According to Sugoi Lite, S5 will be 15 episodes and there won’t be a second cour. I also found info from someone who watched the advance screening of Ep1-2. Ep2 ends at around halfway through Vol 16 when Syr tells Bell that they should escape from the people following them. Based on the pacing Vol 16 will be covered in 3-4 episodes, so that means the 15 episodes will cover the entire arc of Vol 16-18.
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Even though they were kind enough to give us 22 episodes to cover Vol 12-14, we only get 15 episodes to cover Vol 16-18 which has more content. Maybe S4 specially got 2 cours because it aired during the 10th anniversary and Ryu who is a very popular character was the main focus of the season. In addition it was the biggest dungeon arc in the series and the main setting of the series is the dungeon.
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They must have known SS4 would be a big hit while SS5 isn't quite so. That's sad.
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To me 3 episodes for book 16 is pretty little. We know we won't get anything from the orphanage part, which is good chunk I guess.
But from the trailer we know that they didn't skip the cathedral and the boat dinner parts.
I'm feeling they're going to go pretty quick on Hedin's training and in general, cut a lot of dialogue.
I feel like the shortest to cover should be book 18. Even though it is the beefiest volume, it is all fights so, knowing JS Staff, I don't think we're getting more than 3-4 episodes of pure fights. I hope they go for quality over quantity this time.
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Thanks, 15-16 Eps seems right.
There is a lot of padding or bloat in this arc that's near meaningless. I could get LN18 done in 2-3 Eps without cutting much.
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Very interesting cause Re:Zero S3, which is also airing this season, is also doing an uncommon 16 episode run, with the first 8 episodes airing in Fall, and remaining 8 airing in Winter 2025. I can imagine this season will probably be something similar if there will be only 15 episodes, first 7-8 episodes airing first, and then in remaining ones airing later in the Winter season.
Sad we won't get a full 22 episodes, but average length for volumes pre-S4 was about 4 episodes, and it'd be pretty easy to condense alot of the action in Vol. 18, so it feels doable.
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Arifureta S3 which is also airing this fall will be 16 episodes, and seems like it will air episodes weekly without a break so maybe Danmachi S5 will too. It’s a shame Danmachi S5 has less episodes than we hoped for but at least we will see the episodes covering the war game earlier than previously expected.
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No way! That will be too short.
20 episodes is better. Are they cutting budgets on this one?
What do you think?