Chekhov MacGuffin wrote:Well, they kind of have to do it. On average, three manga chapters makes two anime episodes, so by necessity a third of the anime episodes need to be reruns or AOs. Also since the manga breaks more than the anime (I think) and sometimes they do 1+ hour specials which off balances the manga/anime ratio futher, they have to do a few additional AO/reruns to make up for it.
This is true except that I'm pretty sure there's more manga chapters per year than anime episodes. Probably not more than 3 more though. Now from what I understand, looking at every manga chapter not in the anime yet and the new plot case that just aired:
With two exceptions, every case is 3 or 4 chapters. There are 10 of those types of cases so that's 20 episodes. There's a 1 chapter case which will somehow be done in one episode I assume and a 5 chapter case that will hopefully be done in 3 episodes. So I assume there will be 24 manga based episodes in 2010.
Also, I am glad to see nothing from the manga in February as I can survive two AOs in one month after the first good plot related case in forever instead of putting AOs after something less interesting.









