Late-night animes (the ones which are one, two cours at most) very rarely have breaks, that's why they usually end up with the planned episode count. There's no sports or other events airing at, say, 2am after all.Basaku wrote:Then why are 13/26/52 season orders such a standard in Japanese media? Every year/quarter has break weeks, holidays and events
Now for daytime/primetime shows, breaks happen. Fuji's Dream 9 in particular always take 3-4 weeks off every year, so for a show to have exactly 52 episodes it would have to "steal" weeks from the next series, making it debut out of season. People who follow yearly Toei shows like Sentai, Kamen Rider or Precure, know this is a no-no. These franchises get 52 weeks, but nowadays each season always ends up with 48-50 episodes, thanks to the breaks, with rare exceptions.
Still, when something happens and a short late-night anime actually has an unexpected break, they end up with no timeslots to air the remaining episode(s), since there's a new show starting the following season that can't be delayed, for the reasons above. Then they are either delayed until a timeslot is available or released straight on home video. This isn't very uncommon.
TL;DR: if Toei has a new show planned to replace Super after a one-year run, then it will have to debut in the first weekend, or second at most, of July, when DBS will be at least three weeks short of 52 episodes. Just to stay with Toei, that's why Saint Seiya Omega (97 episodes) and Toriko (147), for instance, had those uneven episode counts.
