Content:C Episode Guidance

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Framework for OP and ED Episodes - C and S Episode Guidance

This framework describes how OP and ED episodes are identified and classified within AniDB's C and S episode types. Refer to discussion on the AniDB Adv. User forum here for further detail.

General Principles

  1. Higher ranking rules take precedence over lower ranking rules. For example:
    1. Rule 2 will have greater precedence than Rule 4
    2. Rule 2.5.1 will have greater precedence than Rule 2.5.3.
  2. Within the rules, all references to "BD" are also references to "DVD", and vice versa. However, when used in notes, spell out in full for all applicable instances.
  3. Within the rules, all references to "TV" are also references to "HDTV" and "www", and vice versa. However, when used in notes, spell out in full for all applicable instances.
  4. Spell out "Episode" and "Volume" in full; no exceptions.
  5. Short episodes, given their significantly compressed duration relative to standard 20+ minute episodes, are to be assessed on a case-by-case basis. This Framework may be used as a guide, but should not be applied directly to a strict standard without use of discretion.

Rule Framework

1. Default Rule, non-OP/ED =/= C ep

1. Default Rule, non-OP/ED =/= C ep: In general, anything not credited as an OP/ED song is never a C ep; always add as S ep.

Rule 1.1: Missing OP/ED song credits

Rule 1.2: Credits not prescriptively identifying a specific song version


2. Default Rule, OP/ED = C ep

2. Default Rule, OP/ED = C ep: Anything credited as OP/ED is a C ep, unless an exception applies.

Rule 2.1: "BD/DVD lookthrough" rule

Rule 2.2: Ordering of C eps (also applicable to S eps)

Rule 2.3: Eptitle of C eps

Rule 2.4: Episode notes for C eps

Rule 2.5: "Regular OP used as Episode 1 ED" rule


3. Insufficient video =/= C ep

3. Insufficient video =/= C ep: If there is "insufficient video", including a completely black screen during the credit roll, or a single colour gradient background, it is not a C ep (and perhaps not even an S ep).

Rule 3.1: Simple graphics are still C eps

Rule 3.2: Instances of "recap and non-recap screenshots/still-images/boxed-animations" count as sufficient video


4. No opening/ending segment

4. No opening/ending segment: If in the opening/ending, "instead of an opening/ending segment showing up, the main body of the episode plays" (aka, "does the main episode bleed into the OP/ED?"), it is not a C ep and therefore should be added as an S ep; this is known as "no opening/ending segment" and we have tags for it: t6301 -- no opening segment and t6300 -- no ending segment .

Rule 4.1: Recap screenshots and new-content screenshots do not count as "main episode bleeding" ("deemed C episode")

Rule 4.2: Split OP/ED between main ep and OP/ED sequence ("round up" rule)

Rule 4.3: NCOP/NCED no ending segment = S ep

Rule 4.4: No OP/ED segment on TV release, but OP/ED segment added on BD/DVD release

Rule 4.5: OP and ED directly adjacent to each other, without any main episode content between them


5. Anime that use summary or recap type OP/ED for many of its OP/ED

5. Anime that use summary or recap type OP/ED for many of its OP/ED: If an anime, for many of its OP/ED segments, employs summary screenshots or summary video in lieu of a typical repeated OP/ED animation, we add these as C/S eps, but we do NOT create multiple C/S ep minor versions (i.e. Opening 1a, Opening 1b, Ending 1a, Ending 1b, etc) as a result of this.

Rule 5.1: Treat all summary OP/ED videos for the same song as "identical" videos

Rule 5.2: Exception -- Rule does not apply for "one-off usages" of summaries in C episodes


6. Fansub-created chopjob cuts

6. Fansub-created chopjob cuts: If a fansub manually cuts credited sequences, OP sequences, ED sequences, into a chopjob, these are never C eps or S eps. If they are added to the DB, it will be as a P ep.
NOTE This rule is yet to be fully codified.

7. "Loaned" C episodes

7. Fansub-created chopjob cuts: This rule is yet to be fully codified.
NOTE This rule is yet to be fully codified.

Examples

#1: SAO Ep 25 ED -- Recap Screenshots/Animations

#2: Full Moon O Sagashite Ep. 1–6 ED -- Recap Screenshots/Animations

#3: Phantasia Ep 4 ED -- Non-Recap (New Content) Screens

#4: Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Ep. 2 ED -- Simple Graphics Or Graphical Animations On A Black Or Coloured Background

#5: Megalo Box -- Simple Graphics Or Graphical Animations On A Black Or Coloured Background

#6: Tenjou Hen: Utsu No Miko (1990) -- No Formally Credited OP/ED Songs

#7: Nichijou -- Multiple Versions Of Song Zzz, But Credits Are Non-Sepcific

#8: "Things That Look Like OP/ED Should Be Treated As OP/ED"

#9: One-Off Summary ED Vs Majority Usage Summary ED

#10: Weird Example Of Danganronpa Ep 1 ED -- Consider This Case an Ad-Hoc, Non-Precedent Decision


Archived former guidance at Content:Episodes

This is an archive of the former guidance at Content:Episodes.