How many chapters for a series/stories should have?

[HyperTurboFox]

What is the best amount of chapters, a series should have.
From Beginning to End

Is it's 12 Chapters?! 24 Chapters?!

100+ Chapters?!

Ask me in the comment section

 

[SwordLAAAA]

depends on the story, obviously

 

[Cris_Agev]

10 is a nice number, I like it.

 

[nyka]

I've been wondering this as well. I watch a lot of anime that ends up having like 13-56 episodes. Longer series often feel like they are broken down into story arcs but a lot of the single arc stories seem to generally get 13 episodes. I'm not saying that a chapter always neatly mirrors an episode's length...but I do sort of vaguely use that notion with a grain of salt depending on story needs. How many major events or let's say arc are happening in the story? How many do you need to tell it? 10 is a perfectly fine number of chapters if you feel like your whole story can be told in only 10. Honestly if 10 feels like a stretch then a story might as well become a short story or a novelette. If you have a lot of characters and lore and major points in your story though? Then you might want to trend above 10 possibly! I mean pace is up to you too; really all of it is! I'm just kind of thinking aloud a bit here since I've also been thinking about chapter lengths and story lengths lately.

 

[KaiserMk7]

There really isn't such a thing as a good baseline or rule of thumb here.

 

[Yousef]

Are you asking for your own writing? Because if so, you should write what you want.

 

[ciro64]

I'm not a book reader, but I saw a few series/anime that was good for a while but then started overstaying its welcome by repeating itself, exaggerating and dragging things over when it could just have wrapped up sooner and be remembered by me more fondly.

This depends on the kind of story. If you want to write a big one, then you gotta setup for such. You got to find a way to keep it interesting, refreshing and consistent for that length. Some narratives might fit better in fewer chapters.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

It depends on the popularity, the season and also the quantity because the minimum is 8 episodes and the maximum is 26 or more, although per season it is usually 13, 14 or 16.