Limit on no. of episodes?

[TML]

I recently saw a comment on another website that "Japanese broadcasting rules require you to end your series at episode 999..." Is that really true? If it were, then it would imply that at the current pace of 40-45 episodes/year, the Detective Conan anime series would be forced to end sometime between 2018-2021, which is 22-25 years after the first episode.

[CarpetCrawler]

There's quite a few shows that have broken that "rule", if that's really true.

[Wakarimashita]

It's rubbish, Sazae-san, Doraemon, Nintama Rantaro and Hoka Hoka Kazoku all have over 1000 episodes.

Look here !

[Kazu]

Never heard about that.

[tengaku squared]

I recently saw a comment on another website that "Japanese broadcasting rules require you to end your series at episode 999..." Is that really true? If it were, then it would imply that at the current pace of 40-45 episodes/year, the Detective Conan anime series would be forced to end sometime between 2018-2021, which is 22-25 years after the first episode.

Your information seems off...but the date of DC ending seems realistic enough.

[Detective Kudo]

I know many shows that broke this rule

[kaRAN]

i too nkow many of them