Twelve-Episode Anime

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See also Eleven-Episode Anime, Thirteen-Episode Anime, and Fourteen-Episode Anime

Series with 12 episodes
See also Category:Twelve-Episode Anime
 * .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet is 12 episodes long, but was also an adaptation of a monthly serial.
 * Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka—twelve episodes plus a Fan Service OAV.
 * Akuma no Riddle is twelve episodes long proper, plus one Beach Episode OVA starring the complete cast.
 * Asobi ni Iku yo! plus an OAV
 * Ben-To
 * Black Blood Brothers
 * Black Lagoon had two seasons of this kind, the second called "The Second Barrage".
 * Blood C
 * Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
 * Boogiepop Phantom
 * Chaos;Head
 * Chu-Bra
 * Cowboy Bebop in its initial airing was 12 stand-alone episodes and a filler "recap" episode, due to it being too violent for its time slot. The rest of the series was made at the time, but they decided to leave out the more violent episodes for the first run.
 * Cubex Cursedx Curious
 * Dancougar Nova: The last half especially feels very rushed and underdeveloped.
 * Dance in the Vampire Bund
 * Darker than Black's second season fits, but not the first season and its 24 episodes.
 * The sequel to Deep Love, Deep Love Host.
 * Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
 * Devil May Cry: The Animated Series
 * Dragon Crisis
 * Ef a Tale of Memories and its sequel Ef a Tale of Melodies
 * El Hazard: The Alternative World
 * Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku
 * Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na Crescent Love is an earlier example of one of August's Visual Novels adapted into a Twelve-Episode Anime.
 * Freezing plus two OVA episodes.
 * Ga-Rei Zero
 * Grenadier
 * The "La Verite" remake of Hanaukyo Maid Tai has 12 episodes. So far, no sign of a second season.
 * He Is My Master (No sequel series yet)
 * All three seasons of Hidamari Sketch: the first has 12, the second has 13, the third 12 again. However, between the DVD-only bonus episodes, and some TV specials broadcast some months after the main series run, the totals are 14, 16 and 14 respectively.
 * Highschool of the Dead plus an OVA episode.
 * Hitohira
 * Ichigo Mashimaro. Two OVA series, one with three episodes, the other with two, were made after the TV series, so there are now 17 episodes of Ichigo Mashimaro.
 * Innocent Venus: unfortunately because of some bad pacing the middle was painfully slow but the later episodes felt too rushed.
 * Iron Man
 * Kaiba
 * Kamen no Maid Guy has one 12-episode season and an OVA.
 * Kamisama no Memochou
 * Kannazuki no Miko, and quite a bit of other works originally created by Kaishaku, for example:
 * Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto.
 * Both UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie TV series.
 * Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora (a.k.a. Shattered Angels).
 * Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl. Including an OVA.
 * Koihime Musou. All 3 seasons have 12 episodes. Including 3 OVAs.
 * Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? plus two OVA episode.
 * Kure-nai Including two OVAs.
 * Kuroshitsuji II
 * Kurozuka
 * Legend of Himiko
 * Loveless. The manga has 9 volumes, still ongoing.
 * Mahoromatic got 12; its sequel series (subtitled Something More Beautiful) got 14.
 * Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto
 * Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora
 * Makai Senki Disgaea, the anime based loosely on the game.
 * Manabi Straight! plus an OVA, which takes place between the 6th and 7th episodes, to make this series 13 episodes when counted.
 * Maria Holic Including a second season, Maria Holic: Alive, which also has twelve episodes.
 * Mariasama ga Miteru and its second season Maria-sama ga Miteru Haru.
 * MM!
 * Mononoke
 * Which is itself a spinoff of twelve-ep show Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales (and more specifically, the four-episode story "Bakeneko" at the end).
 * Najica Blitz Tactics
 * Nanatsuiro Drops
 * Nightwalker: A unique case, as the first four episodes were originally released as an OVA series. The following eight episodes were then aired as a television series.
 * Ninin ga Shinobuden, a.k.a (Ninja Nonsense and 2x2=Shinobuden)
 * Please Teacher and Onegai Twins are twelve-episode anime, with one-episode OVAs each.
 * Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai! has twelve broadcast episodes plus four OVA episodes.
 * Potemayo
 * Princess Princess ran for 12 episodes following three of the five volumes of manga. No word yet on whether the manga sequel, Princess Princess Plus will be getting an anime adaptation.
 * Prism Ark
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica also had two movies, the Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie, which recaps all the twelve episodes, and the Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Rebellion.
 * Queen's Blade
 * Rocket Girls
 * Rozen Maiden and its sequel series, Rozen Maiden Traumend.
 * Sacred Seven
 * All three of Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei's seasons are 12-13 episodes long.
 * School Days, along with two OVAs
 * Shingetsutan Tsukihime
 * Sola
 * So Ra No Wo To
 * Taishō Baseball Girls
 * Umi Monogatari
 * Uta Kata, which also had a postlude OVA.
 * Venus Versus Virus had 12 episodes...but ended on a Cliff Hanger.

Series with 11, 13, or 14 episodes
For series with 11 episodes, see Category:Eleven-Episode Anime. For series with 13 episodes, see Category:Thirteen-Episode Anime. For series with 14 episodes, see Category:Fourteen-Episode Anime.

Odd cases
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 * Asagiri no Miko has 26 episodes, but each is under a quarter of an hour long, half the "standard" episode length.
 * The same goes for the Galaxy Angel anime.
 * And Steel Angel Kurumi
 * Same goes for Cromartie High School, though they generally broadcast them in pairs.
 * As well as Risky☆Safety, but it has 24 episodes.
 * The anime series of Black★Rock Shooter is eight episodes long, and was aired in NoitaminA. If you count the OVA (which was released two years earlier and is in a separate continuity), then it had nine episodes in total.
 * The 2019 anime adaptation for the novels of the Boogiepop series, Boogiepop and Others, had 18 episodes.
 * As mentioned in the main article, many live-action Western shows are adopting this, such as NBC's Chuck. During the 2007-2008 season, however, a lot of this was the unintentional result of that season's Writer's Strike.
 * Shiki has 22 episodes plus an OVA episode 20.5.
 * The fourth season of Slayers ending up being split into two 13-episode seasons instead of one 26-episode season. Of course, Revolution leaves a lot of plot threads for Evolution-R to pick up, but season five did get a new OP and ED...