Would you stop watching anime on AS if they edited them more and spliced episodes?

[Sketch]

I've read the suggestion that Adult Swim would get more viewers for various anime if they were edited to cut out "the boring parts" leaving only the "best" moments of the show.

Part of the editing would be to time cut episodes in order to keep the full OP and/or ED.

The other part is simply "trimming the fat" having Adult Swim editors or perhaps editors from the companies providing the anime cutting things down to improve pacing and drop the "less important" moments.

We have the example of Dragon Ball Kai and maybe it's hypocritical to say I trust the Japanese producers to edit down a work more than I trust people who did not make the show to do it but that's how I personally feel about the prospect of any anime to air on Adult Swim getting edited by WS staff or the anime distributors.

I will outright say why I'm opposed to that outright. I'm of the opinion that no one should dictate what part of an anime I do or do not get to experience other than the producers of the show. That should be entirely up to me once the production staff have made their own calls on what to keep and what to cut but they are not above criticsm for choosing to keep something or leave something. I may or may not stop watching anime on Adult Swim if they pulled that kind of tom foolery. Depends on if I still enjoy the show edited, I've enjoyed edited anime plenty of times but usually for violence edits not "dull moment" edits. IMO if they should just avoid shows that have bad pacing or stick out for being too immature to air next to Cowboy Bebop and Bleach (and Bleach is setting that bar pretty low at times).

So the question is would you stop watching anime on Adult Swim if they took it upon themselves to have anime re-cut to change the pacing and cut out precieved "dull moments"? Does that sort of thing at all matter to you or do you even like the idea of "trimming the fat" and think it would improve the ratings and help the action block?

As a secondary question. What do you value more, getting as much of the actual episode on the air as possible or keeping the full OP and ED?

[GWOtaku]

Outside of skipping clip show episodes, no. Especially if it's for the sake of making time for an opening, of all things. There are times they can be cool but they're not important. The meat of the show is what matters. When you buy a movie "I sure am getting some great packaging for that price!" is not the first thing you say.

On the more ambitious level, I'd imagine it's also easier to pick up TV programs that are good enough to not need such editing in the first place.

I should note though that despite the arbitrary exclusion of entire episodes, this didn't stop me from enjoying Vision of Escaflowne way back.

[AndrewSP]

I would probably stop watching, as I'd rather see the show as originally intended (minus cuts mandated by Standards). We're way past the days where we need to chop up a show to put it on television. As for time cuts, as much as I hate it, it's definitely better to cut stuff off or speed up the opening or closing credits rather than the actual episode. It's one reason I've always liked Adult Swim more than say, Sci-Fi's old Anime block, where they cut small pieces out of the middle of episodes of Gurren Lagann and inserted commercials all over the place. Adult Swim is doing things right in that regard (even FUNimation Channel inserts an extra ad break in the second half, why can't they put that at the other standard Japanese CM time?), though I hate that ad time is gradually increasing. I haven't seen GITS or Bebop's ending credits in so long...and I was so happy seeing Big O's ending credits on April 1.

Clip shows I can see easily being skipped, though. Like (for example) Chobits, where the Geneon DVD release put the recap episodes all on a separate disc. While they had "new" material, they're unnecessary and could be cut out of a TV run altogether.

(I only used Chobits since I couldn't think of a recent show that may air on AS/Toonami that had one of those types of episodes)

[Paradox295]

I'd be against removing bits of the actual show. But if they, say, got rid of the "Previously/Next time on DBZ/Bleach" bits and Openings and Endings to string together, say.. 2 or 3 episodes into an hourlong block, do it.

[The Man in Black]

I feel like I have the same answer here as "I'm not going to skip Naruto or Bleach filler" Like I've told some of my friends countless times, If I'm going to watch an anime I'm going to watch all of it, even if that means things that weren't originally in a manga or something. I will say however that Bleach filler might be pretty bad if my friend's comparison to "what if right in the middle of the fight against Cell they cut to the Garlic Junior saga without almost no explanation except "oh this happens at a different point" or something"

[Daikun]

Skipping recap episodes? Yes, please. AS has had no problems doing this before with Kikaider and Wolf's Rain. Can you imagine the agony of having to sit through 4 weeks' worth of recapping in a 26-episode show? They did a wise move by skipping those episodes.

Skipping filler? Probably not a good idea. I'm pretty sure some people might like it.