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I was listening to the original song used as the opening for the first season
of Hakuōki, and I realized that the tempo in the original was slower. I also
listened to Vampire Knight's opening, and READY STEADY GO!, which was used as
one of the openings for the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime, and they too
had slower tempos than I originally thought.

I know that when a song is used as an opening for an anime, it gets cut down
to about 1 minute (in most cases it's about 1/3 of the original). But does the
song also get edited so it plays faster, or is this increase in tempo a result
of the quality being dropped?


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anime-production theme-song
Do songs that get used as openings/endings get sped up as well as cut?


As far as I know, theme songs are picked or created based on the anime's
themes (if the song is appropriate with the anime's story) and its length will
only be cut shorter while the tempo will stay the same (with the exception of
course if the production decided to have another version of the opening to
include in their OST).

However, most anime openings have faster tempo than endings to have that kind
of "excitement feel" or some kind of "momentum" as an anime starts. But it
really depends on the theme of the anime. If the anime has a tragic theme or a
sad love story theme, sometimes production decides to have an opening song
that has lower tempo, or a sad song, but mostly, it will have a faster tempo
than its ending.


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