Talk:My Little Pony theme song/International versions/@comment-125801-20130402062756/@comment-4531340-20130403204611

Yeah, Wikipedia has a great article on the localization of anime to North America, specifically, the kind of editing that occurred.

Nowadays, anime is hardly shown anyway, and what is is on Adult Swim, so there pretty much aren't any content edits anyway (so for time, they cut down the opening theme and ending theme from 1:30 to 1:00, and remove the NEP entirely). Speaking of Adult Swim, that's the only American network that I can think of that uses the commercial break format used in Japan and the UK: a big break in-between the end of one show and the beginning of another, and one towards the middle of the program (so only one commercial break per program), rather than the standard break format used on most American channels for half hour programs: one break right after the opening theme (especially if it's a cold open), one towards the middle, and one towards the end (I remember the airing of Naruto: Shippuden on Disney XD put commercial breaks right after the opening theme, in the spot where the original Japanese commercial break was, and one final one in-between the ending of the episode and the NEP). Sure, this makes American programming airing in syndication on Adult Swim weird (particularly if one of the commercial breaks Adult Swim cuts out was intended to be a cliffhanger commercial break) but it works wonders for all the anime they air.

Yeah, the only non-4Kids anime that I can think of that isn't airing on Adult Swim right now is Dragon Ball Z Kai, and while that has edits for both content and time (presumably; some of the edits make no sense as content edits), it's released on uncut DVDs - that seems to be standard practice today (edit the anime, if necessary [read: if not airing on Adult Swim] for TV, release it uncut on DVD). Hopefully that's what happens with FiM - all the cut scenes restored (hopefully) for the DVD release.