This trope emphasizes the fact that the plot is shortened.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Pragmatic Adaptation: "We're cutting out this subplot because there's no way we can get an orangutan to play the pipe-organ."
Compressed Adaptation: "We're cutting out this subplot because we really don't think people are going to want to watch a seven hour movie all in one go."
Edited by MrDeath
To the editor who deleted Inuyasha Kanketsuhen from here with the comment "Kanketsuham only covers what was left out of the original Inuyasha TV series.": what difference does that make? The fact remains that it covers the events of the final 20 tankōban volumes of the manga in only 26 episodes. The tankōbans generally have about 10 chapters each, so that means a ratio of 200 manga chapters to 26 episodes, which works out to an average of 7.7 chapters per episode. (Taking it further, each episode is about 26 minutes, therefore Kanketsuhen is about 676 minutes long total, which equals 11 hours and 16 minutes, which works out to 17.75 manga chapters per hour.) That is very compressed compared to most manga-to-anime adaptations, especially the first Inuyasha anime series. (That series covered the events of the first 36 manga volumes in 167 episodes, which works out to an average of 2.2 chapters per episode and 5 chapters per hour.) I'm putting it back.
Was this just created to be The Same as Adaptation Distillation, But Not Good? I get the proposed distinction - cutting stuff out versus shrinking it down - but I doubt that any adaptation can be entirely classified as one or the other (I mean, they're the only two options available for cutting down a script), and they both have obvious value judgements.
Edited by johnnye
What's the difference between this and a pragmatic adaptation? I'm new to troping, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious.
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