>>64887
Fair enough, though obviously pacing is a facet too. Depending on the amount of content being worked through, 11-13 episodes might be too rushed or chopped up, while 24-26 could also be too much spread for what is really warranted. And beyond that, there are shows where while they might be divided seasonally for release, are a continuous flow, wherein each "season" makes no effort for self-containment. Whether that works out well or not in the long run can vary, of course.
While on the topic of GXS, I was honestly surprised with how each episode felt longer than the twenty-two or however many minutes time allotted to it, and not in a bad way either. Rather than dragging, it was more that each episode felt like it got a lot done, and without rushing either.
>since animation that drags for too long tend to attract fillers and go up and down in quality.
Obviously such can also affect anime original series, but I feel filler to be more a problem for an adapted work. Assuming it's not meant as a quick advertisement for the original medium (and thus not even meant to get that far), it runs the risk of catching up too quick, and sometimes multiple times, which only leads to problems. Dragging parts out longer than the original pacing to fill time, filler episodes, filler seasons, deviating from the original work entirely for an eventual anime only ending. And that's if it's not just dropped entirely part way through. While I suppose in the aftermath, should it actually finish properly eventually, newcomers can skip the filler (hopefully it's too ingrained into the actual plot; added characters and such), but it still causes issues during the airing when all most fans want is for the plot to resume (and likely pushes some to just go to the manga instead), and finding like half the adaptation's episode count can be chopped out isn't necessarily a good thing to discover.