Are anime openings and endings important for you?

I love listening to them, gives me a new phone tune each week.

OP moreso than ED. Aside from PV's, my first typical impression of an anime is through their OP. Is it generic or well thought-out? Does it suit the genre? Is it coreographed well? These things kind of matter to me. If it's a quality opening and it fits I'm more apt to watch the anime because I assume that the anime has received the same qualities. It doesn't directly influence my drive to watch, or not watch an anime. But, like I said it is typically a first impression. A good ED is always nice, but never necessary. Often I'll enjoy an ending and then skip it and go straight to the next episode.

I don't mind if an anime has a meh Opening/Ending, if its meh i'll skip it after the first time. But when an anime has a really nice OP/ED it means alot i guess

I think the only anime I ever skipped the OP and ED for is Black Lagoon. God those were awful. Amazing series though.

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i'll watch an opening and ending once and then i skip right past them.

The only ED I didn't do this to is Spice and Wolf's

It's not super important to me, like it doesn't make or break an anime for me. I do however extremely enjoy when OP's, and ED's are good I will usually watch / listen to them every episode.

Althought i like them, i oftenly skim them when i get tired, but gotta admit that the epic ones always stick.

OPs and EDs to me have always been pretty independent from the anime itself. If both the ending and the opening are good that's great but I've never thought of them as being fundamentally important to the quality or my enjoyment of something, especially since I tend to skip even the OP/EDs that I do enjoy most of the time. That said if they work to really set the mood like in Ergo Proxy or Monster I think it ends up being a very effective way to leave a lasting impression.

When I watch an anime I always watch the opening first then I don't watch the ending until I get to the last episode then I watch it so that case to me it looks like a play or long show. I watch it when it ends I watch the next one ( or wait a week if they are new) and when the last episode hits bam ED at it finest. If I really like the music I will download to my song pretty much for me they are important.

OPs and EDs are one of those things that make anime, anime. I pretty much always watch them, so I suppose you can say they are important to me.