>>56665415Have no clue, here’s the direct quote
Dai Soto wanted Liko to be similar to Nezuko from Demon Slayer or Elsa from Frozen, and changed the double protagonist direction it initially had to specifically being more focused on Liko, so little girls can relate.
Unfortunately he did this and as a result had to rewrite the first 12 episodes of the show which led to the delay. GameFreak were obviously not happy about it, as you can see from the dev letters.