Hey moot,
if you going to keep posting shit from here without even giving credits, might as well fuel the talk about OLM's messy work enviroment or borderline-scum production with pointing out how the producers effectively doubled down on the staff for wanting all the M8 Battles, not just Ash's, to be fully animated. (Use Pic-related from Spoon 2DI's interview with Tomioka:
>>51569464) Plus the stacking animation stretches by Outsiders like Morpeko, Goh and Hop, or Team Rocket, which often filled up the 20 minute mark more than the actual battle, the more it progressed into the M8, to the point of effectively falling partly on Tomioka's initial plan and only showing still sketches of all the unanimated clashes in Leon vs Diantha.
From the looks, and even comments from the staff members during that time-window, it sounds as though they were really really lagging behind the schedule because of the calls to animate all battles in the first round.
We are already one foot into that rabbit hole of OLM's silent front about their status quo at their company, might as well go all in to see if it gets some answers or even an official statement from the producers.
