>>55590892Nah you got me fucked up now, listen here retard
You're well aware that changes like this are made before the episodes come out, yes?
My point is that they drafted the scripts for "season 2" well in advance of their airing, but they weren't satisfied with the end result as the episodes came out
I have it on relatively good authority (by way of the animator tu yong ce) that episodes for PM23 are being produced from the start of animation to airing in the ballpark of 3 months, at least during the period of late 2023 when the new OP came out that he worked on
This means that, given a grace period of an extra month just in case, they have a pivot period of roughly 4 months if things aren't going well
My first scenario is based primarily on things we already know; namely that Storyriders HAS mostly fucked off already, with the swap to PM19 pacing
This complete departure from the story they were constructing is a big deal; perhaps they saw how the screenplays for season 2 were turning out from batch to batch, and weren't happy/interested
Considering that we ARE approaching the one year mark, maybe they decided to just leave
The issue with my theory is fundamentally that we don't know WHY they stepped back to begin with, and if I'm actually onto something or just talking out of my ass
Sure, a few buffer episodes here and there as was the case in Season 1 is fine, but they're pretty much gone ALREADY
And we'll never really know, aside from it probably being a directorial decision
I don't think Sato himself would decide to take his guys off the show unless things were really bad
As you said, though, and as I posted here
>>55590892 prior to your spergout, it's entirely possible that Storyriders is doing the new arc, and that this was all part of the plan all along
If that's the case, though, then that isn't necessarily good either; it means that they crashed the pacing of the show in order to match the DLC release, which sucks and was poor decision making