>>44240127I don't think Yajima would even be that protective. I just don't see it to be like that. Either I don't think you know or just forgot in general but not all of the Serena episodes were even directed by Yajima. The Serena focused episodes were all directed by Yū Uchida, Kazuomi Koga, Ken'ichi Nishida, Takenori Kawada, Yūji Asada, Kentarō Yamaguchi, Daiki Tomiyasu, Takuo Suzuki, Kiyoshi Matsuda, Fumio Maezono, Masahiko Watanabe, Maki Kodaira, Masahiro Sekino, Jun Owada, and Tomoya Takahashi. The only episode Tetsuo Yajima ever directed is XY&Z episode 47. I don't even know why all the hate for Tetsuo Yajima to begin with, and it seems to me like he got the blame for Iris not coming back if I remember correctly. Not every series can be directed overall. A lot of episodes in a series will always have different directors. So no, it's not about overall series direction.
Didn't mean to ramble, but you get the point.