>>55577650Basically a accumulation of Production problems, shitty direction and just asspulls. Most of which had to be cross-referenced to Tomioka's statements (Guy who wrote it) and waybackmachine to look at the employee count.
>Be Atsuhiro Tomioka>Get charged with writing the climax to a 25 year old journey>One of the biggest marketing campaign gets started promoting all the candidates>Inhouse team Kato of OLM is at it's limits (They even used stock images of an IRL mic during the Raihan match ep)>Only write the Manlet's matches to not completely burn out your team>Producer-sama goes "Fuck no, do ALL of them">Team Kato implodes and gets heavily outsourced at the start, Tomiyasu vanished from the credits as chief director of JN coincidentally around the time of the first M8 round>First time after over a decade were Recap episodes produced, alongside Goh and Koharu episodes IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CLIMAX, to create breathing room for the M8 staff>Two breaks in quick successions>4th Recap started the harassment of the animators online>Direct PR communication between staff and viewerbase essentially died or vanished because one animation director tried to calm things down in the worst way possible.>Production was so badly rushed that they fell partially back on Tomioka's original plan to sketch the other battles for Diantha vs Leon>4 Recaps near the end of Journeys>All of the flame and shitshows gets buried under a hatch to start a pretentious front because the kid won in a even more shitty written battle for kudos and good boy points>Barely gets touched on anymore except for nostalgia farming and talking about what a shitshow it was in total. 
