I think it's possible that this bit of in between was entirely done so they could improve for the next arc. It also seems like they could have been experimenting with the show a bit too (this is all speculation mind you), I mean we had some interesting things like 44 almost being entirely outsourced, it seems like episode 45 might have been an experiment to see if Kitano could be a relief supervisor and 46 was an action heavy Yashima episode with quite a few animators, they could have also done some stuff with 42 and 43 that was less obvious as well, but I guess it is worth noting that those episodes had a fairly large amount of animators for the kinds of episodes they were. The biggest question is how much time was spent on the scripts and storyboards, if they were done rather quickly then that definitely lends more credence to the idea that these in between episodes exist solely so they could try to improve for the next arc.dhaval_dongre wrote:Regarding the minor shuffling of the staff, wasn't this miniarc supposed to be a part of that. Because lets be honest I think they made this entire miniarc which lasted a month, so that the key animators/supervisors can get some additional time to work on the important episodes, right ?
Either way the NEP looks incredibly polished and there is a lot of animation going on, so fingers crossed that just like how we saw the quality go up from the F arc to the Champa arc we'll be seeing another bump in quality.
But with this show it's best to not expect something like this, but it doesn't hurt to hope.
