Holy shit can't believe what has happened to this franchise after the phenomenal season 1.
The manga has more animation than the fucking anime. It's crazy out there.
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JC Staff is just not a very good studio. Or, I should say, JC Staff is not up to the standard of Madhouse who did Season 1 and have almost never made a bad show ever.
The S tier studios of the industry are Trigger, Madhouse, KyoAni and Bones. The A tier studios are Mappa, Wit, Ufotable, Orange. Everyone else produces really mixed results.
JC Staff will never ever ever meet the standards that Madhouse puts out. They're just world class. If you gave the Frieren manga to JC Staff instead of Madhouse nobody would even be talking about Frieren, yet given to Madhouse it successfully knocked Full Metal Alchemist off the top of all ratings after sitting at #1 for 15 years.
JC Staff have never financially recovered from that one joke in Joshiraku
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JC Staff is a slop factory that is able to produce a large quantity of anime fast and cheap. I'm sure to production committees they're seen as a semi reliable option but they're not going to be able to produce something above serviceable when they have so much on their plate and are under tight deadlines.
A-1 is also an A tier studio imo. They have been making bangers for years now. Really excited about Fate/Strange Fake.
Yeah maybe I'm being a little harsh on them. I really feel like Darling in the FranXX really shows just how leagues apart they are from Trigger though because you can instantly spot the scenes and episodes directed by Trigger compared to A1 and it really shows them up. If Trigger made that whole show it would be enormously better.
A-1 upped their game in the last 5-6 years. Before that they had quality issues across shows. Now they mostly have production issues like with Nier.
They also take a lot of projects which makes gap between seasons too big. 86 suffers from it and Solo Leveling will too afaik because they don't have slots.