The Disappointing Animation Quality

@MahiaErebeaNegi whoever funds the anime gets executive decisions, related profits, etc. It is 100% kadokawa or one of its subsidiaries (dengeki, fantasia, mf bunko) fault. The director, studio etc is just the fall guy. The producers wanted a studio quick and willing to under budget the production.

Hot game studio took over the production committee after dal iii finished. Judt check wikipedia or the iv or v official website. Since they fund the entirety of the anime, they now get all the profits.

Dal made geek toys famous so they could get more talent, offers, contracts. But dmdp, ningen, liar liar etc obviously don't have the same high end producers.

Kadokawa no longer lists dal on their reports not because dal isn't profitable (it clearly is to go on that long) but because they have effectively lost most of the rights to the franchise.

Similarly saekano, primary producer was aniplex, not kadokawa. Therefore it had high end production values and was a box office hit.

Kadokawa has mishandled a lot of their properties. Konosuba spinoff bombed hard because kadokawa thought japanese fans would blindly throw 40k yen at 12 filler episodes just because they had megumin. They sold under 1k discs which lost them massive amounts of money. Now kadokawa has to re-release konosuba s1, 2, movie discs and old figures.