But anyway, one thing that has changed is the episodes that we watched for Evangelion.

That is true. I did end up dipping my toes into some production notes.

Because you told me these are where the episodes start getting good. I'm not calling you a liar,

but I was curious as to why. And I found out due to some production notes, some, like, anime-based journalism.

Hanime-based journalism is such a sentence.

And journalism about anime, because anime-based journalism sounds like a journalism being done by a 30-year-old woman who looks 12.

Yes.

So I found out that, you know, obviously when this show gets pitched,

Ano submits a document that that is supposed to cover the show.

And that covers every plot point from episode one to episode 24 when it ends, right?

However, he decided at episode 12 that he wasn't going to follow it anymore.

And this is something of a problem because obviously as production is going on,

people are working along the idea that they're following this document.

So pre-production has begun on a lot of this stuff.

Then they have to throw it all out.

And starting, and he comes up with this after episode 12 is done.

Yep.

So it creates a constant unrelenting production crunch from episode 12 till the end of the series.

And he was rewriting things after they were done and even like recorded.

He was rewriting plot points after they were animated and shit like that. And as a writer

currently working on a book of which I had to completely rewrite the ending, I fully understand

where Arano is coming from. However, I do not have a team of animators having to wait for me to come up

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