[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Speaking purely on speculation here, I'd be surprised to learn this show had a tiny budget considering just how good it looks, even today. Maybe they felt the two-parter was super heavy and audiences needed some time to breathe? It does make me think...

The other thing is, even if the budget WAS relatively small, the show's animation is also very prudent about having frequent shots with minimal motion to balance out the really complicated action sequences. I don't get the impression this show was irresponsibly blowing money on anything, so the need for a recap episode really is quite the mystery.

EDIT: Oh, and the most obvious, probable scenario just hit me. Maybe the animation was simply running behind schedule. Although, again, for the reasons I just said, it doesn't strike me as a show that was overworking its animators too hard, but I don't know. There are people way more informed about the Japanese animation industry than I am who could speculate with more authority than me.