

After many years of attributing the wild ups and downs of anime quality-even within singular projects-to fluctuating budgets alone, the discourse has gradually shifted towards the importance of scheduling. There has been an uptick in interest in anime’s production circumstances, enabled by information about these matters being more readily available than ever to non-Japanese speakers in the first place. It’s a complex balance fraught with misunderstandings, and even lies by exploitative companies protecting the marketability of their products.

Anime’s production schedules, the wellbeing of its creators, and the quality of their work are deeply interconnected.
