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Originally Posted by scr
What's with the overall spike in the quality of moving animation? Because it's the last episode (of this cour)?
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Actually, that's quite likely exactly why. Even if shows are slated for 2 or more cours, the funding and budgeting might well have been split up into each half specifically.
In Japan (like in the US government), if you have a certain budget and you DON'T spend it all before the next quarter, the money doesn't carry over to the next, but is instead considered "wasted" and the next quarter's budget is actually lowered.
(I know this all too well from Japanese government research grants)
So they probably blew whatever leftover cash they had on highering some wannabe ghibli in-betweener. At least the good news about it is that it implies the show is being made within its budget and they aren't having to cut corners instead.