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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
Except we don't know how they truly measure success. In sports, the league standings are obvious, and "wins good, losses bad". But as much as fans like to play the "inside baseball" game of comparing BD sales to see if their "team is winning", that's only one part of the equation. We don't see the big picture the way the production committee does. We don't know what their actual budget and sales projections were. So even if the fans decide that it's a failure by whatever limited metrics they have available to them, the director and the director's employer may not see it that way. We see the end-result, but most of the game is actually played behind the scenes.
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I think your argument is overstated. We see enough metrics, and we come across enough viewer feedback, to have a reasonably good idea of whether a show was a success or not (both commercially, and critically).
Besides, if we take your argument to its logical conclusion then it means that absolutely everything KyoAni does becomes beyond criticism, and the studio can never be questioned for
any of its decisions. I find that a very narrow and overly restrictive approach for anime viewers to take to the anime industry.