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NEWS: Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Anime's 5th Episode Delayed to August 13

A shame. A friend has been teasing me that the next episode would spoiler[introduce quite a popular character.]

Edit: added spoiler. Errinundra.

flamemasterelan wrote:

el_morris wrote: Only four episodes in and we already had a 1-day delay for west audiences and now a week delay, how bad really is the production status? The two incidents you just listed are directly connected. The delay last week was because they finished that episode past the wire to get it out to streaming services in time, which meant they had less time to work on this week's episode. This isn't really evidence of how bad a production is going, so much as it is the consequence of one week's production being off. Whether or not they'll manage to get things back on track after this delay will show how bad the production really is.

Shaft did not do any work for any episode 2. Animation, background, compositing, coloring... nothing.

TheSleepyMonkey wrote:

flamemasterelan wrote: el_morris wrote: Only four episodes in and we already had a 1-day delay for west audiences and now a week delay, how bad really is the production status? The two incidents you just listed are directly connected. The delay last week was because they finished that episode past the wire to get it out to streaming services in time, which meant they had less time to work on this week's episode. This isn't really evidence of how bad a production is going, so much as it is the consequence of one week's production being off. Whether or not they'll manage to get things back on track after this delay will show how bad the production really is. Shaft did not do any work for any episode 2. Animation, background, compositing, coloring... nothing.

They do have a credit for the episode if the credits can be believed.
https://imgur.com/a/OQ8IKZK

Not sure if this is an error on the part of the people compiling the credits (which wouldn't surprise me if they're delaying episodes this early), or if SHAFT simply didn't have as much involvement as they would in episode 3. But they are credited for episode 2 as episode co-producers. Heck, they're present for episode 4 as well.

Even if the credit for episode 2 is false, that just goes to show how much of mess Bug Films are in when they can't keep stuff like this straight. I mean when you're already switching out the studio who does the final edit of your episodes after only three have aired, you know you're in trouble.

Philmister978 wrote:

TheSleepyMonkey wrote: flamemasterelan wrote: el_morris wrote: Only four episodes in and we already had a 1-day delay for west audiences and now a week delay, how bad really is the production status? The two incidents you just listed are directly connected. The delay last week was because they finished that episode past the wire to get it out to streaming services in time, which meant they had less time to work on this week's episode. This isn't really evidence of how bad a production is going, so much as it is the consequence of one week's production being off. Whether or not they'll manage to get things back on track after this delay will show how bad the production really is. Shaft did not do any work for any episode 2. Animation, background, compositing, coloring... nothing. They do have a credit for the episode if the credits can be believed. https://imgur.com/a/OQ8IKZK Not sure if this is an error on the part of the people compiling the credits (which wouldn't surprise me if they're delaying episodes this early), or if SHAFT simply didn't have as much involvement as they would in episode 3. But they are credited for episode 2 as episode co-producers. Heck, they're present for episode 4 as well. Even if the credit for episode 2 is false, that just goes to show how much of mess Bug Films are in when they can't keep stuff like this straight. I mean when you're already switching out the studio who does the final edit of your episodes after only three have aired, you know you're in trouble.

The animation producer and Bugfilms president Hiroaki Kojima already clarified in his Twitter when episode 2 aired that Shaft's contribution would only begin from episode 3 onwards, so they were only credited mainly to showcase their presence in the long picture, I guess you could say. But none of the individual people (key animators, 2nd KA, in-betweeners, background artists, compositing artists, or even production assistants) in episode 2 were from Shaft at all.