Misawa Hiroshi took the storyboard from Gu Xue with a complicated expression. Then he glanced at the storyboard pages on his own desk, where he'd only drawn a few shots, and felt even more conflicted.
Invasion was an original story. Usually, when there was no reference material and all you had was a script, turning the words into images was a huge challenge.
Some anime ended up with questionable quality because the storyboard artist had gotten stuck and taken too long to finish. The other teams couldn't start work, so they had no choice but to wait and wait. By the time the storyboard was done, the production schedule was already incredibly tight, and the rest of the staff had no time to focus on quality.
Even major productions ran into this problem.
But it was hard to solve. The person drawing the storyboard was human, not a machine. You couldn't know when the director in charge of the storyboard would be in good shape or when they'd be struggling. All you could do was try to leave them as much time as possible.
But the schedules for ordinary TV anime were usually short...
It was like an ouroboros. Practically impossible to resolve.
Misawa Hiroshi knew that all too well. That was why he'd started working himself to the bone last night, hoping to finish the storyboard as soon as possible and avoid causing trouble for everyone else. After all, there was still an Anime Mirai project coming up.
He'd been a little worried about Gu Xue's progress. Little Witch Academia was a story she'd come up with herself, so she'd probably already had a clear idea in mind. It wasn't all that surprising that she'd finished the storyboard in one night.
But Invasion was an original story.
He'd only