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Bleached revealed to corpos that filler can reach critical mass and negatively affect ratings even of canon arcs so after it got cancelled studios throughout the industry began shifting away from filler and from the eternal longrunner format in general for new adaptions.

Furthermore, studios found that they could spread their staff thinner across multiple one cour animes in a single year than they could going for anime that are 52 eps or more, and recover quicker from disruptions in the production process