>>23487303
>But goddamn how come every season since Zi-O can't do a proper year-long draft of the story or the producer meddles in the middle pushing a new worse route for the story.
I know its initial premise was heavily changed during pre-production, but it seems like Saber's staff had already prepared the basic outline of its entire story pretty early on into its run.

I kid you not, the basic outline of Q2's story and the climax of that whole storyline via Xross Saber's debut was laid out in the pages of those throwaway books Touma and Daishinji were reading in the early Avalon arc, which the staff posted scans of in the production blog to let the fans decipher them on their own.

According to an interview, the final boss was originally conceived as a monster sealed in Wonder World, but they decided to put a twist on it and made it the leader of the Sword of Logos, and then they decided to give it another twist and make it Storious instead. Aside from the aforementioned pages teasing his existence, Master Logos made his ominous debut in the Falchion movie that came out early on into the show's run. And they also revealed that Solomon and KR Storious' suits were designed at the same time, so we know that by the time they had decided Master Logos would join the fray, Storious had already been set as the final boss.

They also talked about how Kento was originally supposed to return as Saikou, but then they decided he should become Calibur and created Yuri to fill in that role instead, and Yuri appears in the show as early as episode 7.

The core conflict of the show's second half and the story as a whole had already been somewhat foreshadowed in the very first episode, but it was more explicitly laid out in the final arc of Q1 with them showing us Kento's suffering in the Kurayami's dimension right after his "death", Storious' monologue in pic related, and Kamijou making his whole speech about the fate of the world being set in stone.