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I was more talking animation studio production. Gallop and a lot of its associate studios were attached to NAS. When ADK/NAS left, they left too (makes you wonder if Noh Gil-bo is still around). Meaning shueisha/tv tokyo had to recruit Bridge for animation production.

As for what happened with Rush Duel being made. I do think it influenced that. Shueisha and Tv Tokyo being even more important to yugioh's production probably led to all kinds of marketing and tone decisions.

Doesn't matter much now. Master or Rush duel anime, tv tokyo isn't about to step aside. We might get better animation quality in the future though.