>>715230856Indirectly related, you kinda gotta play games like that, it seems to me. IE: you make enough fuck-you money, you get enough leeway to make the passion project if you push for it. Until then, you're unlikely to be trusted to go for it.
It's a testament to how much of a runaway hit madoka was, that they got rebellion out just two years later. Even then they had to pad the way with two synopsis movies first.