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The story behind Super's production is actually insane. When Resurrection "F" did well in theaters in April 2015, Toei wanted a new Dragon Ball TV series to capitalize on it... for July 2015. Not even three fucking months of pre-production. To put it in perspective, an anime is typically planned well over a year in advance, an episode takes about eight months to finish while being worked on with other episodes. So you'll have production for episode 1 of a series airing in July 2015 start around November 2014 so you'll be done by the time the anime is ready to air. You'll have rotating staff contributing every ~six episodes.
This was so last second, Toei's original series that they planned for that Sunday 9:30 AM time slot on Fuji TV was Digimon Adventure tri., and they instead did that as a series of six movies. Production was in a constant meltdown, they didn't even have new story ideas which is why the first two arcs are dragged out adaptations and filler episodes. The actual staff who was tasked with working on it was actually decent, some of Toei's heavier hitters, but they just could not manage with the schedule, especially since they still had series like One Piece, Precure, and Digimon to be working on. The stories go that the staff didn't take any holidays, they worked endless crunch and weekends for years. There were like four series directors in 130 episodes, which is an insane number. One Piece had that many across like 900 episodes, nobody wanted to be on the Super team. By the end, they finally started pulling it together AND got a movie out right after. Don't blame the staff for being lazy, blame Toei for giving them an impossible task. The staff literally had to set aside designated "sacrificial" episodes where they let everything fall apart just so they could buy more time.
