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The Tatsuki Situation & The Kadokawa Sh*tstorm
Helepolis:
--- Quote from: Stuffman on September 28, 2017, 01:25:53 PM ---basically the summary of the situation is that kemono friends was expected to fail and fail hard, so kadokawa gave the director and his team full creative rights over the show. but since it ended up being super popular, kadokawa wants them back and the director told them to go fuck themselves because they gave absolutely no support in making it a success. so they fired him.
the official line is that Tatsuki's been fired because the director's team made a short little bonus episode (12.1) just for fun and gave it out for free, which pissed kadokawa off because they could've sold it as a bd bonus.
so, just usual evil corporate bullshit.
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While this sounds feasible, it is unfortunately unconfirmed. Many speculations are going around what might have caused this incident. Specifically on Reddit. Though we will never know the truth.
Iced Fairy:
The "misuse of IP" was cited as a official reason for terminating the relationship. Fans are assuming they mean 12.1 just because there's no other IP use that falls under that.
I'm gonna say no matter where the truth lies the company is a bunch of evil shitheaded assholes though for forcing their VAs to serve as a PR shield. That's fucking bullshit no matter how you slice it.