Not that long ago, no one between those in the trenches up to licensors had confidence it would get finished. To wrap it up somehow, they had to drop the standards they'd been shooting for since the start and basically lock away the director & delegate to "efficiency" people (a dirtbag in this case)

Wouldn't it be funny if ep2 of their current series was outsourced overseas too, and also their disastrous project's emergency button to get it finished was one of the most infamously uncaring, cynical directors in the industry. Just posing this hypothetical to explain janky Junji Ito you may see