Three years of anime club debates, one realization about pacing

Back in 2021, my local group in Austin spent five straight meetings arguing about whether a certain mecha show was too slow. Last month I rewatched it alone and realized they were right, but for the wrong reasons. It wasn't the action gaps that killed it, it was the recap episodes stuffed in at episode 14 and 22. We wasted all that energy on tone when the real issue was structure. Now I check episode counts and filler placement before I even start a series. Has anyone else found that studio habits, like 26 episode seasons with forced recaps, ruin pacing more than any creative choice?

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