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Originally Posted by magnuskn
Well, his track record on other recent series hs been very, very spotty. Macross Frontier was an exception, although from what I've heard over the years, he was boxed in by having at least one co-director/writer
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Delta wasn't directed by Kawamori either. It was directed by Kenji Yasuda, with Kawamori credited as chief director which is more like a supervisor role. I don't think that makes much of a difference.
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Originally Posted by magnuskn
so that may have unintentionally saved the series
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I think Frontier was successful because the character interactions were written as a romcom. Sorta like what Aka did with Oshi no Ko, which is a revenge story on paper but has a lot of focus on love triangle with Kana and Akane and all the romcom shenanigans surrounding those two and Aqua. For whatever reason, that kind of thing seems to resonate with some audiences.