Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1018594-20161020111149/@comment-1251315-20161020123908

Shakhmoot wrote: Just to point out that Hayato Date won't be the series director anymore, the new director is Osamu Kobayashi and he supervised the animation in this episode. That's why the designs are so weird in the start, but you have to use to it because those design will stay for a while at least for this arc... So Date has left the anime now that the series has essentially concluded... presumably he'll come back for Chapter 700 (whenever they want to air that). Oh well, it was sorta expected to happen...