it was either the rights couldn't be negotiated until later and then they did the movie, or the higher-ups went "no let's make a movie out of Disappearance, draw out the second season somehow"
My impression is that it's less about rights or top-down bad decisions and more that they made a call to patch over a late change in direction and thought it would be funnier and work better than it turned out to
Yeah, early promotion material indicated that S2 would adapt Disappearance, but instead, it ended up adapting all the stuff from books 1-3 (and short stories set within) that S1 had skipped.
The thing about that video that gets me, thinking back to it experiencing the whole thing
At a certain point, like. By the third episode at least, you had to know what they were doing. People rampaging for weeks going “THE NEXT EPISODE BETTER NOT BE ENDLESS EIGHT”
I was over here like, “you guys know this is going to be eight episodes by now, right.”
It's an AU spinoff, and people wanted season 3. It's by Satelight, and people wanted KyoAni even though by then they'd ended their partnership with Kadokawa. And we weren't getting new LNs at that point, either.
Like I don't necessarily mind animated fanfic on principle but there are just some themes I really hate about Yuki-chan and at least Endless Eight had any lighting experiments at all
Yuki-chan isn't perfect or anything (and it does rankle me to see official spinoffs referred to as "fanfic"), but it wouldn't be so hated if it weren't released at a time when it was all we were getting. It needs to be treated like a weird AU spinoff, not as a poor substitute for season 3.
At a certain point, like. By the third episode at least, you had to know what they were doing. People rampaging for weeks going “THE NEXT EPISODE BETTER NOT BE ENDLESS EIGHT”
I was over here like, “you guys know this is going to be eight episodes by now, right.”
But I’m a broken person.