>>460534>but when a series becomes too popular, that editorial oversight often disappearsProbably unpopular opinion, but a good example of this is the latter parts of the Sailor Moon manga - it suffers from a lot of pacing issues, a lot of "tell, don't show" moments and ideas being introduced but not expanded upon
it's especially noticeable in the reboot movies, since they practically used the manga panels as storyboards. It was clear that they realized Naoko was producing gold so they went from helping her with pacing and holding back some of her nonsensical ideas to just letting her do whatever she wants.
though tbh I'm still a little bit sad that Sailor Moon didn't get to keep the gun she was posing with in some late stage concept art kek