Also wouldn't surprise me if one of the short-term issues is simply that dubbing for the brand new stuff still isn't quite as fast as usual for the time being with both things understandably taking longer and also even backlog they're still catching up on from last year's delays during the transfer to recording from home. A number of the dubs from last season are even still in progress due to it, when they normally would have finished for a while by now.
Like, in past years before the pandemic, given their efficiency they'd built up, we'd have known by now all the new series that just started a few weeks ago that Funi would be choosing for simuldubbing, but because of the increased lag time even some of the new show pages that list both sub and dub implying upcoming dubs actually haven't started them yet.
For example, The Heike Story, looks like it's on episode 8 already in Japanese but the dub only very recently came out for episode 1. In my memory that feels like almost double the buffer they used to need before everything happened that understandably makes everything take longer. I feel like we were often down to only being 2-4 weeks behind depending on the show before everything happened.
Yeah, this feels like them manipulating the schedule in order to lineup future scheduling or buying time until something else is ready that normally would have been.
Bringing All Might to the feels.
