A committee for an anime like Demon Slayer includes: A toy company (Bandai), a publisher (Shueisha), a streaming service (Crunchyroll/ABEMA), and a record label (Sony Music). They pool risk. The animation studio is just a hired gun.
The world is just living in it.
The industry runs on ( Weekly Shonen Jump , Morning , Young Magazine ). These are phone-book-thick magazines printed on recycled toilet-paper-grade newsprint. A new mangaka (artist) works 16-hour days, 7 days a week, for a serialization that could be canceled by reader survey scores in 10 weeks. A committee for an anime like Demon Slayer