Saiki really took the brunt of the expensive spritework, he was made an ancestor of Ash so they could make him a head/pallete swap and then made his "naked boi" form super limited.
A third for the "arc finale bosses being underwhelming", but I'll blame the spritework for that because otherwise I do think the tar monster Shadow Dio design could've been good if it was more fleshed out.
A third for the "arc finale bosses being underwhelming", but I'll blame the spritework for that because otherwise I do think the tar monster Shadow Dio design could've been good if it was more fleshed out.