PurpleGeth said:
The entire episode is handled by Hathaway's team. He prob wasn't handed an individual invite but was more like an (inhouse) outsourcing job while the team waits for the pre-production of the next movie to be done.

losingMind said:
it's great to know he will appear on Hathaway movies again, though I'm a bit confused about Okiura's contract, is he inhouse Sunrise now?

PurpleGeth said:
it would appear so, something like that

kViN said:
Several people involved have publicly praised Keisuke Kasai's role in this episode. He was only credited as assistant PA, but he's a member of Hathaway's team and the one who pushed for the inclusion of all these super high-profile animators from that team and somehow made it work. Admissions that this was all made with no schedule whatso-fucking-ever too but well, that's G-Witch for you https://twitter.com/ta_akitsu/status/1606931843286458370

Marketani said:
to be fair this many veterans working on a show is often the animation producers doing rather than a production assistant(an assistant one at that) but youre right it is often overlooked

kViN said:
Yeah, given that he wasn't even *the* PA (or rather wasn't one of them, they have multiple ones per episode which makes sense in a chaotic scenario) and how hard everyone is saying he worked to somehow make this possible with no time to speak of, this feels like a pretty extraordinary "someone really wanted this to happen even though it's not really their job nor a natural turn for the production". No disagreeing with the conclusion tho, management staff are unsung heroes.