The more I think about it, the more I think the budget for season 4 was misspent when it came to the character designs.
For starters, you're telling me it was absolutely necessary to redesign the Osamodas King, someone who already had a perfectly good design they keep using nonetheless, even though (webtoon aside) he only had a few minutes of screentime and a handful of lines, and the fandom doesn't care all that much about him in the first place?
Or how about the fact that they also redesigned the Prince of Brâkmar? I get it was probably to highlight how he was now king (if my memory doesn't fail me), but considering the overall aesthetic doesn't change all that much, I can't help but find it unnecessary.
Not to mention how they introduced Astra and her wife (a fact that I adore, don't get me wrong. Literal lesbian queens for the win) for the exact same purpose: just a few minutes of screentime.
Come on! This is a reoccurring pattern!
You're telling me The Assembly introduced rulers who weren't even part of the Council of Twelve back in season 2 just to really hammer in the fact that the Eliatropes are unwelcomed outsiders, but Ankama couldn't afford to give Eva her Kickstarter design or to create a proper wedding dress for Amalia?
What a waste of money, in my opinion...
