Pani Poni
In the late 2010s, a number of other creative staff left the studio. Yuki Yase left after directing "The Beheading Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense Bearer" (2016–17), taking production generalizer Kousuke Matsunaga with him to work on "Fire Force" at David Production; Tomoyuki Itamura, who had directed the rest of the "Monogatari" series after Oishi's commitment to "Kizumonogatari", left after the production of "Owarimonogatari II" (2017); Izumi Takizawa, a veteran color designer with the studio since "Pani Poni Dash!", followed Itamura.