Longtime series and studio chief director Akiyuki Shinbo highlighted the first episode, which she directed, as being particularly interesting to him.
[7] Following the end of production on Magia Record, Yoshizawa took a break from directing duties and only contributed storyboards through 2022 and 2023, with the exception of supervising animator and first-time director Hiroto Nagata's opening for The Quintessential Quintuplets~.
Shinbo relied on Yoshizawa for her art design sensibilities and instilled changes to the series from her predecessors.
[1] Yoshizawa has also prominently made use of unconventional materials not often used in televised anime such as paper cutouts, analog drawings, and hand-made puppets.
[1] Christopher Farris of Anime News Network considered her to have given the series a "fresh", new, and "active" look from Itamura's long directorial reign.