Quote Originally Posted by Death BOO Z View Post
maybe they had to do some last minute editing and record new lines for episode 8?
Universal issues across the anime industry more like. There's more series than ever each season, and the industry as a whole is struggling to keep up. Recaps are back in a big way to allow for some flexibility in the schedules. Or still reeling from the occasional covid delay.

That said, if this was a normal series, we'd actually be at episode 10.5 as of last week, since we got an 85 minute episode "1".