Child object ignores transform animation in parent object

So the player character has an animation where they swing a sword. The player character has a plane as a c$$anonymous$$ld object to project the sword effects by changing its materials during the animation and rotating. The c$$anonymous$$ld object plane shows that its animating fine in scene view and game view w$$anonymous$$le editing, but on runtime the plane object does not rotate nor change its transform like it does outside of runtime. What's goin on here?

https://youtu.be/pLeSC3NlY3c

Notice how in the video, the sword effects rotates in scene view, but during runtime it resets to the plane's original position and remains static and doesn't move. The only t$$anonymous$$ng the effects plane object does as expected is change materials.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance