Ranting About KyoAni Getting Boring

[@Tohlemiach]

The greatest tragedy of KyoAni is that they gave up doing all the Key visual novel adaptations after Air, Kanon, Clannad. I can't imagine what ReWrite and Little Busters would have been like under KyoAni. And now we'll never know.

[@kotofren]

I agree, didn't play Little Busters yet but it would be awesome to have a good adaptation of Rewrite by them.

[@Gooong]

I can understand that from a fan's perspective but from a studio's perspective, popularizing a property and then the most lucrative profit (the merchandising) going to the rights owners must make you feel bitter inside.

[@Tohlemiach]

John Smith not to seem like a dick, but that's the whole fucking point of the video. Yes, got it chief, I do understand that. I'm saying despite that harsh reality, it disappoints me specifically because they stopped doing something that I really liked. Repeating Digi's point doesn't really add anything here.

[@Gooong]

@@Tohlemiach I mean it just sounds like a problem that could be solved with new copyright reform to reflect work put in instead of the power being solely on rights holders. If copyright reform can distribute profit based on work put in it then studios would be searching for great source material and problems with publishing stuff internationally with different rights holders between games and anime like with Macross would be solved

[@cheungch1990]

That's a good thing they gave up on that. Most Key VNs are just sentimentalist borefests.

[@thsudy]

I just want them to make Hentai

[@tonylex3760]

Hibike Euphonium quality ^^

[@badger657]

I would pay for that shit.

[@valac4199]

Oh Wow lolis?

[@valac4199]

Hungry shitbag weebs will never stop

[@hexcodeff6624]

@U2BE Or they don't... ever.

[@Danny81887]

If there's one thing that I think we can all agree on, it's that Myriad Colors Phantom World should've been aborted.

[@golgarisoul]

What a dumpsterfire, holyshit.

[@cheungch1990]

The only KyoAni production that I totally gave up on 3 episodes.

[@joyboy_3165]

Yep

[@ilovecody7514]

R.I.P. the people lost during the recent tragedy...

[@spencersivertson7241]

I personally find KyoAni exciting to watch evolve! Not that I even really enjoy a lot of their newer stuff. It's just neat seeing how each studio changes their identity over time. I think for me the one that was the most dramatic was Ufotable going from wacky, insane, over the top shit to taking more sterile and polished approach with their projects.

[@connorpearson4856]

Sounds like you and I are in the same boat. I could have clarified that I did enjoy Violet, Liz, Koe no Katachi and more of their dramatic stuff. I just wish they but more of an emphasis on fun because I loved K-On, Lucky Star, Haruihi and Dragon Maid so much more. Hell I even enjoyed Phantom World for what it was.

[@Fleshlight_Reviewer]

Haruhi was the last one I enjoyed

[@cross612]

This video hasn't aged well.

[@excalibirb9204]

Well, shit happens y'know

[@ggdc96]

Lemme go to any recent KyoAni video and say this.

[@reyairina5045]

Kyoani are as far from boring as it gets in my opinion. Their shows are literally the most interesting. Doing more in house adaptations gives them more creative freedom and allows them to focus on their artform more which I absolutely love. Modern Kyoani >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Committee slave Kyoani

[@nandotnt5678]

Its burning the building is burning 20 confirmed deaths so far😰😿

[@MapleRhubarb]

I have a much different stance than you on their works, but I do have to say, if KyoAni could get an Oscar or whatever the TV award equivalent is (I don't really watch award shows), they shoot for the Oscar in terms of animation quality every time.

[@eugenebebs7767]

KZbin: notification bell is in double digits Me: Digi is at it again

[@niu-3-]

Fun fact, Violet Evergarden got rejected to even be published at Kadokawa, but got to be the first winner of KyoAni Award. It kinda says something about the qualities of novel published by KyoAni

[@reyairina5045]

Fun fact, You are a lying piece of fucking shit.

[@mizto3291]

@@reyairina5045 no he's not, Violet Evergarden is the first novel to get a Kyoani Award

[@reyairina5045]

@@mizto3291 Do you have brain damage? Yes it won the kyoani award but that novel had been rewritten. It's not the same novel. Also not being published at kadokawa is not a metric for quality. Kadokawa publish plenty of far worse garbage themselves like Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de for example. Kyoani take big risks in publishing and adapting lesser known or more niche works. Most other publishers are not willing to do this.Their recent show Tsurune was a great archery anime but it didn't sell well.

[@mizto3291]

@@reyairina5045 It doesn't exactly change the fact that it won that KyoAni Award. The publishing of Kadokawa doesn't always reflect the quality and how Kyoani chooses an adaptation. If you're going to argue about quality and other characteristics that KyoAni adapts and puts out then I don't think this conversation will get anywhere. Kyoani has had it's fair share of success and I'm quite sure the risks they take can lead greatly. K-ON for example was a shit manga but a great anime, or Beyond the Boundary and etc.

[@mizto3291]

@@reyairina5045 Also no, I don't have brain damage, it appears I just don't correlate with your taste which is fine by me.

[@kendog84bsc]

WOW, Drangon Maid is getting the second season? That's awesome.

[@slifer875]

it looks pretty but i can't bring myself to care about the characers and story, also kyoany loves to make their characters cry to the point it got boring.......

[@ryudjn6590]

I stopped hibike in the first Minute. That shitshow literally starts with a girl crying in such an unbearable overdramatic way...

[@inverted5712]

This did not age well

[@TheCreepypro]

I don't think they are getting boring yet but I do see that on the horizon if they don't watch themselves

[@maibhe6754]

I wonder if part of it is what directors they are using. Back in the day, Takemoto did a lot of their popular stuff. Ishihara was also big, but he isn't as good, and besides Haruhi, he mostly did Key stuff, and at least Kanon and Air are pretty bad. Later we got Yamada, but the only anime by her that fits well within the old era is K-On. In the recent years, Takemoto has been a lot less common as a director. The only stuff he did was Amaburi and Dragon Maid. Ishihara still does some stuff, but Yamada mostly does movies which are less major events in anime community than tv shows. Many of their recent anime are directed by new directors that weren't active back when Kyoani were at their height. I think that may be part of it. Thier only consistent directors, Yamada and Takemoto, have become less relevant and don't do many tv series anymore

[@elhugo13]

so kyoani is like digibro in a way?

[@nathanbraun2067]

You seem to be implying Haruhi wouldn't be popular if kyoani didn't do it. That is wrong. Haruhi was already popular before the anime. Bad adaptions like higurashi were also super popular, so even a bad haruhi adaption would be popular

[@jayterra2585]

higurashi is a great adaptation, fuck off.

[@LimeyLassen]

New Haruhi isn't being written though, that's a factor.

[@eff-fume]

Free! is great and deserves more discussion than "haha fujobait lol".... It has been... sooooo many years... It is time to move on. My boys deserve better. Also the archery club anime was mad fuck boring and uncomparable to Free!, just wanted to throw that one in. The opening scene of Free! is more interesting that that show..

[@salonichavan1629]

Yes. Mentality needs to be changed

[@jayterra2585]

full metal panic second raid is peak kyoani, nothing comes close

[@-TheRealAnimeFan-]

Free! is actually decent...

[@RaelgunXIII]

Rant

[@credfire8660]

Just want to make it clear that Haruhi was great because of both Tanigawa Nagaru and KyoAni, the anime is one of the most faithful adaptations to ever be created (excluding the endless eight arc).

[@WickedAnimeTroll]

I prefer it when KyoAni adapts other properties instead of their in house stuff. This is why my favourite show of them is Full Metal Panic: TSR and Fumoffou and I think it is a shame they never went back to it.

[@half-hazard8903]

>Anitwitter really likes Hibike and Liz and the Blue Bird Fucking tell me about it.

[@dragunov815]

Ouch.

[@carlkier1345]

Most of the their good older shows were directed by Ishihara Tatsuya , and that's the case with most of their good newer shows (such as Hibike Euophonium). The reason they've changed is mainly because shit directors have begun directing their shows.

[@daltonriser1125]

so if i'm looking back 5 years at kyoani if that is recent enough to call recent 2nd season of chunnibyo which is meh tamako market and love story which are great free! eternal summer which is more free which is cool amagi brilliant park is probably the most 6/10 show that kyoani has made in the 2010s hibike is great absolutely love it myriad colors phantom world was bad and it seems to have been forgotten that it was doen by kyoani loved kobyashi's dragon maid violet evergarden is cool to look at but is honestly kind of meh outsie of some good music and one seriously good standalone episode 10 a silet voice which is actually pretty good liz and the blue bird which was fine i guess there was also tsurune but i haven't seen any of it. so they aren't necesarily gotten more boring but its more that things like hibike a silent voice and liz and the blue bird and violet evergarden get propped up and put on giant pedastals.

[@bernieburton6520]

Personally, Amagi is amazing. It's absolutely hilarious. I liked it more than Dragon Maid overall.

[@joseph0098]

Yeah, to be pretty honest I'm not a HUGE KyoAni fan but I do respect them a lot because they're one of the few animation studios that do what they want, with really solid production values, put a lot of effort and love in their projects without overworking their staff and they're commercially successful. That's really difficult to do specially in the anime industry from my knowledge...

[@manuelquintana3401]

Man . I didn't care about all the characters in viloet. The setting was boring, and yet it's still brought me to tears. Well I'm a sheep I guess

[@Rapshout]

yeah but k-on movie 2

[@Fleshlight_Reviewer]

lul they were boring since 2012

[@reyairina5045]

more like that's when they got good, modern kyoani are underrated

[@Fleshlight_Reviewer]

@@reyairina5045 the 0.1%

[@joyboy_3165]

I though you liked eupho too

[@Kuudere-Kun]

Haruhi is not popular solely because of the Anime, the best stuff Haruhi has done hasn't been animated yet.

[@LimeyLassen]

I found the light novels a bit disappointing tbh. The anime was a real glow up.

[@Zelkiiro]

As far as I'm concerned, KyoAni's only missteps are Lucky Star and Phantom World. And Endless Eight.

[@bobby2915]

Fuck Kyoto Animation!

[@CaseNumber00]

To me, Kyoani has been leaning on creating content primed for women's tates such as anime with shows lesbian undertones and fan service for women. Nothing wrong with that at all but most of which is not my immediate preference, I think thats why a lot of us feel left out. I really want them to do a hard sci fi series at this point in time.

[@hui-an-xin]

KyoAni is a hit or miss for me, when they do things well they really do things well, when they pick up the wrong project, everything falls apart and feels like a tremendous waste of energy, talent, and potential. My major issue with KyoAni is how reluctant they are with representing lqbtq characters, for example with Violet Evergarden and Tsurune, they went out of their way to tone down bisexual characters or homosexual relationships. KyoAni is not a champion of yaoi or yuri, I don't know how people keep saying that, and I cannot believe people misread Hibike in such a wrong way, when that show very clearly establishes who is attracted to who, and what degree of attraction that is. Violet Evergarden is a mismanaged mess, the source material is slightly above average at best, but the anime is overdone, with terrible anime-original arcs and rewriting. Tsurune is pretty and decent, but forgettable and cliche. Liz to Aoi Tori is the only thing I've liked in recent time. Maid Dragon is great, just not my kind of show. Free is oversaturated, while it still has decent things to say here and there, it's not as refreshing or new. Phantom World, Hyouka, and Amagi Brilliant Park were poor experiences.

[@rileyelliott8063]

last

[@allenwalker4703]

To be fair i never really like them and feel like Haruhi is a terrible anime.

[@LimeyLassen]

Compared to what exactly?

[@allenwalker4703]

@@LimeyLassen I'm comparing their new anime with their old anime, i didn't really like haruhi, phantom world, and hyouka anymore than i like what they do now. They do have some anime that i love like Nichijou but mostly i think the studio is very overated.

[@just_xanny2777]

@Allen Walker Haruhi came out 5 years before Nichijou what you talkin' bout Willis

[@HxH2011DRA]

>Getting Always was my guys

[@romulusnuma116]

Yeah man their new output doesn't seem all that different to their just that people have seen enough to be bored of it