Kyoto Animation

I think, to me, this is, like, this story lends itself so well to animation that they kind of, like, you know, they took a block of marble and they chiseled out the perfect version of it for this anime.

Like, they really just nailed all the adaptation decisions like that of knowing, like... oh hey this couldn't have been this big explosive moment because it's a manga but because we're killing ourselves with all this animation these moving background shots might as well go for it right curious to know what y'all think about the whole axe murderer stuff especially like the obvious connection to the Kyoto animation arson attack

I think it's like, I can, I can see someone being like, Oh, it's like, so like Diabolus X Machina.

It's so out of nowhere, blah, blah, blah.

And like, that's the thing.

Like, generally speaking, Kyoto Animation tweaks things to be better for animation purposes.

But did they do that

for Sparks of Tomorrow?

And like, they're... vertical integration positive

well no it's not even just so yes not just that though it's about the level of like control and the being able to like economically if they're making concessions to another company at that extent then they can't run their business the way they want to they can't do the production cycles that they want to they can't have their desks their production lines take this the specific amount of time they have allocated for their their stuff

yeah and it just like that's why kyoto animation is goaded is because they are again vertically integrated but not in an evil way

unless you ask the author of sparks of tomorrow

Like, those are the kinds of shows that deserve the hate for its ending, not this one season.

So going into the underrated category, I still think, after rewatching this a couple of years back, that inside of Kyoto Animation's catalog, barely anybody talks about Hyouka.

And like Hyouka as a slice of life mystery romance show, like in between all these different pieces, it still looks better than 90% of shows coming up today.

It does its mysteries and it does its like world building and stories like well enough to the degree that you are invested in every episode that comes out.

You're very curious to see how the majority of this is going to turn out.

And you just get invested in these characters' lives.

Like, it's such an interesting juggling thing to do where it's kind of, it's mostly slice of life with hints of mystery and hints of romance, but it's of all the catalog that gets talked about from Kyoto Animation's work, I do think that more people, as they have been getting into this studio as a whole, should go back and give Hyouka a watch.

Now, the most overrated show of, like, just...

If the appeals gain some headway, the execution can be postponed for a very long time.

Shinji Aoba, the perpetrator of the Kyoto Animation fire, has been on death row for almost three years now.

Shoko Asahara, the man behind the Tokyo sarin gas attacks, was on death row for 14 years before he was finally executed.

One man, Masayasu Fuji, has been on death row for a whopping 49 years.

Ah, who's doing it?

Ruri Dragon has been officially confirmed to be animated by Kyoto Animation.

Oh.

Okay, that changes the entire equation.

It completely changes it.

For anyone listening who might not track the specific pedigrees of Japanese animation houses, Kyoto Animation, often affectionately called KyoAni by the fans, is a legendary, masterful studio.

They are arguably the best at what they do.

They possess a very specific, highly coveted superpower in the industry.

And it's also a little bit surrealistic.

It comes from Kyoto Animation.

Of course, one of the top anime companies in Japan, Kyoto Animation.

And there are some scenes in the episodes where you're looking and you're thinking that Salvador Dali put this together.

It's a very, very interesting viewpoint, I think, that they show.

Yesterday

... done by KyoAni.

Are the GOATs.

Yeah, yesterday.

Like, in my mind their production, um, really has more to do with how they produce the show versus how, uh, the story comes together.

And I get that, um, and I get that this was based off of something and then they kind of, uh, jumped the shark and went a whole different way.

I, I felt like the production was really where I was kind of feeling the Ky- the KyoAni, like, style.

And the story was just kind of there.