Hibike! Euphonium Season 3 ended not just by paying homage to its legacy within anime, but also to its real environment, and everyone who contributed to the series, even the ones who aren’t among us anymore. The way it built a future from all its past accomplishments mirrors how KyoAni is moving forward too.
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Back in 2011, Nichijou was an ambitious, bombastic, yet also thoughtful experiment to match the unique style of Keiichi Arawi’s with Kyoto Animation’s equally distinctive—and in some ways opposed—approach to the creative process. Ever since then, both parties have evolved as storytellers, and now it’s time for their next collaboration: CITY The Animation.
Keiichi Arawi’s…
TV anime productions are often severely limited, so how do you rise from that to make something not simply good but genuinely extraordinary? Gimai Seikatsu and rookie director Souta Ueno found their answer: abstraction, eclectic storytelling, and avant-garde influences to twist genre tropes.
On this site, we tend to talk about anime with relatively high…
Series director Series Director: (監督, kantoku): The person in charge of the entire production, both as a creative decision-maker and final supervisor. They outrank the rest of the staff and ultimately have the last word. Series with different levels of directors do exist however – Chief Director, Assistant Director, Series Episode Director, all sorts of non-standard…
Oshi no Ko S2 has had to navigate tricky waters to be able to animate a stage play with the type of authenticity that the source material didn’t quite venture into. This has reinforced the message in favor of medium specificity and shared its contagious passion for different art forms, while also giving more power…