>JULY 21, 2017 -- Kyoto Animation announced on their website that they have ended running the 9th Kyoto Animation Award and instead now looks forward to entries for the 10th Kyoto Animation Award in 2018. The award has been held annually and only produced a single Grand Prize winner in the past 8 years, Violet Evergarden, which is scheduled to receive a TV animation adaptation soon.
>Multiple honorable mentions and other prize winners from the contest have gone on to receive anime adaptations, including Chuu2, Euphonium, and High Speed! (adapted under the title Free!).
So why did KyoAni cancel this year's contest? Too many shitty entries? Not enough entries because people are daunted by KyoAni's extreme pickiness? KyoAni staff having too much to animate on their plate already for the rest of the year?
Mason Green
Kyoani should drop trash like Hibike and Free!
Thomas Lee
Not Chuunibyou? That's arguably the most shitty out of those three there.
Tyler Flores
>KyoAni's extreme pickiness LEL. So, Phantom Flop tier story is magnum opus by Kyoani standard.
Owen Thomas
Isnt there a big rumor going around that kyo ani is going to make violet evergarden their final TV series?
Jacob Nguyen
Maybe they've finally learned from adapting their own IP.
Chase Jones
>MUNTO >The World Reflected in the Eyes of the Girl Looking Up at the Sky >Sales: < 300 units
Please no, KyoAni tried and it failed so horribly. They're only good at visuals and tweaking an existing story.
James Garcia
Too many isekai
Nathaniel Thomas
>Kyoani is going to make violet evergarden their final TV series No, faggot. Is this your first week on Sup Forums? Jesus, you're being meme'd by Sup Forums for good.
Jaxon Gomez
They already explained that they were changing how it works.
Jayden Fisher
I hope Kyoani picks a good manga or ln to adapt in my lifetime.
Mason Adams
No, only VEG won their grand prize.
Angel Turner
They want to own the IP completely which any non kyoani loving writer would stay clear off.
Asher Green
Notice how KyoAni's output has only gotten worse since they ditched Kadokawa. They only adapt absolute trash now.
Levi Howard
>be me >be a japanese otaku >heritage money from killing your parents starting to get low >start writing a novel to win kyoani contest >get cloistered in your room for month and month writing the masterpiece >did not get out more before that anyway >starving but still writing >finally july 2017 >only a few month to win, eat and have a kyoani anime >kyoani cancels the award
Colton Anderson
I haven't noticed any change. They've always been hit or miss.
Grayson Bennett
To be fair, anyone entering this year's can simply save their manuscripts or even polish them up and submit them next year.
My money is on that KyoAni got way too many isekai entries and they're too busy animating movies for Free!, Euphonium, and Chuu2 to have the staff to spare for judging.
Brayden Long
I know but my character is dying from starvation
Though it's just a made up story don't call the cops
Adrian Flores
KyoAni cancelled it because they finally realized they're worthless.
Can't get a spot to represent Japan in the Olympics even though Love Live, idolm@ster, and Miku are doing a live concert there.
Don't get invited to be part of the Kyoto cultural ambassador program; instead they have to watch PA Works make a tanuki show for it.
No directors, writers, or composers want to work with them because they consider KyoAni a dead end studio and if you do join them for a project you'll be stuck there with no hopes of getting out.
No sponsors give them money to make anything.
No manga or novelist want their works adapted by kyoani and would literally even pick Deen over them if they had to.
Kayden Long
What went wrong?
Nathan Sanchez
Is anyone going to point out that Hibike has nothing to do with their contest?
Jack Rivera
They tried to take control of publishing without realizing that also requires having writing talent on board.
Jose Ortiz
I bet all the entries were isekai's.
Blake Morgan
I'm pretty sure they already had a no isekai rule in place.
Jace Wilson
That wasn't them.
Elijah Baker
>Kyoani should drop their only recent title that sold well Idiot, enjoy your new fuccbois swimming movie.
Jaxson Barnes
>even though Love Live, idolm@ster, and Miku are doing a live concert there. >no rapeman Bummer.
Colton Ward
>if you do join them for a project you'll be stuck there with no hopes of getting out. That so?
William Gomez
Munto doesn't really count; It was just a marketing tool that they could use to show production committees that they could put out a professional quality production if they were hired.
Grayson Mitchell
Chunibyo, Free, and Koe no Katachi made more.
Cameron Smith
>Chunibyo, Free, and Koe no Katachi made more. >Free Yeah, that's my point.
Joseph Torres
>hibikes, chu2 and free are their cash cows Please let the milking end with these new movies
Landon Garcia
Uchouten by Kyoani would have been nice though.
Jaxson King
Benten meets Tamako when
Elijah Baker
Free S3 will be announced at the end of TYM. Enjoy swimboys in college.
When you draw it.
Joshua Foster
>No manga or novelist want their works adapted by kyoani and would literally even pick Deen over them if they had to. That is literally a lie. The Eupho author was certainly amazed that KyoAni wanted to make an anime with her books.
The issue with KyoAni is that they refuse to get pushed around. That if you want to hire them, you have to work around THEIR schedule. If you need an anime done next year, and KyoAni said no, that's the end of that.
Many other studios would take any job offered, no matter how busy they already are. So if you have a timetable in mind then you wouldn't go for KyoAni.
Jeremiah Lewis
>there's no good contestant >yeah just give to whoever to fill the space Sup Forums logic. That's why awards like Oscar or even Nobel Prize become shittier every year.
Logan Gomez
>hibike >trash kys
Brody Watson
>misunderstanding melodrama >not trash
Wyatt Smith
Probably not enough submissions.
Cooper Clark
Glad they're stepping away from the light novel adaptations.
Lincoln Brown
>The award has been held annually and only produced a single Grand Prize winner in the past 8 years I think that's your reason over there.
Joseph Foster
Funny story, but when I visited Japan, the only place I saw that had their LNs was Akihabara. Even the usual bookstores that normally have other LNs didn't have KA Esuma's books, and I checked during the three times I went there.
Jose Diaz
I'm sure they need to pay to be in mainstream bookstores and it's not cheap.
Christopher Mitchell
Not really. I went to 7-Eleven of all places and there were some not-so-maintream manga (like Kosaki-chan) and a few LNs. Given how most LNs could be bought even in the regular bookstores but not KyoAni's LNs, they must be doing something wrong. That and that none of their LNs have ever charted on the book charts, with the sole exception of High Speed.
Jayden Gutierrez
I used to work at a bookstore and currently work as a game developer. You do have to shit out a lot of money to have big chains put your shit on the shelves, and on top of that they also take commission. I have no idea if this works the same in Japan as it does in the west, but why wouldn't it? The Kyoani label is very small and even manga like Kosaki-chan belong to Shonen Jump, there's just no comparison there between labels.
Gabriel Peterson
Given I've seen even somewhat obscure and niche LNs in at the very least the general bookstores, it's still weird that KyoAni's books are rare. I know their publishing label isn't exactly big but if even the independent stores (which probably charge less) don't have your books, well...
Chase Adams
>Chuuni new movie >Hibike 2 new movies (original) >Violet Evergarden
?
Levi Lee
Hibi
Gabriel Murphy
Hibike is a novel adaptation
Owen Rodriguez
>Munto doesn't really count
Yes because ...
>It was just a marketing tool that they could use to show production committees that they could put out a professional quality production if they were hired.
Except the fact they oh, did it THREE TIMES.
The 2 episodes OVA they did back 2003 The 9 episodes they did back in 2009 And the movie they also did did in 2009
Not counting the manga ... so, explain how they did it THREE TIMES as a marketing tool?
Xavier Jenkins
He called Free! trash too you mongoloid.
Probably this.
Brody Bailey
>Can't get a spot to represent Japan in the Olympics even though Love Live, idolm@ster, and Miku are doing a live concert there. >non-mainstream anime studio can't compete with mass-market multimedia export franchises Whoa.
Cameron Reed
>non-mainstream
B-but muh Haruhi
Hudson Wood
Yes, but the light novel end a good time ago, and the anime covers all the 3 volumes. There's a LN with Kumiko's friend, the blue semen demon but Kyoani doesn't want a spin-off, they want more Mizore-Nozomi drama (1st movie) and 2nd year Kumiko
Alexander Morales
What I meant was that Hibike is not a light novel. It's a novel.
Eli Wilson
Munto was a passion project by the studio's top veteran animator. Naturally the studio would support his efforts since he's a highly respected figure and has been with them since the early days. Unfortunately, Munto is one of the many examples of what happens when you let a great animator direct and write- nothing good comes out of it.
Ryder Myers
Did he retire soon after or (ahem) "get retired"?
Kyoani is a Yakuza front after all.
Oliver Hughes
He's still very much with the studio, he just hasn't directed a show of his own since. That said, he's the studio's best episode director and animator, some people just aren't cut out for writing and leading an entire project.
Aaron Ortiz
I actually started drawing a Tamako/Uchouten crossover fanart thing for a thread many months ago but never finished it
Wyatt Bennett
Kyoani has to make their own LN publishing arm because authors were choosing to not option their works with Kyoani.
Hudson Stewart
Press S to spit on Kyoani's grave
S
Wyatt Nelson
>best episode director But that's Ishidate or Fujita.
David Jackson
They're finally abandoning the garbage fire that are light novels.
KyoAni truly saving anime.
Ian Reed
>Kyoani has to make their own LN publishing arm because authors were choosing to not option their works with Kyoani. What nutjub sentence is that?
No, seriously, you would only say that if you literally don't know how novels get animated.
Luis Rogers
all are trash
just make tamako market s2
Justin Cooper
>wanting s2 after garbage movie that has literally zero connections with TV series Kys