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Interview: Kyoto Animation's Taichi Ishidate

Violet wouldn't work as a movie as-is. Having read all of the shorts, it's too episodic to be contained in a film without being an editing nightmare and nearly as incoherent as Suicide Squad's story became. The stories are too different, though they each build up the main theme Akatsuki tells about Violet herself.

Now if you say "the final short in novel 1 would work as a movie," that's a different situation. It's a long, self-contained short that tells an interesting story with interesting characters and would fit in the timespan of a movie. My only issue with that is the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger to build anticipation for the second novel. It would likely have to have an epilogue or such added to it from the other material to fit.

jojothepunisher wrote:

Kyoto Animation and ufotable are the only animation studios that can consistently deliver high-quality animation at will. More anime studios should follow their company management style.

ufotable? That despite the delays of the God Eater anime and some of pretty poor drawings in later episodes of Unlimited Blade Works?

In any case, I much prefer KyoAni with their more traditional approach than the CGI fest that Ufotable produces, not that there's anything bad with it, just matter of preferences.

Recently seeing Tamako Love Story confirmed my view that this studio produces the most effective character animation of any company.

Tsuruoka-san and the Sound Director said to me

I've found every one of them to be very enjoyable (didn't bother with Free...not my style)

Violet wouldn't work as a movie as-is. Having read all of the shorts, it's too episodic to be contained in a film without being an editing nightmare and nearly as incoherent as Suicide Squad's story became.

Tsuruoka IS the sound director (he has worked on all Kyoto Animation works in that role iirc).

I see alot comparing and arguing Ufotable vs Kyotoanimation. that's really stupid. kyoto animation is clearly the better studio in terms of animation. anyone who believes otherwise really needs to look at ufotable animation without any of its effects and see how stiff it is. ufotable has such top class looking shows because of its digital team which is responsible for all the effects and cgi (including the 2d effects which no are not drawn by the animator for their shows). if it wasn't for their digital team none of us would be arguing about this.

Kyoto Animation and ufotable are the only animation studios that can consistently deliver high-quality animation at will. More anime studios should follow their company management style.

@Kougeru KyoAni tends to have great scheduling compared to other studios, hence the animation quality. Budget is important, but shows like Gundam SEED Destiny and Attack on Titan are amongst the most expensive pure anime, yet they have atrocious animation. Even parts of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex are horribly animated. That's why most KyoAni shows look and move good.

In any case, I much prefer KyoAni with their more traditional approach than the CGI fest that Ufotable produces, not that there's anything bad with it, just matter of preferences.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't KyoAni actually own most of what they produce? They also constantly cash in very good profits, how comes other studios do not replicate the formula?

I see alot comparing and arguing Ufotable vs Kyotoanimation. that's really stupid. kyoto animation is clearly the better studio in terms of animation. anyone who believes otherwise really needs to look at ufotable animation without any of its effects and see how stiff it is. ufotable has such top class looking shows because of its digital team which is responsible for all the effects and cgi (including the 2d effects which no are not drawn by the animator for their shows). if it wasn't for their digital team none of us would be arguing about this.

so let's have a look here. -
a studio with an incredible animation team, incredible production team and an incredible digital team AND a great pr team vs a studio which has a horrible animation so much that for key moments in UBW only 3 people were able to do them. 1 of which were freelance. a pretty horrible production team(dem delays and shortcuts tho). a great pr team and a great digital team.

I honestly see no competition in the slightest outside of Ufotable giving staff the opportunity to spend time with fans of the shows they work on most of the time.

Man. KyoAni is easily my #1 studio ever. People give them crap about some of their works (Kyoukai no Kanata for example) but I've found every one of them to be very enjoyable (didn't bother with Free...not my style) to some degree. Their art is the best. You can always see the hard work and care they put into their art.

As for future works, I really hope they're doing the final season for Full Metal Panic. Their schedule is mostly empty (Violet not having a date yet), so I'm praying the event in October will announce KyoAni as the studio >.> It would be amazing for them to go back to a franchise from a decade ago, but it wouldn't be too surprising to me since they did work with Shoji Gatoh on Amagi a few years ago. Praying hard because their works on FMP were absolutely the best.