KyoAni: “K-ON! Sells Because of Our Passion!”

Looking at the picture, it seems KyoAni knows who doesn't sell :)

"K-ON! was godly, it really changed my outlook on life!"

try saying that with a straight face...

I wanna see Angel beats by SHAFT that would be DIFFERENT.

Would of sold more if more people liked K-On...

I just get the K-on game 4 PSP.......

All I have to say is that people are far too critical of K-ON. (I have nothing to say for immature producers on both sides though)

Personally, I love Kyoani's animation. Now that K-On! will end (after the movie... maybe...?), hopefully they'll go on to more ambitious works.

"Maybe that’s why they sell.
Games can’t beat us with mere CG – character is what moves animation. Human feelings move characters.
We’d like to shift the stage to Kyoto some time, and make our characters move amidst the natural splendour of Kyoto. Please take care of Kyoto, and thank you for listening."

20/10

I fucking raged

You guys are all idiots. Of course kyoani is more passionate about it's works. That's because the people who work on shows produced by kyoani ACTUALLY WORK AT KYOANI.

Look at the staff credits for pretty much any show, Angel Beats, Bakemono, whatever. I guarantee that a huge chunk of the people working on the show, whether it be key animation, animation direction, or episode direction have almost no association with the studio producing that show at all. The people doing almost all the work on the show are either freelancers, subcontractor studios, or outsourced studios in Korea and China.

The only people working on the show who are associated with the studio are the people at the extremely key positions like series director or character designer and some of the more important key animators.

How can you expect any consistency when most of the people working on a show only work on one episode in the entire series? Or when they're horribly underpaid animators working at a subcontracting studio with 10 employees in a Tokyo slum? Or when they're very nearly slave labor from China? These people are working on multiple shows from all kinds of studios at once just to survive and they have no real passion or connection to the shows they work on.

Now look at the staff for a kyoani show, K-ON for example. Very nearly every person working on the show are employed by kyoani and work exclusively on series by kyoani. They are divided into teams and all work on multiple episodes throughout the whole show, unlike freelancers who contribute to one episode of a series and are not seen for the rest of the shows run. They are really the only late-night anime studio who uses this production system because it's so expensive to maintain. Yet they do it at a large cost to themselves for the sake of the quality of their works.

This is why kyoani is renowned for their animation. This is why kyoani shows have incredible consistency.
And this is why kyoani is the most successful animation studio of the 2000's right next to Sunrise.

And it's also why all you haters can suck kyoani's giant money and moe jizzing cock.

I don't get what's so wrong.
They obviously put alot of effort into their animes what with the great animation and stuff and usually you need to be passionate about something if you're willing to put effort into it.

Hell, some people watch K-ON because of the art.
It may not be the main reason to watch K-ON but it's one of small reasons.

So yeah.

Meh. A-1 Pictures and P.A. Works are better. Produce equally high quality animation as Kyoto, and are much more diverse in their productions.

Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Fairy Tail, Kannagi, Sora no Woto, Seikimatsu Occult Academy all are great enough for me in the A-1 department.

And all three of P.A. Works anime are great; Angel Beats! (Definitely better than any of Jun Maeada's other works...) CANAAN, and True Tears.

They struck paydirt with Haruhi and Hirano Aya and continued to milk both for all its worth in Lucky Star as well.

Once a certain fanbase is captured, they know their next work will be widely anticipated for.

IMO, they just got lucky.

passion, now a substitute for penis

KyoAni seems to have a knack for making quality shows. Sure, they're better at adapting stuff than creating original shows, but a lot of other studios have that same problem, so it's not like they're the only ones.

So why does K-ON! do so well as it does? Well, the moe-factor is definitely a part of it, but if it were just that, I doubt it would sell so well, even if it has KyoAni's seal of approval on it. It's also the character interaction, the humor and the music that play vital roles in the show's success.

So from whatever point you see this, you can't deny that KyoAni knows how to make this all work, so I definitely agree that there is a certain amount of passion involved that contributes to the show's success.

As for him gloating about it, can you blame him? It's the most successful franchise his studio has ever made and it doesn't seem to be dying down any time soon. I say let him have his fun, because I doubt they can ever make another series as big as this one.

Angle Beats <-- Epic FAIL anyways I think Key did a great work, and AB by Kyoani will be a Haruhi Spinoff, even the voice of Yuri reminded me a lot Haruhi's, Otonashi will be Kyon and Tsuruya is Yui, wonder who will be Mikuru, maybe Shiinachi??

What was Endless Eight all about then?

Its not just passion its also the skill and the resources to do their products the best they can.

you know, K-On is quite impressive in it's fanbase, but I still believe the Gunota and Eva-Ota are the most hardcore. Especially those who devote their life for Gunpla... man, when you talk about milking money, Bandai and Gunpla does it very well

K-ON! without the doubt, my favorite all time anime. To me, is sexless and about the love of friends, rock'n'rock, humor and kawaii beyond belief. I am a bit of a hentai hound-Bible Black and naughty tentacles for that! Not K-ON!, not any of KyoAni's works. And the instrument or best rendering in CG history! I know, I had a Les Paul.

K-on promised music.
it didn't deliver.

IT DIDN'T DELIVER!!

fuck U Kyo-Ani

bring us more FMP, then talk!!!

I dont care bout Clannad or Kanon or Haruhi

spare the Lucky star though..

This guy is right, Kyoani put alot of passion into their animation and production and this is why K-on sells well. I can think of other moe anime that are far superior but the production quality just isnt up to standard eg Hidamari.

I dropped Angel Beats because the animation sucked, the characters are the most static shit you will ever see and just look at everyones hair, they all overdo hairspray or something it doesnt fkn move

KyoAni: “K-ON! Sells Because of Our Passion!”

Yeah right, shitty moe series with the same face pallet only difference is the hair.

NO MOE

I don't why this articles states that KyoAni says passion is their reason for success when clearly the animation boss said that passion is "Maybe that’s why they sell" . I can agree with KyoAni and there are plenty of anime that could say the same . Otomo anime , Gainax anime , Ghibli films , etc . It's rather dense to think passion has nothing to do with it and they're certainly not saying passion is the ONLY reason .

They have passion for their. That's good. I admire that because it shows they care about what they're doing but don't BS me. We've all seen dark-skinned Azusa.

“We have a passion (for exploiting otaku), that’s why we sell.”

soo true, though i like K-ON! myself the amount of popularity and sales attribute to this ^^

I believe them. They do put a lot of passion into their shows and movies. I'd rather have one show per year from Kyoto done well than 4 shows per year by JC Staff done halfheartedly. It's a more satisfying and enjoyable experience.

The same can be said for their shows' content. If their passion lies with the average lives of cute girls in high school their work is going to be better than if they were doing some Bee Train story no one cared about.

What would you rather them do? Animate Berserk?

well no one can argue that kyoani quality was excelent till k-on, hell in clannad there were scenes that look out of an anime movie, but k on came, they made a weird season of haruhi, the ova of kyou in clannad had a lot of "quality issues", and now they are focused in moeblobs, if they want to prove otherwise, then make another season of full metal panic and i migth think about it.

No KyoAni = No Lucky Star

As for passion, w/e

>It can't be helped.