Animation Appreciation Thread #3

The Sakuga Wiki [JP] - http://www18.atwiki.jp/sakuga/
ANN Database - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/

Animation Blogs [Eng]:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/
http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/

Animation Twitters [Eng]:
http://twitter.com/raito_kun
http://twitter.com/Duune99
http://twitter.com/kyouray
http://twitter.com/catsuka

Previous threads:
#1 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1291816034
#2 http://dis.4chan.org/read/anime/1314681601

I want to move away from using the term "Sakuga" as it often alienates people and can be misleading. There has been a bit of backlash against the Sakuga movement lately, and I'd like to think many people come to this thread to talk about the animation and visual aspect of anime, which is something that often gets overlooked elsewhere. It would be nice if we could get a wider appreciation of visuals in the anime fandom without being seen as elitists.

>>849
Their next project after Hyouka IS an original work. The story for Chuunibyo was one of the encouragement prize winners at the first Kyoto Animation Award for creators (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-22/no-grand-prizes-given-for-1st-kyoto-animation-award), subsequently  made into the first light novel under Kyoto Animation's newly formed Esuma Bunko label and is now getting also animated by KyoAni themselves. So yeah, this is an original Kyoto Animation work with no major label or anything behind. They are producing and animating it on their own. On the downside, if the anime adaptation fails, they'll have sunk a lot of their own capital on it, unlike Nichijou which was produced by Kadokawa and KyoAni was only hired for animation work.