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.

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Chuunibyo is a KyoAni property, they are the publisher. No other anime production studio would even think of picking up that work and obviously no publisher would have the interest to invest a large part of the production cost for a work that isn't their own. Remember, the point of anime productions isn't only to sell discs but also in particular to promote and raise the sales of the original work as well as related goods. It's doubtful Kadokawa will be on the production committee at all, unless they are going to publish some manga or novel spin-off for it (which again is unlikely because Chuunibyo is being used by KyoAni to promote and strengthen their own publishing label). In short, the Chuunibyo anime is obviously a promotion for the novel itself but also KyoAni's publishing label and their award, it's their own production and they are carrying the largest risk.

And if you look at Munto credits, KyoAni is credited for 製作 and Kadokawa for 製作協力, meaning they weren't actually involved with its production, just helped out with something, which could've been printing of some promotion pamphlets or something equally unimportant. But well, that should've been obvious to begin with, as Munto had zero related material, no novels, no manga, no games, nothing, aside of the disc sales (which were also handled by Kadokawa and Klock Worx).


As for "wasting". They are spending a whole season (at least and not to mention pre-production and all) working on an own property while they aren't paid for it. They are investing their own capital, they don't do outsourcing work for other studios. Yes, at the current time it's a waste if they aren't able to do another work for some anime production studio at the same time or at least do a decent amount of outsourcing work for other studios.

Granted, unlike the fact that they are producing it, this last point is debatable and they could've actually accepted some outsourcing work again for the time on Chuunibyo, i.e. doing some Crayon-chan again after they weren't on the past couple of films, or something completely else. I still stand by the opinion that this production comes a tad too early for them, should've just accepted work on Little Busters or some more Haruhi/K-On/whatever.