A few days ago, the second phase of "The Dragon Maid of the Kobayashi Family", as the first TV animation confirmed after the Kyo Ani fire, showed us the first step of "Phoenix Nirvana" after the Kyo Ani disaster. " new theatrical version of the news. Although Free! The theatrical version of "" was also determined before the disaster, but after releasing the trailer so quickly and confirming the 2021Coming Soon, it seems that kyo Ani's "blood return" speed was unexpected.
The official confirmation of "see you in 2021" is the same as "The Dragon Maid of the Kobayashi Family".
Here is a brief introduction, Japan's first quarter 12 episodes of TV animation, the production schedule is about a year in advance. For example, the second issue of "Kobayashi's Dragon Maid", if it is announced that the news comes out and then start production, it will almost start broadcasting at the same time of the second year, that is, if it is the published period to start production, then October 2021 should be able to broadcast the first episode, but it is not that it takes 1 year to do 12 episodes, but only from planning, to the best first episode, OPED, it will take a year, and then the progress is about 2 months of the progress of an episode, of course, 1 year in advance, 1-3 episodes that may start will be done.
The theatrical version, the production cycle is about 90 minutes - 120 minutes takes 1 or 2 years of production time, that is to say, it is estimated that this "Free! The new theatrical version is also a matter of the second half of next year.
If these two films are broadcast in 2021, there is no doubt that today's Kyo Ani is "double open", that is, two films are being produced at the same time.
If Kyo Ani is really preparing and producing two films at the same time, it seems that the production ability has been almost restored, and the rest is the question of whether the quality of the specific work can have the previous strength.
In recent years, Free! The team director of "" is Eisaku Kawaba, and it is a pity that the character is a young original artist Tadashi Nishiya who has lost his life, that is, "Free! The core team of "" is affected, which is the same problem as "The Dragon Maid of the Kobayashi Family", Kyo Ani will elect a new person to take on this important position, or conservative use of the elderly, the establishment of this policy is likely to affect the future operation of Kyo Ani or the style of the work, personally is looking forward to pushing new people, this is the courage of a dynamic team, but also look forward to "Free! The new work of "" can bring people to the same as the previous works of Kyo Ani.