"Anime means the whole world to me, it changed my life. If I could give millions of dollars, I would. I am forever indebted to anime creators around the world. ”
"I'm a super anime fan. I've seen a lot of Kyoani's work, and in many ways, it's their work that makes me who I am today. I've been watching anime since over a decade ago and have loved anime for many years. My heart is with Kyoani and the families of employees. I want to use this donation to repay some of the kindness and joy that all of their work has brought me. Your loyal fans. ”
"At this time three years ago I committed suicide because I lost a friend. Ever since The Shape of Sound came out, it's been helping me cope. Now I feel overwhelmed to know that such a tragedy has occurred. ”
This is a message from fans all over the world on the fundraising site gofundme.
For everyone, the malicious arson incident that occurred yesterday at the Japanese "Kyoto Animation" studio was a terrible disaster.
At least 33 people died and 36 were injured. Among the victims were 12 men and 20 women, one whose gender could not yet be confirmed. According to the latest reports from foreign media, 28 employees have died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The arson case has been called Japan's deadliest attack since the Heisei era. Today, many people and fans have gone to the scene to mourn spontaneously.
After the news came out, Kyoto Animation's overseas distributor sentai filmworks in Europe and the United States quickly created a page called "Help Kyo Ani Recover" on gofundme, and the original fundraising goal of $500,000 was quickly achieved, and after being raised to $750,000, it was quickly surpassed again, and has received donations of up to $1.3 million from all over the world, and it is still growing.
Kyoto animation, because of its abbreviation as "kyoani", is affectionately known as Kyo Ani by Chinese fans. For two-dimensional fans, these casualties are not just a terrible number, but also the old friends who have grown up with us on the animation credits.
At present, the list of victims has not yet been confirmed and released. However, according to the news on Twitter, Ishihara Tachibana, who directed "air", "kanon", "clannad", "the melancholy of Haruhi Ryogu", and "Zhongji Disease Also Wants to Fall in Love", also confirmed his survival. Taiichi Ishita, the director of "The Other Side of the Realm" and "Violet Eternal Garden", subsequently confirmed safety. Naoko Yamada, director of "The Shape of Sound" and "Light Sound", and Yukiko Horiguchi, who was responsible for the character design of "Lucky ☆ Star" and "Light Sound", were also confirmed to be fine.
And everyone is more familiar with Yasuhiro Takemoto ("Ice Dragon", "The Disappearance of Haruhi Ryogu", "All Metal Frenzy ~ Campus Chapter", "Lucky Star" Director), Eisaku Kabayashi ("free!"! Director), Akiko Ikeda (Painting Supervisor for Haruhi Ryogu, "Blowing Bar On the Bass Horn"), Taishi Nishiya ("Ice Cream", "Everyday", "Free! "Character setting and painting supervision"), Kazumi Ikeda ("air", "kanon", "clannad" painting supervision) and others are still in a state of disconnection.
I haven't sent much circle of friends for a long time, yesterday looking at the rising number of casualties, I was so angry that I couldn't help but send n states in a row, which caused my mother to hurry up and ask me what happened. But it was hard to explain to anyone why an accident at an animation production company far away in Kyoto, Japan, which I had never visited, had made me cry all afternoon.
People who are familiar with Japanese anime know the saying, "Kyo Ani production, must be a boutique." If Studio Ghibli is the peak of the animation theater in the Japanese anime world, then Kyoto Animation is another peak of TV animation. Many familiar animations, including "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu", "The Girl with the Soft Voice", and "Lucky Star", are from Kyo Ani. In the 15 years since we began to produce animation independently, these works have been as netizens have left messages saying, "with us spending more than ten years of happy time", Kyoto Animation has long become an unmasked old friend around us.
When yesterday's donation target was quickly met in one day, John Ledford, head of Sentai Filmworks, wrote at GoFundme, "Since its founding in 1981, Kyoto Animation has touched millions of people around the world and sparked their imaginations. Kyoani's impeccable story and exquisite animation have brought immeasurable joy to the anime world. ”
"All Metal Frenzy ~ Campus" (2005)
"Sometimes God draws a card called Despair because He is disappointed in humanity." ”
Before the production of "All Metal Frenzy ~ Campus Chapter", Kyo Ani was also an animation outsourcing company, undertaking the outsourcing production of famous animations such as "Crayon Shin-chan" and "InuYasha". However, after the end of the first part of "All Metal Frenzy", the copyright party Kadokawa Chose to hand over the second "All Metal Frenzy ~ Campus Chapter" to Kyoto Animation, which had almost no independent production experience at that time, and this TV animation far exceeded the reputation of the first film, achieved good results, showed Kyoto Animation's ability to control the campus theme, and also became the beginning of Kyoto Animation's independent production of animation.
"air" (Blue Sky, 2005)
- "People can't live without memories." But only memories cannot survive. ”
"Air", "Kanon", and "Clannad" are known as Kyo Ani's tear-jerking trilogy, which has made Kyoto Animation a great success, and many people have also come to know this animation production company. These three works were originally galgame produced by the game company Key Society, which originally had a very large fan base, and Kyo Ani's high-level production temporarily trademarked its name and became synonymous with excellent animation production. At the same time, the famous song "Bird Poem" in "Air" was played by NHK after the evening news in 2007, and was jokingly called the "national anthem" by many Japanese manga fans.
Kanon (Snow Maiden, 2006)
" If only I could gradually change myself like this, while going through such a seemingly unchanging daily life." Maybe one day you can think back to the past with a sad mood! ”
Snow was falling and the sky was white, and Yuichi Aizawa arrived in the northern town on the Shinkansen and reunited with his cousin Mizuse Nayuki, whom he had not seen for seven years, at the school gate. "Kanon" is the first time I have seen Kyo Ani's work, and the opening scene is my most memorable scene, although it is difficult to perceive the significance of this encounter at first glance, but when I finally look back, I realize that this is the footnote to the eternal theme of the trilogy "Miracle, Convention, Goodbye".
Clannad (Tuanzi Family, 2007)
- "The world is beautiful, even if it is full of sorrow and tears." Please also open your eyes, do what you want to do, be the person you want to be, and find your friends. Don't be anxious, grow up slowly. ”
"Clannad" is the most mature of the trilogy, regarded as the pinnacle of the three, and the one with the most fans. Because it tells the story of the protagonist Okazaki Tomoya from childhood to adulthood in the length of two seasons and 50 episodes, it is known as the work of "Reading as Life". As Tomoya Okazaki grows up, the understanding between him and his father, and nagisa's encounters, are like scenes in everyone's growth process, thus gaining the audience's high recognition in the bland and delicate narrative.
"Ryogu Haruhi" series
- "I am Ryogu Kasuga from Tochu." I have no interest in ordinary humans. If any of you have aliens, future people, visitors from other worlds, or superpowers, come to me, and you're done. ”
If "air", "kanon", and "clannad" made Kyoto Animation famous, then "Ryogu Haruhi" caused a phenomenon-level boom in the Chinese and Japanese anime circles, and also made Aya Hirano suddenly promoted to a national singer.
Who did not expect to have the power to save the world when he was a child, but Haruhi Ryogu decided to challenge the mediocre routine. Tanigawa's original novel was originally very successful, but Kyoto Animation broke with the conventional production and completely disrupted the order in which the anime series were played, causing the audience to be blindfolded while watching, triggering a fierce plot discussion. Who doesn't remember that nightmarish "Endless August"? Throughout August, the plot of each episode of the broadcast was almost exactly the same, but the sub-shots of each scene were completely different.
Lucky Star (2007)
This is an anime that tells the daily story of four female high school students. Although he just watched the four girls led by Izumi in their daily lives, because of various trivial matters, they were constantly nagging, but they won the widespread love of the audience. Coupled with the very "cute" character setting, the character of "Lucky Star" once became synonymous with "cute".
"Light Tone" (2009)
" What is important, cherished, is always around, and once taken for granted, it is difficult to discover." ”
Who doesn't have a few classmates around who choose to play music because of Sakuragaoka High School's "light music department"? The story is based on four teenage girls playing music, based on the four-panel manga of the same name created by Free Kakifly. Originally, the manga had no main line, so it gave Kyoto Animation a lot of room for adaptation, making this work the first anime created entirely around "dreams" in Kyo Ani, which touched many audiences. It also makes many people remember the four names of guitarist Yuki Hirazawa, bassist Akiyama, drummer Tai Nakari, and keyboardist whistle.
The Shape of Sound (2016)
"No matter who it is, there will always be pain in life, so even if it is your own defects, you must love and move forward." ”
The Shape of Sound is an animated film produced by Kyoto Animation that tells the story of a teenager, Shoya Ishida, who wants to atone for her sins after bullying Nishinomiya Glass, a young girl with hearing impairments in school, and causing irreparable harm to her. The film caused a great response in Japan, where school bullying was severe, and grossed 2.3 billion yen at the box office.
In addition to these listed, Kyoto Animation has many excellent works that have taught many viewers about love, friendship, family affection, and dreams in different ways. Nowadays, this group of people who have made dreams for everyone is uncertain because of this fire, the page status of Jing Ani's official website and twitter stays on the promotion of the new theatrical version of "free" on July 17, and it is unknown when many works will be opened again, but it can be seen from the hot search of major social platforms that the years that have passed with Jing Ani have always stayed in the hearts of every fan.
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