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Originally Posted by arias
Still the best studio now. There's no better studio, and I doubt that there's an TV series animation studio that has a better modern track record than KyoAni.
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Maybe for Japan and some parts of East Asia but not in the west. Sunrise and Madhouse performed much better for the western audience than KyoAni where slice of life/moe isn't as popular. Code Geass, Gundam and Death Note had a much bigger impact than Haruhi or Lucky Star did over in the west.
The term "best studio" is also subjective and limited to a couple of genres. KyoAni has yet to try or make a successful proper grim dark or action series for example. Most popular in East Asia might be the better term, but as for best, other studios like Madhouse or Studio Ghibli are more deserving due to their vast genre exposure and successes for these various genres.
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The Key-KyoAni relationship definitely depends on KyoAni to make it work in animation.
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Animation by P.A. Works for Angel Beats was fine, it appeared to be similar in quality to KyoAni's. It was the plot/pacing that was the main issue, not the animation.
Angel Beats was also more of an experimental project and funnily enough it was commercially successful. As mentioned before, plot/pacing was an issue which may be a combination of:
1. P.A. Works inexperience of dealing with big projects
2. Jun Maeda's inexperience of dealing with scripts other than for Visual Novels
3. The 13 episode limitation (Should have really had 24+)
4. Too much "filler"/unnecessary content despite the episode limitation.