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Originally Posted by ultimatemegax
And you're wrong. The same producers chose to make Free! (minus the switch between TBS/Asahi Broadcasting with Nakayama replacing Nishide), which your argument would say it'd have the same general feel (which it doesn't). Shows are different due to directors/series composers. This is why you have them and not some conglomerate studio identity (otherwise you're saying every single show from other studios is exactly the same, which is incorrect). Kyoukai is Kyoukai because of Ishidate/Hanada doing what they wanted to do. Free! is Free! because of Utsumi/Yokutani (especially due to Utsumi who had a huge hand in everything (READ THE GUIDEBOOK INTERVIEW!) doing what they wanted to do. (and so on).
You could comment "the insular environment has made each of the directors develop similar preferences/styles in how they depict certain scenes" or "Having Ishihara direct so many shows influenced many of the other staffers." That would be more correct for the situation. Instead you make it sound like there's one amorphous body that is KyoAni and nothing else inside impacts their productions.
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My argument isn't that every Kyoani production is inherently the same. No of course, there are different people behind each project, though we could draw correlation between other Kyoani productions with the same exact director/writer/producer combos. Of course there are going to be some differences, and if we want to single out people in certain productions, that's very doable. I already realize a good amount of the blame for Kyoukai no Kanata is probably due to the director. However, it's also to the people who staffed her, and the studio as a whole has to bear the consequences of that.
Moreover, Kyoani is an entity as a whole, regardless of what individual is put on a project. The studio bears the responsibility of whatever people produce work through them. Yeah, maybe there's an incompetent director or writer on such and such project, but that does absolve the leadership in the company of their responsibility as well? Have you never heard the concept of leadership bearing responsibility for their underlings? Leaders of countries get blamed all the time for the people they staff who do bad work.