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Well White Fox did that OP for KEY's Rewrite that looked particularly good. But can they maintain those for a whole series with proper pacing?
The trouble with P.A. Works is that we don't yet know if they can take an established work and make it work. Angel Beats was original so the audiance had nothing to really base their work on aside from the anime. With Little Busters (Planetaeian and Rewrite for that matter as well) you have a fan base that knows what to expect and expect to get it. Said fanbase knows they can get more or less what they want out of KyoAni and mostly does not want Toei to touch the works again. Thus using anyone but KyoAni is a risk. The question is "is it a risk worth taking to use someone else? Or just wait until KyoAni isn't busy?"
As for comfort zone KyoAni...Nichijou was a comedy. It wasnt about "cute girls doing cute things", it was not a harem or visual novel project. It wasn't a light novel adaptation. The closest thing it was like was the two Haruhi based web episodes and Lucky Star. Nichijou didn't hit the otaku levels of Lucky Star and didn't have the popular based of Haruhi behind it. While it didn't do well, you can see they put a lot of work into that show. I don't know it if was them showing off, or just using their students to make it as final projects, but the art and animation were top level even for KyoAni.
Of course, presently, we still have no idea exactly what KyoAni will be doing next. All this tells us is that it probably won't be a KEY's work project.
What is KEY working on next?
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