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Originally Posted by ultimatemegax
Similarly, the producers/board at Kyoto Animation decided to adapt the light novel into an anime. The current series is an anime adaptation of the novel with Ishidate and Hanada making the series fit into 13/14 episodes how they see fit. They are in charge of making this series what is currently airing, not the producers/board. There is a difference between the two. We don't say that the "Swimming CM" is an advertisement for "Free!" even though they share a similar base.
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Several posters have already pointed out this argument doesn't fly when it is their employees and their products that represent the KyoAni brand. If you can make a counter argument to that, I would be all ears. As for Free! (and KnK) it was clearly decided when those trailers got released that those properties are getting anime adaptations. Do you have a source where it says that they decided on developing those into an anime after they have analyzed the generated interest? Until you can provide that, I will just stick to the more plausible explanation that production was already on the way.