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Originally Posted by ultimatemegax
Then why don't we say that those companies have "comfort zones" or lenses?
Easy. Because people want to complain about KyoAni because they don't like a show and they want them to do something else.
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You think it's just pure hate because people don't get their FMPs and Haruhis? You need to look beyond the whiney fanboys then. I'll give you a better reason: because the people that complain are sick to the bones of KyoAni's comfort zone. Sunrise is known as the mecha company, but they seldom produce good mecha, and good mecha is in short supply. This is not so much the fault of the company as is the fault of the genre. You can keep mecha contained to the usual tropes and you'll still be able to sell plastic models to that angsty teen with too much money. But the people in anticipation of the next big mecha series know that mecha has a couple of degrees larger potential for greatness than any of the genres KyoAni constantly retreats to, whereas KyoAni already "maxed out" on those genres. The people that buy KyoAni works are fans of those genres. KyoAni has done them so many times it's not strange at all that they are good at what they do and that their audience thinks they do a good job at it. But more importantly to this discussion, they go a step further and transform properties to fit their usual product, or they just go for properties that fit products that sold in the past. This is what is meant by lense or whatever ppl said. It's intentional that they retreat to these genres, because they know they will do them justice. That is the very definition of a comfort zone.