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Key trilogy is better animated than K-On!... oh god.
Kyoani only started to be truly remarkable animation-wise with K-On!. Before that, they just made very well produced shows with a good budget and schedule, but there was nothing really interesting besides very specific events like God Knows, Clannad AS's fight scene, or the Anime Tencho scenes from LS.
For me, from K-On! onwards they have developed a clear style of animating, which is unique to them (unlike what they had been doing previously) and infinitely more interesting than the stiff Key-based animation they had been doing. Disregarding K-On!'s character designs because they're simple is like disregarding Yuasa's style because "he can't draw", for god's sake.
It's okay if you barely enjoy animation, but K-On!!'s (and Yuasa lol) animation is insanely impressive by any standards. Redline has its place in the enormous spectrum of different approaches to movement, and it's not next to K-On! and Hyouka. Comparing the two is just limited; or what, did you want a fluffy iyashikei show to feature something like Redline's character designs?
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