Japanese entertainment website Netorabo launched a survey involving 9,521 of its users to choose their favorite animated series produced by animation studio Kyoto Animation and these were the top 10 most voted titles:
10. Kyoukai no Kanata
Synopsis: One day the student Kanbara Akihito discovers one of his classmates, Kuriyama Mirai, about to jump from the roof of the school. After Akihito tries to convince her, Mirai stabs her with a sword made from her own blood, but is surprised to find that Akihito is nothing but a hybrid of human and "yōmu", a race of supernatural creatures. After learning that Mirai is a Spirit World Warrior and the last survivor of her clan, the lives of both intertwine forever.
9. Nichijou
Synopsis: The series follows the lives of a group of students and their school. Several absurd elements appear, such as a robotic girl created by an 8-year-old scientist, a boy who drives a goat to go to school with his butler, a girl who can get guns out of nowhere, a talking cat, and an old man director who is an expert fighter. Despite this, students continue to lead normal lives.
8. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (2006)
Synopsis: Kyon is a cynical and sarcastic teenager. The first day of her freshman year of high school is filled with hopes for a normal school experience, hopes that fade immediately after meeting the beautiful and eccentric Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi is athletic, bright, and completely bored with life. At Kyon's accidental suggestion, she decides to create her own club dedicated to finding and observing life's oddities, such as aliens, Espers, and time travelers who she believes are walking among normal people.
7. Liz to Aoi Tori
Synopsis: This story is a rather peculiar case where he makes a spin-off of a Kyoto Animation series and creates something completely new and much deeper. Emphasizing a fable to complement a friendship relationship separated by destinies and constant changes of growing in life.
6. CLANNAD
Synopsis: Clannad tells the story of Okazaki Tomoya, a melancholic third-year high school student. When his mother dies when he was young, he remains in the custody of Naoyuki, his father, who, being affected by this tragic loss, ends up sunk in gambling and alcohol. The father-son relationships are complicated to the point that Tomoya decides to frequent his house as little as possible, developing a closed and indifferent personality, full of internal conflicts and with no desire for improvement.
His life takes a turn when one morning on the way to school he meets Furukawa Nagisa, an enigmatic girl with somewhat unusual qualities and who will change her way of seeing the world. From that moment begins a friendship between them. Throughout history, new companions, new situations, new challenges, sad and happy moments appear, and together they live strange and unusual experiences that make them understand the strength and fragility of life.
5. K-ON!
Synopsis: The base story focuses on four girls attending their first year of high school, where we have Yui Hirasawa and her impatience in finding a club to participate in. On the other hand we have Ritsu Tainaka (drummer) who proposes to his best friend Mío Akiyama (bassist), to join the light music club of the institute together, but unfortunately they find out that it is close to being closed because all its members they had finished graduating the previous year.
Because the minimum allowed to approve a club is 4 members, Ritsu and Mío desperately try to get the club not to be closed, so in the meantime they will be able to recruit Tsumugi Kotobuki who indicates that he only knows how to play keyboard. This means that it only takes one more member to have the club running again and it is here that after a long wait Yui finally decides on a club, precisely the one with light music and with this saving him from extinction. Unfortunately, the club requires the key piece of every musical band: the guitarist, and Yui has no experience with any instrument.
4. Hyouka
Synopsis: It tells the story of Hotarou Oreki and her three friends who belong to the Classical Literature Club, Club to which the Sister of Hotarou belonged in her student time. One day, Hotarou received a letter from her sister who was trip to ask him to join the Club to keep him alive, since having few members ran the risk of dissolving. However, as much as the club is Classical literature, Hotarou and the other members of the club are dedicated to solving any mystery that arises inside or outside their school. Houtarou is a lazy boy, who prefers to do nothing to "save energy", but Eru Chitanda (President of the Classical Literature Club) will force him to solve all the riddles and questions that come his way.
3. Free!
Synopsis: The story centers on four friends who are fans of swimming; Haruka "Haru" Nanase, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki and Rin Matsuoka. After graduating from elementary school, Rin leaves Japan to study at a swimming academy in Australia and thus begin to pursue his dream of being an Olympic swimmer. Five years after the separation, Haruka has stopped swimming and has no desire to join any swimming club despite Makoto and Nagisa's insistence. In addition to this, Rin has returned from Australia with a quite aggressive attitude and with no intention of returning to the friendship of her former colleagues. However, the creation of the Iwatobi High School swimming club will bring with it a number of changes and reflections in Haruka regarding friendship, days gone by and, above all, the strong feelings and situations involving him with Rin. Together To her friends, Haruka will rediscover the joy of belonging to a team, the enthusiasm of competition and the unconditional friendship, despite the passage of time and the wounds of the past.
2. Hibike! Euphonium
Synopsis: The Kitauji High School institute once participated in national tournaments and was champion, but when the club advisor changed they were unable to participate in the knockout tournament. However, thanks to the new advisor, students are constantly improving and increasing their skills. While competing to practice their instruments and perform solos, some students prioritize study and drop out of club activities. Finally, the desired day of the contest arrives.
1. Violet Evergarden
Synopsis: The story unfolds around the "Auto Memory Dolls"; people who had originally been hired by a scientist named Dr. Orland to assist his wife Mollie in the task of writing novels, and who then began to be rented to others who required his services. Today, the term refers to the writing industry for others. The story follows Violet Evergarden as she attempts to rejoin society after the end of the war, and her search for meaning in life, now that she no longer belongs to the military.
About Kyoto Animation:
Kyoto Animation is a renowned Japanese animation studio with more than three decades of experience.
Over the past 20 years, this studio was tasked with producing several popular anime titles, including Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu, Lucky Star, K-ON !, Kanon, Air and Clannad.
The study was also behind the popular anime, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, which, as Meiji University professor Ryusuke Hikawa mentions in conversation with NHK, "was one of the first Japanese animations to become popular abroad."
In recent years, Kyoto Animation has also been involved in successful animation series, such as Free !, the anime centered around a swimming club.
Kyoto Animation was also the studio that worked on the popular series, Violet Evergarden, which is available through Netflix and stands out for its great visual quality.
Source: Crunchyroll
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