God damn, this is the worst thing I heard all decade. I don't even like Kyoani, but they didn't deserve this, and not for the stupid reason it was done for.

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Except for a significant percent of the studio's workforce, and presumably a vast amount of animation. We don't even know ho's dead yet, there's probably some famous people in there.
Kyoani's effectively dead as a studio now.