My Life In Fandom: #KyoAni Update

We finally got some good news after all the death and destruction.

【欠損なし】京アニ、焼損免れたサーバーからデータを回収https://t.co/1Yb1keIGsR

専門家の協力を得て作業にあたり、取り出したという。データにはデジタル化された原画などが含まれていたとのこと。

— ライブドアニュース (@livedoornews) July 29, 2019

Which translates to: Kyoani collects data from burn-out-free servers It is said that it took it out to work with the cooperation of the expert. The data included digitized originals. The article, in Japanese, is here. TL/DR? They saved the servers, so the digital assets survived the fire.

Then came this statement from the company's CEO, translated into English and several other languages:

Kyoto Animation's CEO, Hideaki Hatta, wrote a message on the company website titled: "世界中の皆さまへ" (Sekaijuu no mina-sama e) "To everyone in the world"https://t.co/nBL2eMAepq pic.twitter.com/Sd3h2gpgtN

— 「アニメは辛い」原画子ちゃんが言った。 (@FARfromani) July 29, 2019

I pray that this company and its employees make a full recovery, and the families of the slain find both justice and peace to comfort them for their loss. As I said previously, Kyoto Animation doesn't usually put out the sort of anime I prefer to watch. What they do produce, however, tends to be not only popular with their target audiences but often well regarded on purely aesthetic grounds as well as on technical ones. (Again, see Violet Evergarden.) The reaction worldwide by anime fans to this event has been great to witness, and it has exposed plenty of hollow-chested bugmen for the frauds that they are.

Time to get myself some hardcopies of Full Metal Panic.