Kyoto Animation Alliance

Kyoto Animation Alliance
Name	Kyoto Animation Alliance
AKA	KyoAni Alliance, KyoAni
Description	A group of people from different KyoAni communities united as one to create and protect murals of different animes.
Subcommunities	Hyouka,Nichijou,Clannad,K-On!,Hibike Euphonium,Violet Evergarden
Subreddit	r /kyoani
Discord	https://discord.gg/7ACY6UzXA6
Website	https://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/en/

Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社京都アニメーション, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Kyōto Animēshon), often abbreviated KyoAni (京アニ, Kyōani), is a Japanese animation studio and light novel publisher located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture. Founded in 1981 by Yoko and Hideaki Hatta, it has produced anime works including The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006), Clannad (2007), K-On! (2009), Free! (2013), Sound! Euphonium (2015), A Silent Voice (2016), and Violet Evergarden (2018).

The Kyoto Animation Alliance is a collaborative group of different KyoAni communities united as one to pay tribute to the animation studio that made the best slice of life animes. Started from a Hyouka group, it expanded to an alliance of other communities to help each other create memorials for their respective animes; not just Hyouka, but also Nichijou, Clannad, Violtet Evergarden, K-On, and more.

r/place 2022

Pre-Alliance Period

Fallen Hyouka Murals

The Hyouka group made 3 murals before forming the KyoAni alliance.

First Location

Timelapse of the first Hyouka Mural

The Hyouka community started off with a small banner, nothing big. They had their hopes on defending their banner and keeping it until the event ends, but they were attacked by the Romanians above them. They knew they couldn’t stand a chance on taking their place back, so they decided to search for some where else.

Second Location

They found out the German's territory started withering away. They took their chance and started their build there. they were happy about their second success until the Germans woke up. They demolished their work in just a split second. They still had their hopes up, and searched for another location.

Third Location

Their next spot was a rectangular spot under the art from the Viking’s. It belonged to the Louisiana State University (LSU). But then the Hyouka community took it and made it theirs. Yes, they didn’t care. They made a treaty with the vikings, in which they decided to stay neutral, and everything seemed finished. They all thought this was their final stop on their journey, but they they were wrong. The LSC guys were back. They tried to take their place back but the Hyouka community held them off. As they they were fighting for the place, a third player joined the game. A streamer named “Joeseppi” with his fans struck their place and claimed it his.

After three failures, they understood they couldn’t do this alone. So they decided to unite their fellow kyoani comrades, and set off their new journey together.

Alliance Formation Period

The KyoAni Mural is the main headquarters of the KyoAni Alliance.

KyoAni Mural History

When the imprisoned emoji work that a russian streamer placed was withering away, they took their chance and made their ground on top of The Great Wave off Kanagawa. We planned to put something extra on top of the banner, but they scrapped it because the area was beginnng to be inhabited by their neighbours. We they were happy with their first iteration of the banner, until another streamer by the name of Foolish_Gamer wiped the spot clean to put his shark right beside them where the banner is supposed to be. They were forced to downgrade and remove the chibi characters, now only showing the KyoAni logo. To make up for the loss of the loss of their chibi characters, they took the spot diagonal to them and made a four panel chibi thing with characters voted by the community (namely Haruhi Suzumiya, Eru Chitanda, Tohru Kobayashi, and Yui Hirasawa). A moment of peace was achieved. They made alliances with their neighbtheirs.

Soon though the russian streamer who made the imprisoned emoji earlier came back to terrorise them and build another work, this time being a picture of himself being a clown. He planned to completely bulldoze everyone including them, except for the chibi characters. The invasion started on the top right, where LapfoxTrax, Beastars/FMA, Steven Universe and the other factions were easily wiped out by the sudden attack. The russian streamer calls it, The CUM Void, but let's refrain from calling it that here. Kobo Kanaeru (the blue haired girl) and the shark held up and stood strong pretty well at first, but it wasn't enough and soon the shark was loosing ground, follotheyd by Kobo. As soon those two fell, Nijisanji East (with the pink bg and some of the square head character below them), Harry Styles (the thing looking like an arch), KyoAni and Ayaka Sunohara (beside KyoAni) are next. We quickly got overrun, but they have strategies and tactics prepared to combat the spread. Since maintaining the banner isn't working, they first tasked their soldiers to only hold up the borders. We can build the banner later as long as they have borders to mark their territory. But that wasn't enough. We then combined forces with Nijisanji East and their tactic now was to defend the top Nijisanji border. As long as there's a border, the streamer cannot start building his image. Since they have allies on all sides, they can entrust them not to take this opportunity to expand their territory. All of them need to endure and maintain the border as long as they can. His forces are soon weakened, and they can now begin to rebuild their respective borders and factions. Someone. He desperately tried to build an image of a girl, but their allies are already taking back their land and soon gave up. They won the battle against the russian streamer.

They ended up with a bit of extra space than before because they chipped away at their right neighbour, Ayaka Sunohara, to be square instead of rectangle. Since they had a bit more space, they decided to put something extra on the side. The first iteration was to put Konata Izumi peaking sideways, but they changed it to a globe. We added shading to the banner, and it was beautiful. For some reason, while their allies were rebuilding their compounds, there was a rogue Kumiko Oumae below the bottom right space of Nijisanji East. They kept her there for a bit, until a small streamer named Jelledot used the space instead after he tried to draw on the spot where Ayaka Sunohara is supposed to be unknowingly. They let him move north to replace Kumiko because they considered that space vacant instead one of their own. Their soldiers wanted to do a re-vote to either keep tohru or replace her with Konata in the chibi sector. Konata won and Tohru was forced to die. They also decided to change the background colour while they're at it, but the white background stayed. Peace was thriving.

The green line stumbled across the bottom of their banner. It first wanted to go up to the top border of the chibi girls, but they wanted to let it slither at the bottom instead. Eventually it changed its mind and now wanted to go down to the wave. The wave didn't really liked that though. Peace and prosperity was granted upon us until the final days of r/place. Suddenly, a small Kumiko appeared on the bottom left of a faction a different streamer made right above Kobo. We pitched in to help as well, adding Reina beside her and making Kumiko say "geh", though the project wasn't complete due an attack of the faction it resides in. Nijisanji also tried to take the spot in the middle of it, unknowing for both groups that one was trying to build on top of the other. Suddenly, all of the available colours turned into white. This was a signal for the end of r/place. The canvas has begun to degrade and fade away back to its original image. A path of white blasted right through the KyoAni Banner. The Chibi Girls and everything else withered away, pixel by pixel. All things must come to an end at some point.