After announcing through their website on August 14 that the 11th Kyoto Animation Award would be suspended until further notice, Kyoto Animation confirmed on November 20 that the award would be canceled this year.
The school is set up in Kyoto Animation Studio 2 and Osaka, near Animation Do.
The newly updated website has been set up with a message from Kyoto Animation director Taichi Ishidate, who talked about animation as a moving picture, and Kyoto Animation background artist Tomoki Hiraishi, who discussed the heartbreak of the incident.