The studio Kyoto Animation announced on Thursday that it is suspending the Kyoto Animation Awards for now.
The studio had already canceled the 11th Kyoto Animation Awards last November, after the fire that killed 36 at its Studio 1 building earlier that July.
Submissions in the Kyoto Animation Awards have also inspired the Free!
The Violet Evergarden anime series debuted in January 2018, and an original video anime, a side story to the Violet Evergarden anime, opened in Japan on September 6, 2019.