After it being announced through the Government Gazette last month, Kyoto Animation confirmed today on the anime studio’s website that they will be merging the operations and rights of Animation Do into Kyoto Animation on November 1.
Do mainly worked as an affiliate to Kyoto Animation, supporting their projects until the Free! anime franchise came along, where Animation Do produced the franchise mostly in-house with support from their sister studio.
Animation Do was a subsidiary of Kyoto Animation with KyoAni president Hideaki Hatta in charge of both companies.