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The television anime Clannad begins airing, a Kyoto Animation adaptation of Key's visual novel about delinquent high schooler Tomoya Okazaki and the people he meets, including gentle upperclassman Nagisa Furukawa.

Kyoto Animation releases Clannad: Another World, Tomoyo Chapter, a single-episode OVA retelling the anime's finale from an alternate timeline centered on Tomoya and Tomoyo's relationship.

Kyoto Animation releases a standalone Lucky☆Star OVA, six unconnected bonus vignettes starring Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa, and the rest of the cast, including an MMORPG story arc and a surreal dream sequence.

Kyoto Animation's sequel series Clannad: After Story begins airing, following Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa into adulthood after the events of the first Clannad season.

A bonus OVA on Clannad After Story's final DVD volume reimagines the story from an alternate timeline, casting Fujibayashi Kyou as the series' central heroine in place of Nagisa.

A bonus K-ON!! OVA has the Sakuragaoka light music club performing at a live house on New Year's Eve, sharing the bill with other young bands at the invitation of one of Ritsu's middle-school friends.

Kyoto Animation's The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya opens in Japanese theaters, finding Kyon alone remembering the SOS Brigade after Haruhi, Mikuru, and Itsuki vanish from an altered world where none of them ever existed.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus K-ON!! episode bundled with the series' ninth Blu-ray/DVD volume, following the Light Music Club as they apply for passports ahead of a planned overseas trip.

K-ON!: The Movie releases in Japanese theaters, sending the Light Music Club's graduating members on one last overseas trip to London before they part ways.

Kyoto Animation's Hyouka begins broadcast, adapting Honobu Yonezawa's Classic Literature Club light novels as reluctant sleuth Houtarou Oreki is drawn into solving his high school club's small, long-buried mysteries.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus OVA for Free! -Eternal Summer-, an unaired episode bundled with the seventh Blu-ray/DVD volume revisiting the Iwatobi Swim Club cast in a lighter, comedic story.

Kyoto Animation's A Silent Voice opens in Japan, adapted from Yoshitoki Oima's manga about a former bully who seeks to make amends with a deaf classmate he once tormented.

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Valentines and Hot Springs! is a bonus OVA episode bundled with the series' home video release, in which Tohru's Valentine's chocolate scheme backfires before the household heads to a hot spring.

Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden begins airing, following a former child soldier who becomes a letter-writing "Auto Memory Doll" to understand the meaning of the last words her commanding officer told her.

Liz and the Blue Bird releases in Japanese theaters, a Kyoto Animation spin-off of the Sound! Euphonium franchise directed by Naoko Yamada, centered on oboist Mizore and flutist Nozomi as they prepare a delicate duet together.

Violet Evergarden: Kitto "Ai" wo Shiru Hi ga Kuru no Darou, a bonus OVA bundled with the TV series' home release, premieres, following Violet as she struggles to ghostwrite a love letter for a famous opera singer.

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll opens in Japanese theaters, a Kyoto Animation side story following Violet Evergarden as she tutors a grieving heiress, Isabella York, in the ways of high society.

Kyoto Animation closes out the Violet Evergarden TV series with a theatrical feature, following the former child soldier turned letter-writing Auto Memory Doll as she reckons with grief and an unresolved promise from her past.

Violet Evergarden: Recollections streams, a Kyoto Animation recap special revisiting Violet Evergarden's journey as an Auto Memory Doll ahead of the franchise's continuing theatrical run.

An unaired bonus episode of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S releases on the season's Blu-ray, following Kobayashi and her household of dragons through a lighthearted look at Japanese hospitality customs.

Sound! Euphonium 3 follows Kumiko Oumae's final year at Kitauji High School, now band president, as she pushes the more than 90-member concert band toward the nationals gold it has long chased.

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved opens in Japanese theaters, a Kyoto Animation film that draws Kanna back to the Dragon World and threatens the found family she built with Kobayashi and Tohru.

Sparks of Tomorrow begins broadcast, a Kyoto Animation period drama set in 1907 Kyoto about a sake brewer's daughter drawn into a search for a lost book of electrical predictions.