Hidamari Sketch
The early-to-mid 2010s brought more changes to the studio's creative staff. Kenichi Ishikura left after serving as assistant director on "Mahō Sensei Negima! Anime Final" in 2011, Shinichi Omata left the studio around 2012 (his final credit being storyboard work for "Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb" (2012)), and Naoyuki Tatsuwa left after directing "Gourmet Girl Graffiti" in 2015. A number of other notable directors joined at this time, such as directors Yuki Yase, Kenjirou Okada, Hajime Ootani, and Midori Yoshizawa. Tatsuya Oishi disappeared from the public spotlight in the early 2010s after about four years directing the "Kizumonogatari" film trilogy, released in 2016 and 2017. Shaft's animation work on the trilogy has been praised as being uniquely experimental with 2D and CG effects, which some reviewers described as not always mixing well, but has nonetheless been called "gorgeous."