They did a light novel contest for Chuunibyou iirc. They chose one to get published and to get an anime iirc.
That one wasn't straight up created by the staff, but the approach of it isn't like other adaptations.
After that there's Tamako Market and Free.
Seems like they're finally adapting again with Amagi Brilliant Park.
Isn't that technically adapting, since they're not creating something themselves, but adapt the winner of the contest who isn't on of their's. Well, I know they change a lot at times, but it's still an adaption, yes?Wasn't that bad, but I rather read theories about shows that don't imply it by their own will.
It's a different type of adapting. They didn't have to deal with another publisher since KyoAni published the light novel.
A lot of the profits will go to them compared to works they have to adapt.
It won't be something like where Kadokawa getting a fair chunk of the money.
The only true "original" series KyoAni has done are the Munto OVA/TV/movie series and the Tamako TV/movie series. The other works they've done since October 2012 have new "adaptations" of works submitted to the Kyoto Animation Awards. Yoko Hatta, the planner for KyoAni chose to adapt those works into a TV series and asked Ishihara, Utsumi, and Ishidate to direct those works along with Hanada and Yokotani as series composers. Due to the lack of material (Hanada specifically mentioned how there was only one novel and the outline of another when he and Ishidate composed the anime version of Kyoukai), the TV series have been very loose if not contradicting the original works. Free! is somewhat original and somewhat not. The source material took place in elementary school while Utsumi chose to adapt it into high school as that's when she swam for a team.
What we mean by KyoAni IPs is that they are the publishing house for these materials. While not original, they own the rights to adapt these works and contribute the most to the production committees adapting them into anime. They also are the main part of the "sales company" for videogram sales, which means they get the lion's share of profits from all video disc sales in Japan.
Amagi is a very interesting situation as it combines the two prior companies that KyoAni worked with (TBS and Kadokawa Shoten) and exemplifies how cheap Kadokawa has gotten. Kadokawa wouldn't pay for a full single-cour length show (notice all the 10 episode series, that's Kadokawa at work), so they had to partner with TBS to pay to make the show. This committee hasn't been publicly revealed, so that's all we can say at the moment regarding its makeup. Needless to say, it's published by a branch of Kadokawa Group (Fujimi Shobo) and thus the rights are different than the CTFK series. Takemoto is on record in the latest Newtype as saying he'll be changing things from the novel, so this won't be a 1:1 adaptation either.
Apologies if anything is unclear.