This is very probably a fake inserted on the KyoAni site by vandals. Here is my reasoning:
1. No press release would say “because he has not reached the level of being a director yet,” as I read this one to do.
2. The announcement was posted sometime between midnight and 3am Monday morning, when staff is normally not at work.
3. Episode five will already have been completed by now.
4. The announcement opens in a small new window, unlike other announcements in the news list.
5. The announcement page was made in Adobe GoLive, using the “x-sjis” character set. The rest of the site appears to be simply in “shift_jis” and gives no creating software.
In my opinion, Lucky Star is a unique and superior show, and one of the best comedy anime I have ever seen, at a higher level of humor than all but a few other anime.
It seems to me likely that some kimo-ota, emboldened by their success over Gurren Lagen, are now turning their sights on someone else with a higher aesthetic sense than theirs.
Time will tell.
转贴。。。。。。。。。。 = =
