Japan's Massive Number of Anime at Risk if Failing Currency Problems Continue

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨zabadoh@ani.social⁩ to ⁨anime@ani.social⁩

https://www.cbr.com/anime-industry-japan-failing-currency-problem/

Paraphrasing: “The JPY is too cheap for Japanese studios to continue outsourcing to Korean and Chinese studios”

Huh? Where’s Holo when you need her?

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CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe they can pull a fucking Gintama action and just show the story board and have the characters tell the viewers that the animators didn’t make the deadline :)

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- zabadoh@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or just show the VAs speaking while waving paper cutout characters.
  
  Also, I could totally see an episode of Blue Lock presented in powerpoint.
  
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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They can probably afford to make at least one episode of the official anime look like a Soviet era bootleg
  
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Kissaki@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

alleged that 90% of animators quit their jobs in three years

Insane number. But not implausible to me. Bad working environments with impossible schedules do that.

I wish they would improve working conditions. As an industry, or through regulation because evidently, the industry doesn’t.

To finance it - I wish they would make anime more easily accessible and buyable.

Less oppressive checkboxed mass/standard productions would surely improve what we see as products too.

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- eleventy_7@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I believe most game dev studios have similar levels of turnover for new developers. I guess it shouldn't be surprising, both industies rely on the passion of their employees to get products out the door, while under-paying and overworking them.
  
  The source the article gets that 90% statistic from, the anime dormitory project, is actually a pretty good charity if you're looking for ways to support animators and their working conditions. Right now they're subsidizing housing for more than 10 animators, and I think there's a fundraiser still running at the moment that's trying to make real change to improve the industry's working standards overall. Here's a recent YouTube video they made on the subject.
  
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This does tend to happen when global economies begin failing.

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liquidparasyte@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Re:Zero isn’t going to be remotely wrapped up by the time the Japanese economy collapses, is it 😭

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- zabadoh@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s right about the time No Game No Life S2 is scheduled for production
  
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ReluctantZen@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They could invest in their own domestic animators instead of paying them scraps while demanding a lot. Maybe they’d stick around then and you won’t need to outsource anymore.

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Kissaki@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I recently watched Back Street Girls: Gokudols, which has a very low frame and animation count. It still worked well as a comedy. It was enough.

Not that I want anime to be that way, but it can work for some.

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- zabadoh@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Every season, there are some shows that have bottom-of-the-barrel art quality and framerates.
  
  But when I say that, the quality at the lower end of production is about comparable to the old school broadcast TV shows, just not up to today’s high standards.
  
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