Japan's Massive Number of Anime at Risk if Failing Currency Problems Continue
Japan's Massive Number of Anime at Risk if Failing Currency Problems Continue
Numerous red flags over the future of anime are raised by long-time industry professionals following the Japanese yen's continued fall.
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?
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 :)
Or just show the VAs speaking while waving paper cutout characters.
Also, I could totally see an episode of Blue Lock presented in powerpoint.
They can probably afford to make at least one episode of the official anime look like a Soviet era bootleg
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.
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.
This does tend to happen when global economies begin failing.
Re:Zero isn't going to be remotely wrapped up by the time the Japanese economy collapses, is it 😭
That's right about the time No Game No Life S2 is scheduled for production
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.
I think this is largely of problem of their own making
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.
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.
They can make the official anime look like a Soviet era bootleg