Anime Is Booming. So Why Are Animators Living in Poverty? (Published 2021)

Tokyo’s Akihabara district, a center of anime culture. The industry’s boom has only widened the gap between profits and wages.Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times TOKYO — Business has never been better for Japanese anime. And that is exactly why Tetsuya Akutsu is thinking about calling it quits. When Mr. Akutsu became an animator eight years ago, the global anime market — including TV sh

[bluesura]

Netflixが日本に関わる以上、否が応でも外から日本のアニメ業界への厳しい目がそそがれるなぁ。は？→"政府は問題を認識しているが、アニメーターが苦情を申し立てない限り、ほとんど頼ることができない"'(自動翻訳)

[nunux]

https://twitter.com/masatheman/status/1365484222073331713?s=21

[yosida95]

"a “douga-man,” the entry-level animators who do the frame-by-frame work that transforms a genga man’s illustrations into illusions of seamless motion." "Not all studios pay such low wages: Kyoto Animation"

[Rouble]

"These workers earned an average of $12,000 in 2019, the animation association found, though it cautioned that this figure was based on a limited sample that did not include many of the freelancers who are paid even less."

[takuver4]

酔っ払って読めなかった。明日こそ読みたい。