What's the future of the Anime industry?

[Netto Azure]

Well I've finished reading JapanAmerica and apparently Jack is right. D:

http://pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=4753167#post4753167

You know what the problem with the anime industry is? It makes crap. Unbelievable, unremarkable crap.

Many of the major studios only got to where they are today through major cost-cutting and excessive pandering to the fringe audiences that promise reliable, if small, financial returns. The studios only get 15% of the money paid by sponsors to produce an anime, with the rest ending up in the hands of advertisers and broadcasters. Much of the grunt work is actually performed by domestic subcontractors and foreign labor in order for the production companies to save money. In the end, however, even with all their cost-cutting and their focus on small but proven audiences, the companies still lose money on every episode they animate (actual costs incurred per episode can range from US$100,000 to US$130,000), and they can't even afford to give their employees decent wages; 25% of all people in the Japanese animation industry only make about US$10,000 a year, if you can believe that. Finally, many of the final products that make it to the air are simply unsuitable for any real mainstream consumption; of course, the ravenous hordes of otaku will latch onto them like the leeches that they are, but they're only a very tiny fraction of the overall consumer base.

It turns out that Nintendo and the studio company that animated Pokemon was screwed over by 4Kids financially during the PokeMania days of yore due to the distribution-based media industry in the US and the old and creaky artist based industry in Japan.

So what do you think? =/

I mean it would be sad that the anime industry in Japan is struggling financially just as it's at the cusp of a Global boom. :<

Will edit later on~

 

[PockyAddict]

Is there a full article of this cause I can't find it on the site? It is interesting.

 

[Netto Azure]

Is there a full article of this cause I can't find it on the site? It is interesting.

I'm sorry to say that it's a whole book and is an in depth analysis of the whole thing.

I managed to find it in my local library system and was able to borrow it. Try that way.

But meh, try these articles =/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3am-asia-2/
http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/the-sky-is-crawling.html
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/05/23/japanese-animators-get-slave-wages-11000-a-year/

 

[PockyAddict]

I'm sorry to say that it's a whole book and is an in depth analysis of the whole thing.

I managed to find it in my local library system and was able to borrow it. Try that way.

But meh, try these articles =/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3am-asia-2/
http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/the-sky-is-crawling.html
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/05/23/japanese-animators-get-slave-wages-11000-a-year/

Opps, I didn't know. ^^;

Although I am interested, I didn't know that the animators on some animes made much likely less, than what someone working in the US makes working minimal wage.

 

[Netto Azure]

Opps, I didn't know. ^^;

Although I am interested, I didn't know that the animators on some animes made much likely less, than what someone working in the US makes working minimal wage.

Oh here's the Google Books thing.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Y7...3Rta4C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4