Anime: A $28,000,000,000 Slave Industry

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  @HitRegBroke · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Heya! Hope you enjoyed the video :)<br><br>While I did my best to cover as much as I can in the video, there&apos;s only so much information I can cram before it becomes a very technical explanation that bores everyone to death. So if you want more in depth info (and potential solutions*) here&apos;s an appendix article I wrote on my site: <a href="https://hitregbroke.com/supporters/posts/91921">https://hitregbroke.com/supporters/posts/91921</a><br><br>Also I need more people to VA for me and stuff like that for future videos and people, if u want to come help feel free!: <a href="https://discord.gg/zRGYMHGyaU">https://discord.gg/zRGYMHGyaU</a>

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  @RathouseFilmworks · 2 years ago

  Dear fanbase: None of you are helping the situation by harassing the staff with death threats.

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  @Aeolian550 · 3 years ago

  the amount of unpaid overtime animators work is ungodly, I have to wonder whether or not behind shows like zom 100 are a group of people working their asses off to put out content that describes the very conditions they face but aren&apos;t able to change anything about

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  @Necron00b · 2 years ago

  This was utterly heartbreaking. A generation of amazing creators destroyed by corporate greed, using their love of their work as a weapon.

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  @1erickf50 · 2 years ago

  400 hours in a month is like literally over 16 days straight drawing and producing non stop, not a chance to go home, and barely eating breakfast, lunch and dinner inside the studio.

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  @Salsavarietyhour7 · 2 years ago (edited)

  What’s crazy is how the fan base makes things worse by threatening in general and then harassing the WRONG people. Like guys, getting it wrong twice isn’t gonna bring back some anime from 6 years ago if they can’t afford to eat <br>Edit - wild 1.2k is enough people to change the industry guys let’s try something like boycotting and expressing why it’s wrong. It’s not helpful if it’s just me and some YouTubers 💕with love

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  @halfpintrr · 2 years ago

  I started tearing up. Miyazaki is someone I admire and the pain in his voice, oh wow. And everyone who has passed on it just sucks.

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  @Skp3000 · 2 years ago

  As a jojo fan I know we complain about having to wait 3-5 years between releases for the anime, but at least DP isn’t making workers slave away to get us the anime quicker. <br><br>You can make it take forever so long as you’re being ethical ❤️

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  @ArkayeCh · 2 years ago

  I remember reading Bakuman and one of its chapters I used to like now just upsets me.<br><br>In one chapter, the two Mangaka characters in the series have &quot;made it&quot; by launching a couple titles into serialization. At a high school reunion, most of their former classmates laugh and joke when discussing their careers in a sort of lighthearted manner. Then they spot how blackened, scarred and chipped their fingers and palms are from holding pen and ink all day long. That chapter when I was young seemed like it was trying to say Mangakas are just as important and honorable a career as anything else.<br><br>But now older, I look at that series and chapter in a really different light. Can you imagine being a Tokyo corporate worker with a successful Mangaka friend and seeing those two as the ideal relaxed, content and satisfied career goals people in your student group? Can you imagine how it would feel when you notice how ragged, burned out and destroyed their bodies are for an art you enjoyed as a kid? I would lose all my innocence at that point and become depressingly disillusioned.<br><br>When I read that chapter again, the faces of shock and dull surprise on those classmates don&apos;t tell me they acknowledge the two Mangakas as real career people, it also tells me they&apos;re completely taken aback by how equally corporate and slave-driving it is just like their jobs.

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  @Iamwolf134 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Truth be told, the horrid treatment of animators goes well beyond the anime industry; it&apos;s the near entirety of East Asian work culture that does this. It&apos;s just that&apos;s the anime industry so happens to be the tip of the iceberg.<br>Edit; I also recognize that the near entirety of Visual Arts sees similarly horrendous treatment (albeit to a greater extent across East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea, and even China) across the Spectrum.

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  @nk8244 · 2 years ago

  as someone with an animation degree, when I was in UNI we&apos;d always try to convince anyone who wanted to work in japan to no work in japan. artist&apos;s have known that working in japan is shit for ages

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  @Lapha002 · 2 years ago

  As far as I know, Kyoto Ani was the few studios that gave the animators their health a priority, but since &nbsp;the terrorist attack, they have made their selections for production much more selective

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