Anime technical director Taiki Nishimura reported on his Twitter account on Monday that his monthly income is 100,000 yen (about US$900) for each anime that he works on. Nishimura noted that he has been working in the anime industry for 20 years.
Nishimura said that he needs at least 150,000 yen (US$1,350) to 200,000 yen (US$1,800) in income per month. He said that he wants to concentrate on one anime at a time, but he has to work on two television anime to have enough income. Nishimura said that he receives about 230,000 yen (US$2,070) per anime, and each anime takes about two months to complete. As a result, his monthly income per anime is about 100,000 yen (about US$900).
Nishimura added that the most he has earned in total pay for an anime so far is 300,000 yen (US$2,700), and the least is 160,000 yen (US$1,440). He said that the anime with the highest pay was produced at a medium-sized production company, and the anime with the lowest pay was at a major production company. Nishimura said that the anime for which he received that highest pay had major big-name sponsors.
Just let Japanese society collapse, it'll be for the best.
Carson Price
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Tyler Scott
I want japan to collapse so bad so we can rub japanese failures back at capitalists plus a world without anime can only befit Holla Forumsmmunism
Brayden Myers
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Oliver Barnes
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Hudson Walker
Not all anime is mass-produced moe, ecchi, harem, or other self-insert shit, you know.
Easton Garcia
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Logan Campbell
It just blew my mind how awesome commie anime could be. It would be like when the Soviet Union exploded with art in the early days, but this time with tentacle porn.
John Lee
And I thought America was class cucked
Jack Morales
ofc there would be demand, quality would be much better without the constant demand to sell shit allowing industry to focus on actually interesting works instead of LN adaptations and massive otaku obsession markets.
Zachary Thompson
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Matthew Myers
It's a wonder how Japan ain't gone full communist by now. The country's under such pressure that it ain't rare to see men in suits and ties laying passed out in public from exhaustion.
David Stewart
It'll be so radically different from what weeb faggots want that it'll likely develop into a new genre of entertainment
Most non-Western communists see left wing politics as a rejection of Western influence though, and not in the tankie closet-liberal sense.
James Phillips
Every anime would be like the riot/biking scenes in Akira
Jonathan Edwards
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James Thomas
But it would in some format, unless we are going to destroy Japanese language and going full cultural revolution on all aspects of pre-revolutionary society.
Liam Lewis
Eastern Block culture was generally really high-tier period. Czechoslovak and Polish filmography stand out in particular (I recommend for example googling up Polish film posters). Then there are all the composers from the Eastern Block too. Then the free market sorts it out and it all goes to shit culturally. Cinemas dominated by low-brow Hollywood shit, pandering to the lowest denominator whereas previously the public media held as its job providing culture of high standard. With film and tv shows in particular very little surpasses the huge classics from the 70s. So yes, given the conditions of artistic integrity untainted by capitalism's profit-margin obsession, some good shit could be made.
Logan Reyes
Since you guys are on the subject of superior soviet art, I've read a few books of "The best of soviet science fiction" and also watch Stalker 1979 (Really enjoyed the video game series) a few years ago and i personally wasn't all that enthralled, I guess that stuff is 2deep4me. Then again I'm not a big movie buff. Most movies i enjoy is shit from the 80's and early 90's.
Luke Scott
Japan will probably be a bastion of capitalism and reaction longer than even the US. They take class cuckery to the next level
Stop thinking "it's only cartoons". When it comes to Japan, it's equal to hollywood/netflix.
Gabriel Robinson
I'm not surprised they make shitloads of money. I'm surprised they make 10 times what producers or directors make.
Ayden Lewis
In the west, the director gets more money, as he is more recognized and so on.
In animu, unless you are Miyazaki or something, AKA you have your own studio, there are countless directors and most of them are only doing what they are told.
A tier voice actor though, is gonna secure your animu has the greatest audience and will sell the most merchandise.
A1 pictures is the epitome of "factory made animation, give all the money to voice and cool CG battle scenes".
Also, animators are lowest level, exactly because the reserve army of labor is infinite.
Popular voice actor, reserve army tough…
Leo Smith
Please notice it's the most famous voice actors only. Novices and unknown voice actors get paid miserably too.
Jaxon Kelly
There is literally one silver-lining:
The cheap labor means the Japanese can afford to make real high-quality animation, like how US animators would make in the Golden Age before outsourcing was logistically possible.
Adrian Rogers
Japanese animation is dead. Most of the actual labor is done by koreans now, unless you count digital animation as labor that is.
Caleb Richardson
> to make real high-quality animation mass produced shit for mass consumption with no artistic or cultural value
Fixed it for you.
Leo Cooper
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Andrew Taylor
Please don't make me link to John K. blog posts.
Ethan Cox
And then the whole thing is retold as a beautifully drawn animu with at least 52 episodes and an all-star VA cast, but one of the episodes is a non-canon half-hour shitpost where everybody is a 7-dicked loli futa.
David Price
The way Marx envisioned.
Chase Turner
The actors are basically in the movie industry while everyone else is in the TV industry, tv directors don't get shit.
Thomas Torres
It's like some kind of gommie Yukio Mishima
Cameron Miller
wtf I hate communism now
Nathan Green
What is the "tankie closet-liberal" sense?
Tyler Ward
if they are a famous one, they're obviously wanted for a lot of projects
its easy marketing for the anime as well, to have famous voice actors in it.
Joshua Clark
this is actually kind of bullshit
Kyoto Animation, for example, doesn't outsource much anything at all. They have some of the best work conditions, too, and are certainly creating some of the technically best anime in Japan nowadays (content-wise, they wary from shit to great).
Also, when anime studios do outsource animation work to Korea, it mostly means in-between animation. They have Japanese do the "key frames". They do the critical work in Japan, outsource the non-creative part to Korea. That is not the actual labour: without the in-between animation, you'd have an almost-complete anime anyway, without the Jap work, you'd have a small part only.
Honestly seeing discussions like this has at least convinced me that most communists are morons. Communism is a good system, but almost everyone who advocates for it is a fundamentally terrible person.
Nicholas Hughes
This is fucked. The graph shouldn't be so steep and voice actors shouldn't get paid more than episode directors. No wonder they have to resort to shitty 3D animation for the new Berserk. Raise animator salaries, goddamn japs! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Juan Gomez
My dude, it's going to get this bad no matter what. It has to get this bad before capitalism fails to reproduce itself. Would you rather it get this bad slowly and for more generations to live and die under capitalism or for it to get this bad as fast as possible so we can move on and build a better world for everyone?
Juan Reed
Not really.
Landon Price
It may be very useful in raising class consciousness to point out to people that the market bends to the demands of obsessives and junkies who will outspend any other consumer group. Vid related.
Hunter Peterson
so many shows are just plain unwatchable garbage with a garish mix of CGI and ugly digitally colored 2D and all the money is going to some celebrity whore to say a couple lines
it makes perfect sense though. the Japanese entertainment industry is run through talent agencies who are in turn run by the mafia
they approach producers and say "this is who is going to be cast in your show" Often times it's not even an actor, but a pop star or somebody else with no relevant experience. It's why Japanese media on the whole is stagnant with terrible production values
Lucas Reyes
In modern day Japan, the two genders are cute grill and neckbeard sans beard.
