Forum - View topicNEWS: Say Hello to Black Jack's Sato Discloses Expenses, Income
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Banken
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That's really interesting.
On the other hand, he would have earned $57,000 for two weeks worth of sales on just one volume, so I don't think he's hurting too much. Pretty good for someone who draws comic books. I bet artists like Taito Kubo, et. al get paid 5X+ per page as this guy though. Rumiko Takahashi was well known for being a multi-millionaire. |
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kokuryu
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Wow, real figures! This sheds some light on the whole anime / manga industry for everyone! But I think the rates are comparable to what is being paid in the US for similar work... its just that the artists themselves are usually not independants, but work for a group, so the cost is spread around to the inkers, backgrounders, etc.
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melonbread
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I can see why she kept Inu Yasha running for all that time then =) |
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GATSU
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So he doesn't actually get to take much money home with him, then? And taxes must be a bitch, too. Poor guy.
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haido
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so does this mean that sato has to paid his own staff or the company he works for pays the staff im lost there
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CCSYueh
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The artist pays his staff. |
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leongsh
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Fascinating look at the expenses. Paying ¥18m in salaries to his 6 assistants to earn ¥16m and covering the difference from manga volume sales. Using the figures provided for the 5th volume sold, he earned ¥5.7m of which ¥2m will be used to cover the shortfall mentioned above. Thus, leaving him with ¥3.7m as net earnings. of course, the earnings from the earlier volumes will also trickle in. It isn't a lot. It's even worse for his assistants. Tough profession. You need quite a bit of madness, persistence, commitment and a whole lot of love for manga to stay in it.
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Banken
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In case you weren't paying attention, the $57,000 was just two weeks of sales of ONE volume.
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babbo
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Banken
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Well, if they sell more than 100,000 copies in two weeks, I'd think it's safe to say it'll sell at least 500,000 copies in say, a year. That's $250,000 in income.
Now let's assume the previous four volumes will sell, say, 300,000 copies this year. That's another 150,000. So he might be making around 500,000 a year. That's really not bad for a profession known for starvation. |
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babbo
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Banken
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Yes, they are. But I think they're reasonable, and conservative estimates.
Believe me, I know ALL about the used book market in Japan. That's where 99.9 of my manga collection comes from. Even when you consider how many people either read in stores (which always annoyed the hell out of me), only buy used, or only read the magazines, the circulation for compiled volumes is still massive. |
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