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INTEREST: Anime Director Shinji Takamatsu Discusses Influence of Chinese Streaming on Anime Producti

I mean, it makes sense, i watched a graph were China just annihilates the west in profits for anime studios, so of course most studios are gonna make everything they can to fit in the chinese market, since over here people just wanna have anime "for free".

Anime studios are not stupid, if they need to turn their backs on the West to continue to survive, they will do it 100%.

In the same graph, the US beat Japan. Also, it would be a bad move to turn their backs to another big market
Anyway, pay the animators and stop overworking them. Also, three-month check is nonsense

Anime studios are not stupid, if they need to turn their backs on the West to continue to survive, they will do it 100%.

But I think we all know this is just going to mean even more grossly underpaid bodies thrown at the problem in a desperate bid to keep up the current (and frankly ludicrous) pace of shows being made on already tight budgets on even tighter deadlines. Forget squeezing blood from stones, I think they’re trying to wring blood from gravel here.

whiskeyii wrote:

But I think we all know this is just going to mean even more grossly underpaid bodies thrown at the problem in a desperate bid to keep up the current (and frankly ludicrous) pace of shows being made on already tight budgets on even tighter deadlines. Forget squeezing blood from stones, I think they’re trying to wring blood from gravel here.

Exactly what I think this will be end result. It is not like they are going to give up the West as a market, but nor will they even try to stay away from the Chinese market just because the schedule is tighter and the content is more limited. So someone is going to be squeezed, and you bet it will be the animators, the people who actually work on the show.

The comment section on twitter trend towards that artistic integrity should not be sacrificed for profit. While this is good in theory, in reality, money talks, so unless people vote with their money and completely tank all shows that kneel for the Chinese market, the artistic will be sacrificed for sure. Actually, it already has.

China's policy seems like it doesn't understand the concept of trust. What if Japanese studios could promise to produce a show with respect to Chinese standards on violence, sex and other aspects to make it appropriate for Chinese audiences? Continue releasing and animating on a weekly or monthly schedule. China gets what it wants and Japanese creators are afforded a more flexible production schedule. Perhaps with the greater flexibility they could coproduce another version of a series that meets the standards of Japanese and Western fans (as much violence, fanservice and mature content that is permissible by Japanese censors or if needed, direct to video).

I mean that works in theory, but sometimes people interpret things differently. What "Acceptable Violence" means to a Chinese Bureaucrat and a Japanese Director might not be the same, and unless there's someone in the office while the anime is being made that mistake might not be realized until the anime is done.