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INTEREST: Akira Film Easter Egg Hints at Artist's Exasperation With the Workload

I've seen bits in manga like this too, teeny-tiny signs hardly meant to be noticed as anything more than background art but if you do take the time to peer in close and investigate you might get a message from the artist like "wow, thanks for taking the time to read all this to the very end" or "lately i'm craving this snack" or other stuff that's neither here nor there. I don't think it's unprofessional, but rather a creative way of filling up space with something other than complete gibberish, something that may cause a few watchers to smile or even just think for a moment of the human effort that went into the work.

There's fun easter eggs, and then there's whining about having to do your job. I personally find the latter quite unprofessional.

lys wrote:

I've seen bits in manga like this too, teeny-tiny signs hardly meant to be noticed as anything more than background art but if you do take the time to peer in close and investigate you might get a message from the artist like "wow, thanks for taking the time to read all this to the very end" or "lately i'm craving this snack" or other stuff that's neither here nor there. I don't think it's unprofessional, but rather a creative way of filling up space with something other than complete gibberish, something that may cause a few watchers to smile or even just think for a moment of the human effort that went into the work.

It's not the easter egg itself that I find unprofessional, but rather the specific thing this person wrote.

I agree that little, harmless things like a thanks or talking about snacks can be a fun, cute way to fill space, but the person in the article wrote, "Why do we have to draw every detail?" Like, dude.. You have to draw every detail because it's your job.

Can you imagine paying someone to paint your house, and then find out that instead of painting one panel, they just wrote in sharpie, "Why do you need every inch of your house painted? C'mon!" That's a completely different story than if the house was painted properly, but then you found they drew a smiley face in the corner of one brick or something.

There's fun easter eggs, and then there's whining about having to do your job. I personally find the latter quite unprofessional.

This reminds me of a rumor saying that in the credits of an anime there was a hidden message in the name of one of the animators apologizing for the bad animation that the show had, but it turned out that people had misinterpreted the meaning of a kanji. Anyway, this is pretty close to that rumor, perhaps there are more anime with hidden messages left by the animators.