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oilers2007
Joined: 23 Sep 2022
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 Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 2:10 am
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Will people stop saying anime is dying now?
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Nemu Asahi
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 2:51 am
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| oilers2007 wrote: | | Will people stop saying anime is dying now? |
It is. Because people who work on it are paid slave wages while people who invest in it get all the money. People who want to work on anime are disappearing. People WITH SKILLS are disappearing. People are not getting trained to get those skills...
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Velleluxx
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 3:47 am
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| oilers2007 wrote: | | Will people stop saying anime is dying now? |
People have always said anime is on the decline, but it's just growing. It seems like they’re pretending to hate it because it’s thriving.
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Velleluxx
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:03 am
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| Nemu Asahi wrote: |
| oilers2007 wrote: | | Will people stop saying anime is dying now? |
It is. Because people who work on it are paid slave wages while people who invest in it get all the money. People who want to work on anime are disappearing. People WITH SKILLS are disappearing. People are not getting trained to get those skills... |
That’s not true. There are more studios now than before, which proves people still want to work in anime. If your point were valid, there wouldn't be any anime being produced. Plus, studios have more animators today than they had in the past.
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manapear
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 12:13 pm
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Feels like one has to misread or misinterpret the data to not realize how anime is on a decline/dying.
Look at the numbers when it comes to revenue. There may be more studios now*, but a slight more than half of them are not doing well financially. And Nemu Asahi's point still stands. We're not even sure if there are necessarily more animators; but we do know animation is out-sourced at an astonishing rate. Hard to say if it's more than past decades, but it seems it. I can't recall ever hearing about debacles like the recent one where they couldn't even keep track of who out-sourced to who.
Besides the revenue of studios and the way animators are being very vocal about their treatment still, wasn't it just during this past AX where someone from the industry talked about merchandising being down? Pretty sure the numbers have reflected that too.
There's an over-saturation of low budget anime, workers aren't being treated well, and merchandising is on a bad curve. Those aren't good signs for the industry. And pretending it's going well because greedy people at the top are making enough money to fill their pockets isn't helping anyone, or the industry at large.
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