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NEWS: AJA: Anime Industry Grew by 13.3% in 2021

I'm no expert, but is there a way for the record streaming revenues to actually make their way into animator pay slips? Both Japan and the rest of the world have animator pay at a level not commensurate with the long hours and pressure they find themselves in each project; not to mention the profit margin for even the biggest hits isn't enough to save them from the taxman.

It's still a big industry and one which is still growing despite pressure from other overseas offerings, but somehow I don't think the current model is sustainable when it feels each season is another bumper crop from the previous one and there's only so many eyeballs to go around.

Do you feel like the market is oversaturated at the moment? Too many shows per season and not enough time to watch all the good ones?

JustMonika wrote:

Do you feel like the market is oversaturated at the moment? Too many shows per season and not enough time to watch all the good ones?

If anything, it's basically the same as always, outside of the COVID years that affected the production of many shows and reduced the number - you can only feel how many series are actually in the season because nowadays streaming services pick nearly all of them and not a few chosen titles.

No way,if you got back pre 2010 it was not as saturated as it is now, to many titles are being produced at a record pace, the industry itself is suffering cause they can't keep up with the demand, i kind of want them to slow down a bit and give more attention to some particular projects rather than a quick production and move to the next.

you can only feel how many series are actually in the season because nowadays streaming services pick nearly all of them and not a few chosen titles.

I think most people will agree we're in an overproduction crisis.

The big difference now is that anime feels like an ad, an afterthought, for something else (LN/game/manga/idols), instead of being the main attraction. For better or worse anime economics is increasingly tied to Big Gaming and Big Publishing now: Bandai buying out Sunrise, Kadokawa investing in ENGI/Kinema Citrus, Sony owning Aniplex and its studios A-1 Pictures and CloverWorks.

Wait, wasn't it ALWAYS like that and anime series were seen from the production aspect as nothing but glorified ads from ancient times, even before Japanese bubble crashed and the production committees system was established?

Cause nearly all Japanese TV animation since the '70s was just made to promote the toys or manga, and even the originals were made in some kind of multimedia franchising in the mind - and it's barely changed since, especially when the money for it usually came from publishers/game developers/music labels/other sources. And most of the profits also come to them too, making a lot of animation studios doing business in red and not participating as part of PC at all, so even if the anime blows, the actual animators get nothing but peanuts with a paycheck.

There is no difference at all.

While there were also plenty of manga/LN adaptations two decades ago, proportionally speaking (and this is just my speculation) more of those were adapted near or after the original source ended, something I see much less these days.

Yeah, there were cases like Azumanga Daioh and Death Note. But in more recent years we've had Assassination Classroom, Demon Slayer, Erased. I'm really not sure the cross-promotional aspect has changed that much.