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 No.18576

Okada claimed that animators are so poor even though the industry attracts more money than ever because the production committee caps the budgets on individual anime titles. This is apparently because of a culture of corporate collusion, where the lead investing company determines beforehand the highest amount every other company in the committee can spend proportionally.

Okada elaborated that because control over the copyright is proportional to the amount of investment, companies will bid to become the highest investor (this is usually 40%). Once they attain this status, they have the power to determine the budget. For example, if the lead investor spends $4 million, the budget would be capped at $10 million.

After the budget has been determined proportionally, production committees will not accept larger investments from outsider (usually foreign) companies. A large investment would be split into separate projects to keep those companies lower down in the production committee. For example, Okada said that if a Chinese company offered to pay for an entire $10 million budget, the production committee would turn their investment into $50,000 chunks across 20 different projects. In other words, to maintain control and profits, the Japanese companies on anime production committees are incentivized to use the surplus from foreign investment to fund other projects instead of increasing an individual title's budget.

 No.18580

>>18576
Part of what makes marvel movies so boring is the budget, they kinda have to be to appeal to most people, that is because they have such a high budget that merely appealing to a subset of people will not cut it, so I say maintaining smaller projects is better. It sucks for animators though

 No.18582

A lot of anime these days feels like shovelware.

 No.18583

>>18580
i mean, have you seen most recent anime though? it's been a mountain of garbage recently. last couple of good seasons was ~2 years ago i believe. some good anime have come out since then, but the oversaturation definetly isn't good for the quality of the anime. i'd rather the industry go back to the 80s and 90s models of producing fewer full anime and more ovas

 No.18585

>>18583
More anime is not bad, the problem is overextended studios that are not able to maintain quality, for this more money is needed yes. In this you are right, but simply increasing the investment cap would naturally lead to studios still over exploiting animators, but having shows look better, while possibly being more generic and Hollywood like. The real answer is unionization, which would lead to raising the investment cap and increasing quality, as workers are not over extended.

But since at this point unionization seems to be impossible, I'm going to go the tankie route, and say that a popular front with the petit bourgeois that wants to keep production budgets low is best, so animators will have to be sacrificed to maintain democracy 😞

 No.18588

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>>18583
>last couple of good seasons was ~2 years ago i believe
ive been reading these exact same words for a over a decade already lmao

 No.18590

>>18588
i'm really not joking though, winter 2021 was filled with kino

 No.18591

>>18585
>at this point unionization seems to be impossible
where did we go wrong bros

 No.18622

Everyone focusing on the "more anime coming out" part and not on "animators get paid shit as usual".


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