Anime animator reveals dreams of being strangled over huge workloads CrunchyrollAn animator from the anime studio Shaft posted about the stress of working in the medium, stating he\u2019d had dreams of strangulation, and was told he\u2019d be \u201cerased\u201d from the industry for not meeting targets. Hiroto Nagata, who\u2019s worked on a number of anime shows for Shaft, including RWBY: Ice Queendom and Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, made a now-deleted pair of posts on X\/Twitter about how his position has been affecting him mentally. In the first tweet, he wrote that he dreamed of someone from his company strangling him, adding that the feeling lingered after he woke up, but a trip to the hospital showed no health issues. A follow-up confirmed this was due to stringent job requirements, where deadlines loom constantly. \u201cI dreamed about getting strangled by a person in my company and even after I woke up it still hurts for some reason,\u201d he said, as posted on Reddit. \u201cSince that day I\u2019ve had this suffocating feeling as if someone was pressing on my throat. Of course, I got worried and went to the hospital to get it checked, but there was nothing wrong with it.\u201d In the next post, he added that his position in the anime industry has been threatened if he can\u2019t meet standards. \u201cThe production manager says, \u2018If you don\u2019t do well this time, you\u2019ll be erased from the industry,\u2019 so I\u2019m working while crying, telling myself that if I don\u2019t do my best, I\u2019ll be erased, erased,\u201d a repost on Reddit reads. Reports have circulated about harsh conditions within the anime industry for years, with Studio MAPPA, responsible for Jujutsu Kaisen and other juggernauts, being the subject of recent allegations regarding crunch and low wages. A study conducted by the Nippon Anime and Film Culture Association warned the industry could \u201ccollapse\u201d if conditions aren\u2019t improved, since institutional knowledge and long-term careers are becoming rarer and rarer. For more on anime, why not check out everything we know about Tower of God Season 2, Solo Leveling Season 2, and other upcoming anime this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anime animator reveals dreams of being strangled over huge workloads CrunchyrollAn animator from the anime studio Shaft posted about the stress of working in the medium, stating he\u2019d had dreams of strangulation, and was told he\u2019d be \u201cerased\u201d from the industry for not meeting targets. Hiroto Nagata, who\u2019s worked on a number of anime shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}