Anime industry at risk of \u201ccollapse\u201d if working conditions don\u2019t improve CrunchyrollThe anime industry could have serious issues in the future, if current poor conditions for workers aren\u2019t addressed, a new report states. Stagnation due to overworking staff is creating risk of \u201ccollapse\u201d, as institutional knowledge decreases. That\u2019s among the findings by Nippon Anime and Film Culture Association, a body which seeks to identify problems within anime, and improve them for production staff. A survey conducted by the organization has yielded several worrisome results across people working on anime shows and anime movies. Poor wages and overtime are common, with some earning as little as $4 an hour, amid working over 300 hours a month. Exhaustion creates a wide variety of problems, one of which is that there\u2019s less resource for training and passing down knowledge. Those who stick around in anime production can\u2019t teach newer creatives as much of what they know because of the crunch. If this trajectory is maintained, NAFCA states, \u201cthe technology in the anime industry will eventually stagnate and the industry itself may collapse.\u201d Besides being overworked, morale is low due to harassment. Over 65% of respondents answered that they\u2019d been victim to some form of harassment, another 85% stating they\u2019d \u201cseen or heard\u201d harassment. These findings come on the heels of several allegations that have been made over the last few years concerning crunch in the industry. Staff at Madhouse, MAPPA, and other studios have commented on the difficult conditions at the companies, and the ill-health they\u2019ve suffered as a result. It remains to be seen what changes might come as a result of NAFCA\u2019s investigations. We\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anime industry at risk of \u201ccollapse\u201d if working conditions don\u2019t improve CrunchyrollThe anime industry could have serious issues in the future, if current poor conditions for workers aren\u2019t addressed, a new report states. Stagnation due to overworking staff is creating risk of \u201ccollapse\u201d, as institutional knowledge decreases. That\u2019s among the findings by Nippon Anime and […]<\/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-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","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=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}