{"id":11909,"date":"2025-01-28T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/jujutsu-kaisen-animators-slam-mappa-for-poor-working-conditions-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:09:41","slug":"jujutsu-kaisen-animators-slam-mappa-for-poor-working-conditions-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/jujutsu-kaisen-animators-slam-mappa-for-poor-working-conditions-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Jujutsu Kaisen animators slam MAPPA for poor working conditions &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jujutsu Kaisen animators slam MAPPA for poor working conditions CrunchyrollA number of Jujutsu Kaisen animators have spoken out against animation studio MAPPA for the \u201chell\u201d like working conditions, as staff were made to sign NDAs. MAPPA has become one of the biggest names in the anime world, despite only being founded in 2011. Over the last few years, the studio has wowed fans with its animation work on some of the biggest shows, including Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga, Chainsaw Man, and Jujutsu Kaisen. However, its immense growth to the top of the booming anime industry has not been all positive. In 2021, animators hit out against MAPPA for their \u201cfactory\u201d like working conditions when producing Attack on Titan, with workers criticizing their decision to work on four shows at the same time. Now, staff are claiming they were made to sign NDAs to not talk about the poor working conditions surrounding their work on Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2. Jujutsu Kaisen animators call out MAPPA for \u201chell\u201d working conditions One user took to Twitter\/X to share the situation, in a post that has since gone viral. \u201cMAPPA has just made the Jujutsu Kaisen Staff sign a confidentiality contract so that they do not express complaints about the production,\u201d the user wrote. \u201cThey silence the staff because of the hell they go through,\u201d they replied. Despite the non-disclosure agreements, staff members have continued to post their claims publicly on the platform, as more poured in to provide their own experiences. \u201cI have nothing to lose, so if you\u2019re going to sue me for complaining, I\u2019ll take it!\u201d one said. \u201cIt\u2019s so obvious that video artists are treated like slaves that no one even questions it,\u201d they posted in another tweet. \u201cWhere I am now, it\u2019s basically a mess and I\u2019m no good, so people who want to do their best shouldn\u2019t get involved,\u201d another explained. \u201cInstead of making people write a pledge to avoid complaints, could you please create an environment where they won\u2019t complain?\u201d they further claimed. \u201cReally terrible situation right now\u2026I wish schedules could be more feasible human for the staff,\u201d another said. At the time of writing, MAPPA has yet to provide an update or make an official statement regarding the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jujutsu Kaisen animators slam MAPPA for poor working conditions CrunchyrollA number of Jujutsu Kaisen animators have spoken out against animation studio MAPPA for the \u201chell\u201d like working conditions, as staff were made to sign NDAs. MAPPA has become one of the biggest names in the anime world, despite only being founded in 2011. Over the [&hellip;]<\/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-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","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=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}