Comments on: Japanese Animators Get Slave Wages: $11,000 A Year

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:04:03 +0000

daz youre wrong
there cartoons that are accepted in japan
like dexter laboratory (a japanise translated video i saw) and disney stuff.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:16:26 +0000

That's 100 USD more than my salary, and I'm a programmer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:21:48 +0000

Economics 101: if the wages are low, it's because there are too many animators. The market is trying to tell you to look elsewhere. If that's all you can do, you're stuck. If you have any other skills, move on. As far as buying new cars for CEOs, remember that with super taxes on the rich, the pay scales adjust UPWARDs to make up for it. Be it a CEO or a ball player, if you want a million take home, you may have to be paid two or three million in "salary". Politicians will make hay, but generally speaking every move by governments to "punish" rich just jacks up their pay scales. The market says the pay is only worth 11k a year right now (and maybe forever). You might wish to look elsewhere, or go back to school to learn a better paying trade. The market is screaming this to people, but few listen...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:03:10 +0000

If there is anything positive to say, is that this weeds out all the fakes , wannabes , and mediocres and the people that have a true heart for it go thru despite the storm . I remember when anime fans in America had to higher translators and watch raw anime and stop every 5 min to ask what was said . I give a toast to the animators . Anime means alot good times or bad .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:10:50 +0000

lol, its always people with this level of quality that says 'I'll be famous' when they cant do the work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:07:27 +0000

no matter how much you love to do something, its never worth it to waste your prime years and starve your self. I dont mind getting minimum living wages and live in a 200sqft room but if I cant even afford that, then I rather a high paying job and then do indy animation on projects that I want to work on with much higher quality

which is why more indy stuff is getting the rise

also, one should never support being under paid for something they put all the sweat in when another is just taking all the fruit. Its called 'abuse' and its people like you that makes it harder for the rest of us to have a decent living at art

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:11:09 +0000

get a part time job. I have one and I only work once every 2 weeks and I'm able to buy literally all the anime I want.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:31:46 +0000

Even if an anime company made a lot more money i doubt they will go for the salaries of the animators. They will just invest in more projects and the CEO will buy a new car. Companies will always try to pay as low salary as possible no matter how much money they got.

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:53:58 +0000

I am willing to pay for the animes i like. I don't mind paying the price if the quality of the subbing and the videos are good.

Except for the fact that, hey~ Student does not have lots of money for them. At my side, one dvd set can cost up to 70 bucks and more. >_> How can we even pay that? Know what I mean? Moreover, anime here are like a few years ago thingy? Takes about 4-8 years before it starts appearing....

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:25:20 +0000

Would not matter if everybody did. They are paid a set wage, not a commission based one. Also DVD sales account for crap all of an anime series profit, it comes from channels paying to be allowed to broadcast the show.
Personally I think most of the industry should go and die, only moe crap is pumped out mostly nowadays. Quality has declined as the years have went on Eventually studios will wise up and produce decent content again but alot will die, I say good riddance.

By: kula

kula — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:48:49 +0000

orz
you use the illustration of my friend -口-...........her name is Sayori....

By: another Anon

another Anon — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:35:39 +0000

oh and to me, USA government is a hostile one, just like China. But i do like real socialist countries.

By: another Anon

another Anon — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:33:01 +0000

And slaves aren't free...

I only hate the government. My target is not the American citizens themselves but all corrupted, self serves government.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:45:41 +0000

I suppose you can call this the animation otaku's Plato's Cave?

By: Cheoro

Cheoro — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:49:07 +0000

PLEASE BE BUYING YOUR FAVOURITE ANIMES! T_T

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:31:36 +0000

Don't these guys have a UNION -- or start forming one? That's MANDATORY in cases like this, and requesting not flat wages but _percentages_ of the profits. George Lucas does this with his actors and it worked damn well.

By: kenjiharima

kenjiharima — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:13:56 +0000

These guys gives us our animation...they need more "CREDIT" in the financial way.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:17:21 +0000

Probably got a stock of supplements and anabolic steroids to replenish each time he should be buying anime.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:43:28 +0000

Well, define successful.

The really rich guys are the ones who have long going series running. And those whose works are adapted to anime. So yes, the riches ones would Rumiko (Inuyasha), Kishimoto (Naruto), Kubo Tite (Bleach) etc.. and they are very rich. I remember reading somewhere that Rumiko Takahashi was one of the highest tax payers in Japan!

By: such

such — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:49:06 +0000

how much does a fairly successful manga artsts make?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:37:44 +0000

If i convert 11k buck to our currency....
Thats 900$ a month right? Thats ~175k HUF, with the pre-crisis conv.rates, it'd be ~120-130k... that is just an average monthly salary here. But hey, I'm living in a post-communist country, who is NO1 in failing at economics, our nation debt in GDP% is the highest etc.....

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:24:57 +0000

Good, obviously ^_^'''''

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:24:02 +0000

I could easily live with that kind of money. At least here I could, can't say about Japan. But that's as long as I don't have to provide for a family.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:20:14 +0000

then please tell me what ISN'T shit so that I may correct myself. Especially in the classic sense.

Or at least prove to me why it's shit.