Anime Studio Recruits Slaves by Blood Type
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 12, 2009 11:24 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Business, Crime, Production Controversy, Slavery, Superstition
A company recruiting animators has incited a storm of criticism for its refusal to hire people with blood types other than A and O, as well as its requirement that inexperienced employees work as trainees for a year without any pay…
The company’s recruitment request runs thus:
“If you are a high school graduate under the age of 23, and have a blood type of A or O, we have an opportunity for you.”
[The request describes how to send them sample pictures]
“We’d like people who can live a year without pay, and whose families don’t object please!
Please read below and apply!
For those with no experience, the basis of our recruitment is that you will work for a year without any remuneration, as training.
As you need experience to work in the industry and we can’t use you as a pro from the start (though even if you are useless and work a year, you are still useless), and instructing you takes up employee time, to say nothing of the cost of attending an anime course and the value of actual experience over simple study, we think this is a great deal.”
[The rest of the very long and uninteresting document is redacted]
Whilst it is true that animators are virtual slaves already, possibly this is taking things too far.
Many within and without the industry have worried that working conditions and pathetically low salaries threaten to drain the field of new talent, and certainly this seems a relevant observation in this case.
The company in question is “Shindou Productions,” run by Mitsuo Shindou, an animator/director who has worked on a wide variety of titles, including Dragonball, Yu Gi Oh, Chibimaruko, Saint Seiya, Rurouni Kenshin and others; 2ch unkindly remarks that none of his works are known for the quality of their animation, except in the “quality” sense.
2ch is unsurprisingly scathing:
“Can’t they be sued for discrimination or something for using blood type like that?”
“This isn’t a contract, so no. But if it were, they probably could.”
“I’m O! YES!”
“Their DVDs won’t sell with this.”
“With stuff like this the Japanese anime industry will go on shrinking…”
“Tell us why! Why the limit on blood types?”
“Can you change your blood type?”
“Shindo Pro., these guys famous?”
“Mitsu Shindou, famous for quality collapse on a variety of anime, is the CEO.”
“I Googled him, he’s 65. Looks like the kind of old-fashioned thing someone like that might say.”
“Is this so bad? In the west unpaid trainees are the norm. And B types have trouble with detailed work like this, it’s an appropriate choice. I think I’m A.”
“Notice the fact that it is not appropriate to actually believe in blood types affecting personality!”
“Think about it. They don’t want B types because they are bad workers, they don’t want them because they think the others will put up with more abuse and be company slaves!”
With such companies, the Japanese anime industry perhaps deserves its current troubles.
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NEah. Disney does the same with the pay thing for interns. They are also know for making them work on holidays and longer hours than profesional animators. The blood type thing is kinda screwy but from what I understand there is a fallowing of that idea in Japan.
Duh, so Disney´s people are bastards too.
Awesome, I'm A+
...now I just need to actually get good
>> Mitsuo Shindou
mitsuo kubo?
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%B2%E8%97%A4%E6%BA%80%E5%B0%BE [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/進藤満尾]
Working for an year without get pay? What the fuck is that, Japan?
It's only an internship... the blood type thing, indeed, that is odd. but the rest is pretty normal.
Their salary is pathetic, because nowadays the industry doesnt make sufficient amount fo money. And this is no surprise with all the shit they release on screens. The animators are OK, but story writers nowadays is just PATHETIC. Even I can write a story for anime better than 80% of pros working in the industry.
Only in Japan could a form of racial discrimination become a pastime...
Let's forget everything that happened up 'till the abolition of slavery in Europe and America then, your post might be a bit more true this way.
I thought Japanese studied Biology in schools, seems I was wrong. O_o
(1年やってもダメな人はダメですが)
This part is so frank it hurts.
Working full time but in training and being an intern are not the same thing.
now i finally know why some DA artists, pretty low level i must say, claim to have work for japanese animation companies, and now i know why they keep throwing the market to the gound offering
their services for around $10 dlls to nothing, guess
they acquired the habit of working for nothing
"In the west unpaid trainees are the norm."
Um... is this guy completely and totally wrong or did I totally miss something?
Must be wrong. Most everyone I know get paid for on-the-job training. The only exception are people who volunteer to work which is mostly for charities and non-profits.
So... what if they work for a year and then get fired :S
Then they have 1 years experience on their resume and can find a real job.
Then they collect unemployment benefits, based on a percentage of the salary they earned (zero Yen).
Anything times zero is still zero.
gonzo is that you?
oh wait nevermind. sounds like something theyd do though considering how theyre doing.
This is probably one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
Japan, man... Going there would be a trip in more ways than one. O_o
This company must go in the hell .
I'm X blood .
w00t.
i'm O neg.
Off to japan I go!
There is one explanation.
THE BOSS OF THE COMPANY IS EDWARD CULLEN AN HE'S AFTER TASTY BLOOD!
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!11!!!!11111!
Those guys are stupid+retarded to be happy if they are A or O and think to go there to "work". That isn't a work in first place, is a real slave job!
so all the B type become seiyuu?
and bombay blood can go to hell?
lol
it looks like a fucking Fallout series viral to me ... or something xD...
I'm a B type Blood but I'm working without any Arguments and i Work hard like a any other people
i haven't have any other troubles on my workplace
Hmp
Japan animator and seiyuu does not get the credit they deserve and it's all their(company) fault
they want only certain types of blood type because they are BLOOD SUCKING VAMPIRES.
I does sound like some cult is running the real thing here. The work for a year without pay is like finding people who no one knows are alive. Hence, whatever the cult does they vanish no one knows they are gone. Like sacrifices or as noticed above - Vampire blood lettings.
Source on the pic? I like it. :D
Also, on a related note, A Positive. (Of course, I'm also 28 and can't draw worth a damn, lol)
Hey, what's the voice of reason doing near the end of the comments there? Did he get lost on the way to a less unsavory board?
I'd work there for zero money if I could kick the CEO in the balls every day.
LOL count me in
poor animator
What no AB? Does that mean no tsundere animators D:
hmm, I guess they're hiring hikkikomoris and homeless people...or Mexicans.
that comment is so off track i have seen more american artist throw the prices down, supposedly because they want expereince that people in other countries
Dude Mexicans read this page too >.>
wtf has to do your blood type? and 1 year without pay?.. lol they're fucked up
simca can be an animator, yes
she's a blood type O
lol XDD
O SLAVE!
This kind of thing happens everywhere. Just look at the number of ads on Craigslist looking for people to do management, or professional levels of work for free or little money.
This is pretty much a scam, and most people should definitely not consider this an internship (as the ad on this article makes it seem like).
Discrimination by blood type is absurd. Did these people ever study basic biology? Blood type is determined by one gene that codes for a protein that doesnt really do anything except serve as a recognition marker. The possible correlation between one gene that codes for blood cells and work abilities would be extremely tiny on the slim chance that any correlation exists at all.
Next thing you know your gonna need a twitter account to get a job =/
My tweets goes something like this:
"Taking a dump."
"Eating ramen mixed with Metamucil."
"Taking another dump."
"Had miso soup. Had no miso mix, used oatmeal instead."
"Taking another dump."
etc. etc. etc.
i WILL SUED THEM BECAUSE I AM BLOOD TYPE B
well, O type, but work hard whole year widthou payment ... hell
lol I didn't think the Japanese superstition of blood type ran this deep :D Well if your stupid enough to believe in that then go right ahead and most likely watch your company go down the drain.
Can someone explain this barbarian why the Japanese care so-fucking-muhc about blood types?
basically the moon version of zodiacal signs
by the way xD im O positive, also dragon in the Chinese zodiac and Scorpion in the other one xD
is that a FTW?
"You got AIDS and any disease that can be transfered easily?"
"Yes sir..."
"But your blood type is A?"
"Yes.."
"YOU ARE HIRED!"
Im Blood Type: Blue, does that work?
I can kind'a see the whole blood type thing, since the Japanese are big into the concept of blood types playing a role in a person's personality. But the whole no pay for a year seems really inhuman. o__o
I agree with your comment on the no salary for a year.
Even trainees deserve at least minimum wage if not their desired salaries. It's not working when you're not paid anymore.
With the situation nowadays working without pay is just impossible. So what if you're gaining experience. But within a year your experience wouldn't pay for your rent and food for that year.
And..“though even if you are useless and work a year, you are still useless”
This surely guarantees that you won't be hired after a year and all that work is useless.
You got experience sure but you're probably full of debt or going hungry by that time.
To be honest, there is no way in hell's bells can anyone live for a year without some kind of income. Someone has to pay for the rent, food, and utilities. The reference to "objecting families" hints to those living at home (with mommy and daddy.)
Exactly. They are looking for inexperienced students and offering to give them experience. It is the same as at Disney, NBC, etc. (Look up the jobs on their webpages, they all have unpaid intern positions).
lol what is next:
No girls with breasy size xx
max weight = xx
must um married or single
That's in China. :-)
Hmm.. no wonder Rurouni Kenshin used a lot of that lazy "Run-Flash-BattleEnds" animation.. I wonder if Xebec and Gonzo (back when they're working on Black Cat) also practiced the same thing..
Oh well, Thank God i'm O..
their bloodsets :O
Too bad I'm a B and only work for money.
I dont even know my bloodtype. :/
Damn. I'm AB+. I guess I have to settle for a good paying job. Oh well...
you are lucky I got B-type but both my parents are O-type T_T
emmm... something wrong with ur dango
So, either your Dad isn't your Dad--- but whichever male friend of your Mom that is B or AB is, or--- you are adopted.
Welcome to genetics.
Dude.. I think your parents took the wrong baby when they got out of the hospital..
Oh man! SanCom always make me laugh.
Sorry to break the news, but you could be adopted. O blood type is recessive, two O parents can only have an O child. So either you are wrong about someone's blood type or you're adopted...
This is exactly what I thought. Oh, and does anyone know which is the most common blood type in Japan?
I think the transplant is unlikely, as doctors would likely pick family members that are compatible with you. And both parents are O type, not even siblings could explain the situation. He's screwed from all directions.
Either way, as long as tojii is happy, it shouldn't matter.Also, I think the most common blood type is B. B is found more among Asian then it is in Caucasian.
I for one believe the blood type personality thing though. It' matches me and my friends for our blood types just right.
Or someone had a bone marrow transplant.
Wouldn't be great if "IC DeaDPipoL" realy was adopted!? XD And that he lerned about it here!?
err... i think it's time you had that talk with your folks..
funneh
HA!
This made my day.
i can be an animator xD
This is what KyoAni wants you to become.
congrats.
I don't even know my blood type :S
i'm a positive so i wouldn't have problem and i work as a art director for four years at a museum so i should know what people like
It's type B.
I am your father!
so how did you get all these children named Anonymous?
I'm your mother, despite being a guy. And pay no attention to your father, he probably doesnt remember you.
simple, he had babies and named us all anonymous
Otou-san!!!
A great career in medical television for AB types then.
AB is worst because they are, ahem, so difficult to pin down. They supposedly have the qualities of A and B, but in widely varying amounts.
To the meticulous Japanese, being chaotic is worse than being lazy, but predictable. ...And yes, I am AB.
Do not worry AB-typed people, as you are also called the universal receiver and are the ones most likely to survive extreme blood loss.
Why is AB so bad?
I am ab blood typed
I am AB; the 'worst' blood type in the Japanese's eyes.
illegitimate children???
I want go, i want go, my blood type is O
Father?! But I thought you died!
I don't even know my blood type rofl.
So can I!
Just I don't know if I'd want to work a year without any pay. Can't say that sounds appealing.
Your bloodtype is the first instead of the ability to draw? Working for free? The best! That's the reason anime graphics are worse nowadays than in the 80's.