The Depressing State Of The Anime Industry 

ye it's rough out here ...

Next we're going to have a Master Chief Animation Director 🗿

Short answer: forced overtime working and instant ramen affordable salary. Basically modern day slavery with extra steps,very good (everyone’s idolized) Japan👍

The harsh and unhealthy hustle culture in Japan (and it's not exclusive to that country) is a big contributor to the state of the anime industry and it suck balls

Great video, most people don't/won't pay attention to the things you mentioned and I'm glad you brought it to their attention. Also I didn't know Yutapon was the reason 2nd KA became a thing😅

Hey, you should consider making a video about the production of One Piece because holy hell, even the less important episodes of the series started to look amazing at this point with having an amazing production management. How they can keep this quality despite it being a weekly show?

Honestly after watching mha s7 e2 i noticed some of these issues as well ,it was an action heavy ep and it was great but they were some still frames and some inconsistencies with the art. Of course it was only a few issues, and i can give it a pass but i am worried how it will turn out in later episodes since it is confirmed there will be 21 ep in total.

People don’t want to open up Pandora’s box and I see it now. I get you only wanted to do a 8-10 minute video but this issue can go on for hours upon hours. I see a lot of personal feelings are involved in this industry. I feel imo, some of these “ free lancers “ are cool with the mangaka..so certain shows get that (special treatment). When you do research you have to wonder what these free lancers have in common, (action shonen) right? MHA, JJK, Mob, DS, Dandadan, Heavenly Delusion, CSM, Frieren, OPM, AOT, etc Free lancers can either make or break a show and that’s the truth. The industry constantly keeps promoting Shonen as well and not enough of other genres. I get what you saying but it’s a bigger hole that nobody is talking about or scared to talk about. I’ve been watching anime for years my whole life so it’s sad to see it going downhill like this. I can go on more about the industry issues but that’s 2 much typing but imma say this and exit. I’ve stated that ( free lancers ) can make or break a show. Example: Oblivion Battery(Baseball) Tv series. 2020 Mappa Version 1 2024 Mappa Version 2 There’s your answer as to why Free lancers play a big role in the inconsistency of anime nowadays. Watch those 2 versions and you’ll see what I’m talking about. End of the day, Industry is rigged and I guess it’s not about money because if that’s the case… high selling mangas should be getting top tier adaptations.

2 Minutes into the video , and more people has to talk about these things. I saw many people defending or being against the use of CGI, but not many people question the existence of CGI

I hate when animation is TOO good, or rather TOO over-the-top, to the point where I feel like I'm watching a Michael Bay film and I can't tell what the heck is going on on-screen.

I have shared this video with all my friends. I hope you become popular bro you're so underrated 😅

What's your view on this new Studio Pierrot Movies thingy ???

great video

I'm still confused by the meaning of the word "2nd key animator" According to definition second key animator would be someone who would draw a cleaner version of a rough LO, But in a dong chang video he said 2nd key is when you trace over corrections of directors, What makes it more difficult is animators participating on Twitter occasionally using the word "genga" And "2nd key" for basically the same thing

564 views 168 likes in 33 minutes, fucking love your channel. Great video as always!

I miss anime being Niche😢

Can you do an animation breakdown of delicious in dungeon 0:18

as an artist, its impossible NOT to notice the dip in art quality of so many modern series and surprised you didn't mention *Dekisokonai to Yobareta* i don't know how I'm even still watching it, it looks so horrible, even worse than *The New Gate* does

Incredible video. Can I upload this video on r/anime subreddit? It would be interesting to see people's opinions on this topic. Ppl there are lot more serious and will deep dive into the topic since they have been following the industry for years. Of course if only you give me permission to post it.

Watch Hibike euphonium! Very nice visuals and animation this season

Great Video, i reccomend you check out a series called Fog Hill of Five Elements, one of the best stylized animation pieces of all time in my opinion. it would make a great video looking it through and give more attention to the show as it really is popular but not in the west.

I always appreciate your takes. You give a unique perspective on the industry and cover a lot of things that most people don't. Side note, an older anime I adore that does the opposite direction/composition vs. sakuga formula (aside from a few moments where they pulled out all the stops). Revolutionary Girl Utena's animation is for the most part pretty mediocre, but they make up for it by making almost every shot visually interesting even without a lot of movement. An easy example is from episode 2, with a walking animation between Utena and her friend Wakaba. They could have just done some standard shot above the waist as the images bounce across the screen, but instead they tell a little visual story with the cuts as Wakaba gradually unloads more of her things onto Utena until she's being carried. I love little details like that to make a show more interesting. But I'm also pretty sure they saved most of their animation budget for like 5 or 6 key scenes in the entire 39 episode show. And it was entirely worth it.

considering there’s about 60 new seasonal anime this season, like 20 continuing series from seasons prior, 10 movies and a few one off ONA like Sand Land or T P Bon, it’s not crazy to say that, as you say, there’s just too much currently being produced. and the fact that at least 20 of those new seasonal shows are your typical generic isekai slop, it puts into question WHY the industry is like this currently. and my answer is the industry is currently in this weird little era which is similar to how hollywood was obsessed with super hero’s and especially shared universes over the last decade. whether it made sense or not, every studio had one. and i feel like the same thing is happening in japan. and it’s reaching its breaking point. both for saturation, and quality. i know Isekai and generic fantasy is extremely popular in japan, but surely it must give at one point right?

i will say one thing i am happy and ready to wait a good month or even a year and then they can just release all episodes like Netflix at once and after work putting a release date instead of a deadline with no bs cgi work will be really good

Just a reality of globalizing of work and anime no longer being a niche product which now makes more money outside of Japan than in. So there are incentives to change the way things work in production. Nothing wrong with remote work and not visiting the studio. Training can still be done properly. Proper training is not happening because, like work in all industries, they are looking for people who can match all the job requirements for little pay rather than training people from ground-up. This is a trend everywhere!

Honestly this reminded me why i dropped the new bleach series, a whole lot of nothing was happening outside of plot, things felt stiff and took longer than needed. My favorite shows are thr ones able to convey things through visuals but it seems most of the time they have to make up visual story telling with voice acting ehich in my opinion only gets you so far by itself. Every anime has it down down moments but it seems the newer anime for the most part have them more frequent and/or last longer leaving them more noticable. I could be wrong, im not a seasonal watcher, i only come around for the odd or great shows though films are preforable but that what it seems to me in the few seasonals i have seen

With all this being said, I think anime is better than how it was in the 2000s with so many weekly anime pioneered by studio pierrot. Just endless shows being produced weekly with passable animation, poor schedules, and a few decent cuts of animation every 50 episodes. Let's not forget the filler as well. Say what you want about things now, but the seasonal model most studios have adopted is a lot better for everyone it seems

this is why i’m so happy the one piece team at Toei keeps expanding. one piece looked like shit for like 20 years and then wano came around and suddenly the art style looks incredible and most fights look really good, and many towards the end looked industry defining and genuinely revolutionary. and in between that we got some episodes that have masterful layouts and character acting. now the team is getting bigger, basically every episode in egghead is higher quality than before. not just in terms of sakuga, but lighting and compositing, layouts, storyboarding, and visual creativity in general. and the fact Toei is helping to start the careers of potential all time directors like Megumi Ishitani is just incredible.

0:17 cracked me up

It really bugs me that in entertainment industry it doesn't matter if a company treats it's employees like sweatshop worker the audience will immediately overlook or forget it if the product turns out good

I hope things change eventually. At somepoint even anime fans will begin to notice the drastic decline in quality, as technique gets tossed out the window.

We need X men 97 and castlevania animation breakdown, anime isn't the only good thing that presents high quality stuff🤷‍♂️

There’s nothing wrong with the audio Og u good

The anime industry needs to change.I cant stand this anymore.

3:02 tfw you know half of these guys 🗿

Capitalism is the answer..

Anime is just getting more and more popular that's why 😂😂

At this point, i cant get excited for any other animes anymore.

Every year 99% anime is trash but then we have the 1%😌😌😌

Tldr capitalism sucks and the monetary incentive to produce as much shows as possible leads to poor schedules, which also leads to corners being cut

This kinda reminds me of issues the gaming industry faces, except slightly better. Excessive outsourcing, forcing of trends for mainstream appeal, a problem being solved by throwing people at it, bureaucray to an extent too. Even games like Redfall are caused by a small single-player orientated studio being forced into a live service kind of gaming when they lack the people, experience and talents. The main difference being there's a stronger drive passion and quality in anime where they aren't left to the wolves.

Bleach Tybw cour2 in a nutshell. Just bunch of rookies animators who can only do still frames and oversaturated effects

Immaculate detail is created by a machine, Audience reaction: "Ho hum. I'm not really paying attention. Detail isn't THAT important." Immaculate detail is created by the blood, sweat, and tears of underpaid human beings, Audience reaction: "EVERY LINE! EVERY FRAME! It must be PERFECT, YOU HEAR ME?! OHMIGAH! WHAT IS THA-"

I think the audio is glitch I can't hear anything

I realise manga has very high detail than anime

Good ole capitalism! You can’t always count on it destroying art. Look at the gaming industry. I hate capitalism

Bleach is coming with peak soon🍉🍁

what will it be after 20 more years?

Bro make a video of one piece animation Over the years

there was always production issues since the 90s theres no need to just blame the modern animes also toei is training new animators with akihiro ota

I want less anime with more quality.

Mmmmmmmm yes!

Theres something wrong with the audio

STUDIo trigger

Short answer capitalism

i hate off model drawings in anime and usually nowadays it is in every single season show (mainly cheaply produced isekai shows)

😬

7:20 You're saying this as if no anime from the 90s and 2000s had any of these problems.

0 views in 2 seconds bro fell off

Pretty much every old anime that got a remake or continuation, looked better in the old version. Spice and Wolf, Shaman King, hell, even FMA Brohood was very inconsistent and janky, with terrible cgi.

you

Lets not be too negative now. Hope for the future is better. The way you're painting this whole situation is hilarious. As if the tone of the situation is the same as the fucking holocaust or something. Anime isnt ass nowadays and in every era of anime there have been problems. (also I dont agree with the notion that young blood animators are worse nowadays)

MAPPA sucks!

Ww

Fourth

First

It's unfortunate that things are the way they are. I hope people are at least more appreciative of what we are getting. 🫤