While the industry as a whole makes a lot, the majority of individual anime and manga make next to nothing. It’s a few very popular properties that make all the dough.
If people were paid fairly, most productions would be untenable. There would be just a few anime per year instead of many.
But also, how would the popular ones come to be? Every new property would be a huge gamble.
As an anime and manga fan, I actually want that to happen. Pay the animators what they deserve. Give them good working conditions.
People just have to accept that means the industry will shrink dramatically. So many things will just never get made.
That also means far fewer people will get to become animators. They’ll have to find some other job as competition for the jobs that remain will be sky high.
And that competition is what brings down the wages in the first place. There are just so many people that want those jobs.
If people were paid fairly, most productions would be untenable. There would be just a few anime per year instead of many.
But also, how would the popular ones come to be? Every new property would be a huge gamble.
As an anime and manga fan, I actually want that to happen. Pay the animators what they deserve. Give them good working conditions.
People just have to accept that means the industry will shrink dramatically. So many things will just never get made.
That also means far fewer people will get to become animators. They’ll have to find some other job as competition for the jobs that remain will be sky high.
And that competition is what brings down the wages in the first place. There are just so many people that want those jobs.