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The Anime Industry Wage Crisis and the $50,000 Solution

Animator Dormitory Channel

Jan 20, 2024 • Subscribe

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Anime History: Wage Wars and Ghibli's Legacy

【Our crowdfunding campaign is live on Kickstarter!】 https://t.co/Cy1E3Hc3az This crowdfunding campaign is All or Nothing. If we don't reach our target amount, we don't get a cent. The campaign ends at 12:45…

Animator Dormitory Channel

Feb 28, 2024 • Subscribe

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Supporting the Anime Industry

Back in my Wonder Egg review I wondered how I could directly support animators working in an exploitative industry, and I was feeling despairing of things changing… And…

The Review Heap

Sep 22, 2021 • Subscribe

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50,000 views Update | Milestones

For this update let’s talk about all the various problems that I have faced on here over the years, and how I have fixed them or am yet…

Blubbyweb

Oct 14, 2020 • Subscribe

Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai! – 07 – The Cause and the Solution

“Please be with me. I need you.” These are the words that cause Uzaki to rush to Sakurai’s side, only to be disappointed: he couldn’t go into a…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Aug 21, 2020 • Subscribe

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!

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Fractale vs the Anime Industry

►DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! --- Working on my Endless Eight video reminded me of a lot of the weirdness surrounding Yamakan/Fractale, so I figured something like this would be fun…

Red Bard

Nov 18, 2022 • Subscribe

Fractale

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Winter 2021 Anime Overview And The State Of The Anime Industry

Enjoy this deep dive into the unusual Winter 2021 anime season: let’s talk about its extraordinary concentration of brilliant creators and robust teams capable of supporting their ideas,…

Sakuga Blog

Jan 24, 2021 • Subscribe

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, The Promised Neverland, VLAD LOVE, WONDER EGG PRIORITY, Horimiya

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Spring 2021 Anime Overview And The State Of The Anime Industry

It’s time to go over the many interesting offerings in the Spring 2021 anime season to talk about their creative teams, the themes they’re touching on, and their…

Sakuga Blog

Apr 28, 2021 • Subscribe

86 EIGHTY-SIX, Backflip!!, Pretty Boy Detective Club, Godzilla Singular Point, Megalobox

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Anime Industry Overview

  So here’s the result of what I’ve been working on for quite a while now, with a long break inbetween, though. A recent tweet by washi gave…

Ani no Miyako

Oct 9, 2011 • Subscribe

Sakura Trick 02 and the Anime Industry in General

Lo and Behold … Sakura Trick is about cute girls kissing, kissing and kissing. Judging by the various reactions in the anime community it seems that nowadays cute…

anislice anime blog

Jan 18, 2014 • Subscribe

Sakura Trick

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Shoujo Manga and the Fashion Industry

Dressing like a 'Shoujo Girl' was the next big fashion trend on Tik Tok a few months ago, but how closely were the outfits even to a real…

Colleen's Manga Recs

Apr 12, 2025 • Subscribe

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Thank you for 50,000 Views!

Thank you for reading my blog! 

Fortress William

Aug 11, 2022 • Subscribe

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Anime: The Broken Industry | The Canipa Effect

Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/CANIPA - enter promo code CANIPA for 83% off and 4 extra months for free! Canipa returns to the video, "Anime: The Global Medium" from…

The Canipa Effect

Dec 4, 2021 • Subscribe

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Problems with anime industry

Note: This was originally included in my Nana review. But I noticed that it got really long and deep, so I’ve decided to make it a separate entity.

SP

Sep 17, 2021 • Subscribe

Climate crisis into the Mainstream and Engages

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form

The Shinigami List

Apr 7, 2022 • Subscribe

The Anime AI Dub Crisis Has Begun

Use Code BP10TH for $50 off your Figurama Collectors 10th anniversary statue https://figurama-collectors.com/pages/anniversary SUBSCRIBE here ▶▶ http://bit.ly/BonsaiPop Use code BPOP for Gamersupps here ▶▶ https://gamersupps.gg/BPOP Like this video? Support…

Bonsai Pop

Dec 6, 2025 • Subscribe

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Anime Like Too Cute Crisis

Liza Luna is part of a destructive race of aliens, and when seeing Earth, she determines it should be destroyed. However, upon further inspection, Liza

Recommend Me Anime

May 19, 2023 • Subscribe

Cat Planet Cuties, My Roommate is a Cat, Nyanko Days, Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga, The Little Lies We All Tell

The Worst Anime Ever Made (and the Broken Industry That Birthed It)

Thanks Fabletics for sponsoring this video! Tap in to get 80% off sitewide when singing up as a VIP: http://fabletics.com/BonsaiPop12] #fableticspartner @fabletics Skelter Heaven is more than just bad, it's…

Bonsai Pop

Jun 14, 2025 • Subscribe

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Two words to understand the anime industry

Plus: 'Suzume' ends box office run in Japan; Kodansha responds to K MANGA criticism; Why webtoons are produced by studios rather than individuals; and more

Animenomics

May 31, 2023 • Subscribe

Suzume

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Inside the Anime Industry - Corrupt Working Conditions

This amazing video explains the anime industry's structural issues regarding corrupt working conditions and animators' low wages. It does have some issues, however, such as proposing cost-saving measures as…

Animator Dormitory Channel

Dec 17, 2022 • Subscribe

Two Sides of the Anime Industry in Girlish Number and Shirobako

Breaking into the adult labor force is hard. Doing so within the anime industry is darn brutal. Here we’ll discuss the different ways in P. A Works’ Shirobako…

World of the Outback

Jan 30, 2017 • Subscribe

Girlish Number

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The Influence Of Anime On The Film Industry

Anime has inspired so many different types of media movies, tv shows like stranger things, cartoons like avatar the last air bender, music like Kanye west’s stronger…

Internet Pitstop

Jun 2, 2022 • Subscribe

Idea, Naruto, Paprika, Perfect Blue, Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac

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D&A Anime Blog: 50,000 All-Time Views Celebration Post!

How about that? We’ve achieved another milestone on our nerdy adventure of becoming one of the best anime blogs out there! Honestly we couldn’t have reached this milestone…

D&A Anime Blog

Jul 19, 2022 • Subscribe

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Veteran Animator Terumi Nishii on the Problems and Future Facing the Anime Industry

"...Full-time employees have been forced to work hard for the past 20 or 30 years—but it seems that instead of becoming 'full-time employees,' it's more like they are…

Anime News Network - Views

Feb 19, 2024 • Subscribe

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Karoshi of Love: Wage Exploitation and “Women’s Work” in Japan

A recent case of bakers working karoshi (death by overwork) hours leads our author to see ties between labor exploitation and "woman's work".

Unseen Japan

Nov 18, 2021 • Subscribe

The Anime Dispatch: Fans, Creators and Industry Heavyweights are Desperate for Validation

Fandoms love mainstream validation, but it comes at a huge cost and a big risk of enshittification.

The Accidental Otaku - The Official JMaz Anime Substack

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Heavy

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Natsuki Crisis

Do you want to see girls of the old school kicking ass? Then yeah, you have got to check out Natsuki Crisis. In a time when guys thing…

Chua Tek Ming~*Anime Power*~ !LiVe FoR AnImE, aNiMe FoR LiFe!

Jun 7, 2024 • Subscribe

Natsuki Crisis

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Kawaisugi Crisis

Many years ago, we had a certain squid girl trying to come to land and get revenge on those damn humans for trying to pollute the sea. Safe…

Chua Tek Ming~*Anime Power*~ !LiVe FoR AnImE, aNiMe FoR LiFe!

Sep 22, 2023 • Subscribe

TOO CUTE CRISIS

Dragon Crisis!

Title: Dragon Crisis!Genre: Action, Fantasy, RomanceRating: 4.0/10 Summary: A normal high school boy Kisaragi Ryuji’s peaceful life is turned into an adventure by the return of his second cousin Eriko. Ryuji and…

Anime Anthology

Nov 8, 2021 • Subscribe

Dragon Crisis

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Bubblegum Crisis Perfect Collection Anime Review

It's always the right time to discover, or rediscover Bubblegum Crisis, and this Perfect Collection from AnimEigo provides the ideal way to do so.

Anime News Network - Views

Mar 20, 2025 • Subscribe

Bubblegum Crisis

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Sony builds an empire in the anime industry

Plus: Studio Ghibli's surprising (lack of) marketing for Miyazaki film; Anime theme song tops Billboard global music chart; New technologies in digital manga; and more

Animenomics

Jun 7, 2023 • Subscribe

This Week in Anime - The Failings of Industry

Sylvia and Coop break down recent unfortunate developments in the manga industry.

Anime News Network - Views

13 days ago • Subscribe

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How the Nana anime changed the fashion industry forever

Nana by Ai Yazawa is an anime that changed the fashion industry forever. Youtubers I mentioned in this video: shorturl.at/isT37 shorturl.at/cEN47 shorturl.at/bWY26 ⛔️WICHTIG/IMPORTANT⛔️ 📌I have no rights on the anime images! 📌I…

Anime Blues

Jan 5, 2023 • Subscribe

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The start of the anime industry – Toei Douga & Hakujaden

Anime historians loathe to settle on one ‘first anime’, going to great lengths to traverse back to the most ancient relics of Japanese animation. But I’m going to have…

Washi's Blog

Nov 30, 2018 • Subscribe

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Thank you for 50,000 all-time views!

Just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who reads this blog. I recently got a notification that it has passed 50,000 all-time views. When I first…

Moon's Cocoon

Aug 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Turn A Gundam

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Arum Journal Has Gotten Over 50,000 Views!

Thank you!

Arum Journal

Nov 13, 2024 • Subscribe

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Night on the Galactic Railroad – Existential Crisis’ and Imagery

Night on the Galactic Railroad is an anime fan that I wanted to watch for the longest time, but constantly pushed it back on my watch schedule because…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Jun 29, 2022 • Subscribe

Night on the Galactic Railroad

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A Founder’s Thought’s with D.J. Lewis: Miyazaki, and the State of the Anime Industry!

If you haven’t noticed by now, I am an anime fan. Throughout this journey I’ve had my fair share of online debates, silly squabbles, waifu wars, and toxic…

D&A Anime Blog

Sep 11, 2022 • Subscribe

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Interview: Veteran Animator Terumi Nishii on the Problems and Future Facing the Anime Industry

I got to sit down and talk with veteran animator Terumi Nishii. Check out the full interview over at Anime News Network!

Biggest In Japan

Feb 21, 2024 • Subscribe

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Dear Anime Industry: No AI “Art”

What a time to be alive. Barely a year ago, advanced generative AI was the stuff of science fiction. But now, you can ask Bing to look up…

Drifting Soul

Mar 9, 2023 • Subscribe

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Anime industry tackles inflation with raises

Plus: Saudi Arabia's journey into anime production; A thriving anime Blu-ray and DVD market in the U.S.; Japan's rural animation studios; and more

Animenomics

Apr 19, 2023 • Subscribe

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Anime NYC 2024: Industry Panels Overview

From Dark Horse to Seven Seas, a number of publishers had their industry panels at Anime NYC, and here's thoughts about most of them!

TheOASG

Sep 12, 2024 • Subscribe

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Anime NYC 2022: Industry Panels Overview

With Anime NYC being a known convention for local publishers (Kodansha, Yen Press) and those outside of New York (Crunchyroll, J-Novel Club), this is the major place to…

TheOASG

Dec 1, 2022 • Subscribe

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Anime NYC 2023: Industry Panels Overview

From Crunchyroll to Star Fruit Books, here's some thoughts on who did well and who did not in the Anime Industry 2023 roundup.

TheOASG

Dec 19, 2023 • Subscribe

The Status of this Blog and the Anime Archivist, plus the Survival of the English Language Anime Industry

You may have noticed not much has been going on here before Christmas. To be blunt, nothing good has happened since that time. To be honest I had…

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

Apr 2, 2020 • Subscribe

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The Difficulty of Animation and Being Mindful of the Industry

Have you thought about how the anime you watch works? Animation results from the stickiness of our minds and vision. We take this stickiness for granted, but without…

Japan Powered

Apr 2, 2023 • Subscribe

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Mental Health Crisis Resources and Advocacy Groups

In lieu of posting today’s feature, we wanted to offer a post with resources for those looking for mental health/crisis help or for causes currently seeking donations.

Anime Feminist

Nov 6, 2024 • Subscribe

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Evangelion, alienation, and Japan’s 1990s economic crisis

In a time wracked by despair, paranoia, and economic devastation, Evangelion captured the nihilistic zeitgeist of a nation and its citizenry.

Anime Feminist

May 15, 2024 • Subscribe

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Japan’s Sex Industry and the Problem of Sex Slavery

Japan’s sex industry exists because of the narrow definition of prostitution found in the 1956 law that ended licensed prostitution in Japan. Namely, the law defines sex as…

Japan Powered

Dec 20, 2020 • Subscribe

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This Anime Gave me an Existential Crisis

Frieren was originally a manga by Kanehito Yamada about a elf who has lived for hundreds of years. The anime adaptation of frieren follows the same story,…

Hiding in Public

Dec 13, 2023 • Subscribe

Wage Slave Wants Ghost Girl #01 — Leave

  I mean, if you insist. Impressions: How hilarious you think the punchline "SO CUTE!" about a teary eyed little girl is will likely determine how much you…

Tenka Seiha

Apr 7, 2022 • Subscribe