10mo ago

Japan's Massive Number of Anime at Risk if Failing Currency Problems Continue

Numerous red flags over the future of anime are raised by long-time industry professionals following the Japanese yen's continued fall.

Paraphrasing: "The JPY is too cheap for Japanese studios to continue outsourcing to Korean and Chinese studios"

Huh? Where's Holo when you need her?

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Maybe they can pull a fucking Gintama action and just show the story board and have the characters tell the viewers that the animators didn't make the deadline :)
- Or just show the VAs speaking while waving paper cutout characters.
  Also, I could totally see an episode of Blue Lock presented in powerpoint.
- They can probably afford to make at least one episode of the official anime look like a Soviet era bootleg

Re:Zero isn't going to be remotely wrapped up by the time the Japanese economy collapses, is it 😭
- That's right about the time No Game No Life S2 is scheduled for production

They could invest in their own domestic animators instead of paying them scraps while demanding a lot. Maybe they'd stick around then and you won't need to outsource anymore.
I think this is largely of problem of their own making

I recently watched Back Street Girls: Gokudols, which has a very low frame and animation count. It still worked well as a comedy. It was enough.
Not that I want anime to be that way, but it can work for some.
- Every season, there are some shows that have bottom-of-the-barrel art quality and framerates.
  But when I say that, the quality at the lower end of production is about comparable to the old school broadcast TV shows, just not up to today's high standards.

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