The Wall Street Journal today in its print and online editions is talking about the “decline of anime“. Though it calls it a decline, it is more that the Japanese dominated industry is struggling due to increased competition and and low pay and long hours for employees. With anime’s growing popularity in the West, I would have thought the opposite is the case, though I can see that as something becomes popular elsewhere, it begins to be copied, and therefore finds more competitors, something that usually drives down prices and hurts the older companies that are more set in their ways.
I feel sorry for these animators, since they really are not being paid for their skill level. I make more in the West as a teacher, than they do in the entertainment industry. I’m not sure I agree with the level of government explained here, but I do think that these animators should be paid more.
Read more here and in today’s print journal.
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