Article Claims Japanese Animators Prefer Chinese Emplyoment

[Dynasty11]

So I had no idea where to put this, but since this is about animators. I saw on the news that China is offering Japanese animators that animate anime, triple the amount compared to what Japan offers them. This was from Anime Senpai on Facebook. But the full article is president.jp So from what I read, it sounds like anime will mostly be made in China now, and the voice acting will be mostly from China. I know Genshin Impact is becoming popular since that game was made in China. Question is, end of anime being voiced from Japan?

Due To Better Wages, Japanese Animators Now Prefer To Work For China

Japanese animators are now preferring to work for Chinese animation industry because of better work environment and better pay.

animesenpai.net

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[Grönsak]

Considering how hard china is cracking down on fan service. This is extremely worrying.

CEO of Colored Pencil Animation Japan, Fumijiro Eguchi, said:” Our priority is to improve the working conditions of animators, with the aim that they do not think to work for Japan and retain their talents.”

In other words they want to steal Japans talented animators.

 

[Cayhr]

As much as we hate West Taiwan, we have to give them credit. Exploit their massive population to centralize massive industries, congregate wealth, and then use that wealth to completely own an industry by out-competing the industry in home countries. How ironic, the communist dictatorship intelligently uses capitalism to accumulate wealth and own industries and cultures.

From what I know, Japan has an issue with its work environment. It's not rewarding enough for the amount of hours people are "obligated" to put in (detrimental to young people's mental and physical health, so I've heard), so I'm not surprised they would be more incentivized to work with West Taiwan. If what this article says is true (and with what I know about the current state of the industry and world affairs, it very likely is true), this is a very, very bad prospect for the entertainment we know and love. Unless Japan rebuttals by somehow making a change, it's very possible all Japanese entertainment will end up becoming West Taiwanese; all franchises owned in-house but the workforce outsourced and imported.

On a side note, West Taiwan has been intellectually draining other countries for a very long time. In the US, the social narrative that the "white male" is evil, is really just an excuse to make them incredibly more likely to accept a job offer in West Taiwan where the pay is better, and, probably, the life is better (regardless of how many layers of lies are established to make it so). Same will happen to Japanese men and women in the animation industry.

 

[Narbray]

Some days ago I had read about this in an article in Spanish, it is worrying but I don't think it will be entirely like that.
It is not uncommon for China to do these things, and I am sure that much of it is true and that for obvious reasons many young animators accept job offers in China, but here the question is, will it be true that they will have a better working life working in China? [regardless of whether they are paid more or not], and secondly, will talented people agree to go to work in a country where freedom of expression and especially artistic freedom is greatly limited? I think these people could take a job in China but they probably won't be able to do what they want there, so they won't stay forever [even though it's just my guesswork, certainly having a stable, good-paying job is very tempting, but we all know that many members of the industry accept long hours and bad pay for the simple fact that they like what they do]
The other point would be that Japanese studios and prodoctures begin to feel the pressure and put their workers on fixed-salary contracts, studios like Toei Animation already do these practices [that's why Toei always works with the same directors and animators] and it would not be strange that the rest of studies begin to do it as well.

 

[PhantomXero1x]

Basically West Taiwan is doing what they do best and thats counterfeiting anything they see thats popular.

 

[hzp]

This is extremely good news!
Japanese anime industry will finally have to deal with competition, and not just for its marketshare.
JP animators will get better salary and/or working conditions.

 

[namedoesntfi]

From what I know, Japan has an issue with its work environment. It's not rewarding enough for the amount of hours people are "obligated" to put in (detrimental to young people's mental and physical health, so I've heard), so I'm not surprised they would be more incentivized to work with West Taiwan. If what this article says is true (and with what I know about the current state of the industry and world affairs, it very likely is true), this is a very, very bad prospect for the entertainment we know and love. Unless Japan rebuttals by somehow making a change, it's very possible all Japanese entertainment will end up becoming West Taiwanese; all franchises owned in-house but the workforce outsourced and imported.

This is one of those situations that it looks really bad, but has potential for good. This could push the Japanese entertainment to improve the work environment especially for animators which have it pretty rough. I have my doubts if they are able, because as we have seen in other instances Japan can be quite stubborn to changing their ways (which again can be both a good and a bad thing).

 

[Narbray]

But this is something that can be done, some studies like Toei Aniamtion [as I saw in a video] hire their workers with fixed salaries, which makes them earn fixed money regardless of how much they work + a salary for their work earning a lot more than the average industry worker ... although I have no source to back this up.
I understand that some studies do it as well as Kyoto animation
I think it makes a lot of sense, that would explain why some animators and people in the industry tend to work almost exclusively with the same studio every time [as is the case with Kyouto who always uses the same staff in all their productions] while other studios hire staff. that are commonly seen in productions of other studios [this is the most common]
I think that it can be possible, I think that other studios with these characteristics but I can't verify if they do this or not [since I only rely on the fact that they usually always work with the same staff] are studios like shaft, ufotable, JC staff