It seems Netflix money has gotten to everyone. Terumi Nishi says the budgets for animations have gotten bigger but that money hasn’t gotten to the animators yet. Keep in mind in this interview Nishi says the budget has grown to 2 or in some cases 3 times.
“According to Nishii, budgets on Netflix anime are roughly “twice” or “three times” the amount of a regular anime. However, animator wages have not raised accordingly. She remarked that the animation production companies “don’t seem to be thrilled,” and that the work is as hard as ever. Although she is not in a position to state definitively where the money is being spent, she said that from what she has heard, the money received by the production companies has tended to go to capital investments. Many companies are in the red, and need the money simply to stay afloat. To use an analogy, she said, “It’s like if it rains in a desert. It gets swallowed by the sand, and it’s not enough to make plants grow.”
Nishii also explained that this is hardly any different from business as normal in Japan. Anime IPs belong to the companies, and animators do not reap their share of the profits. According to her, creators are asked to sign an agreement ceding their creative rights to the work. With games (e.g. mobile games), it’s common for people who worked on the project to sign non-disclosure agreements, making them unable to even say what they worked on.”
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