#americomi get about a month for a new issues with that full team

[tigirl-and-co]

As somebody who loves anime dearly, this is true to the extreme but it's not just for anime. This happens with manga too.

It's so incredibly distressing knowing that your favourite mangaka are working themselves to death. The two big examples I can think of are Tezuka and Toriyama, both of whom died incredibly young from issues either created by or exacerbated by stress.

Part of the problem is culture. Much like in America, not giving your job your all is seen as disgraceful to you and, for those in the entertainment industry, disrespectful to your fans.

Animators in Japan are often paid by frame, for dollars a frame IF THAT. But the people doing it consider it an honor. And in some ways it is! It's wonderful to touch people's lives and hearts! But it's not worth your personal well-being.

I've heard whispers on the wind that things may be slowly turning around, starting with mangaka having more control over animated adaptations than they used to, and animators getting more attention. But I'm hoping it doesn't stop there. I want the people who make the things I love to live long and prosperous lives, but they cannot do that under the current system.

People talk so much about how cool anime is in comparison to western animation but if you look under the hood a bit you’ll find that it looks so cool and is made in such large volumes because it’s an industry of hundreds of full time animators that are paid so little that they can’t afford to feed themselves