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INTEREST: Animator Ippei Ichii Says Netflix Anime Produced at MAPPA Paid Bottom Rates (Updated)

Organization is much more difficult when a good portion of the staff are free-lancers.

They produce animation for all the world at this point, look at the the Demon Slayer movie, "Mugen Train", it made more than $100 millions outside Japan. One Piece sells millions of copies every year in France, Italy and probably other european countries (I haven't any data for the US), the problem is not all series are successful like "My Hero Academia" or "One Punch Man" or whatever is successful in your contry nowadays. Also many animated series in Japan are produced only (or mostly) to push manga sales, and usually got only one season (2 if they prove popular like for example "Kobayashi san's dragon maid"), manga that often are not even sold outside Japan (Ushio to Tora and Karakuri Circus for example). In various cases it helps a lot with manga sales, like in "The promised Neverland"'s case, and sometimes people buy also the dvds/blurays if the series is good (although the second season of "The promised neverland" was so bad that the sales of blurays dropped to basically to zero!)