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L'Imperatore
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I know that an animator's workload could be... how to describe it... hell. Madness. You name it. But 600 hours (25 days ) a month is just... Lord, this is beyond terrible.
RIP, and my heart goes with his family. |
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blaizevincent
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600 hours a month is mad!
600 divided by 30 days = 20 hours a day! |
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誤称
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Is this supposed to be comedic? Neither of those were in any way popular. |
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lijachan
Posts: 99 Location: France |
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The Big Windup! was popular, of course, perhaps not as much as Black Butler, but it was still popular. (To women, who make up pretty much almost majority of the watchers of anime nowadays)
On the topic, damn...20 hours a day?! You're pretty much killing them already with that much workload. |
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GATSU
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The worst part isn't just that they work so hard, but that they get screwed out of the bulk of royalties for each hit property.
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Gasero
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KH91
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Damn, I already knew how bad the working hours can be in Japan, but having to hear about it again, I'm still surprised. Also, if I recall Oda(One Piece) gets about 2 hours of sleep every night for who knows how long(I assume since the early years of OP).
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Vent
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Welcome to the exciting bullshit world of Japanese business, where living at your office or only sleeping three hours a day are both equally likely and not mutually exclusive! |
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Lusbox
Posts: 156 Location: UK |
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So sad, I'd happily wait a few extra months for new releases if it meant they were actually working in healthy and enjoyable environments.
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mgosdin
Posts: 1302 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA |
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I'm reminded of the story my father ( WWII Vet, Philippines ) told about being in charge of Japanese POW's. If they were working on a job, clean-up or construction, he had to watch them closely as they would sometimes keep working in humidity & heat when they should have stopped and taken a break. They lost a number of men to the heat and my dad was always angry over that.
I know Americans can and will work themselves to death, it truly appears that the Japanese are even more prone to that. Prayers for the man's family and friends. Mark Gosdin |
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L'Imperatore
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For the animators' sake, I don't mind either. However, I'm afraid such idea would be met with fierce resistance from quite a number of people, both inside and outside of Japan... their comfort zone being breached. |
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RokugoPeachMoon
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Yeah, let's not make sweeping generalizations about the industry and business of an entire country. Thanks. |
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mdo7
Posts: 6361 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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After reading this, I feel sorry for all the hard overworked people in Japan.
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maximilianjenus
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they might not be popular but those are the ones the dead guy worked on, not the most popular shows of the studio.
a lot of people who have gone to japan complain about that. |
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Banjo
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that person should have looked for another job instead of this madness, sad story. Lets hope such thing never happens again for anyone~
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