CATDOLL: No salary in the first year of employment? Japanese netizens reveal the recruitment requirements of animation companies

In the eyes of many fans who love animation, it should be a very happy thing to be able to work in animation production! The previous "Shirobako" caused a wave of Japanese people applying for animation production companies. However, the world in the story is beautiful, and the real life is indeed depressing and cruel. During that period, Japanese animation production companies recruited a lot of newcomers, but then a large number of newcomers left because of the cruel reality.

Recently, a Japanese netizen exposed the description of a recruitment brochure of an animation production company; it stated that "those who come from their hometown to make animation and need parents to subsidize their living expenses should be prepared to have no income for one year."

Some netizens expressed their disagreement with such a request, saying that "there are still companies that dare to recruit people so shamelessly"; we only want the profits after the animation is produced to basically make money from its derivative peripherals. Then the animation production company distributes the income according to the contract requirements. Most of the investment found by the animation production department is used in the production of the animation itself, and there is basically not much left to pay employees. In addition, the average salary gap between different positions in animation production is getting bigger and bigger. So if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with the animation production company stating this, it just states the current situation of the industry. It is better than some people entering the company with dreams and then having their dreams shattered by the cruel reality.