CATDOLL: Foreign websites list "Shocking secrets of Japanese animation" The reality is cruel and ruthless

Although Japan has exported its culture through animation and comics, attracting fans all over the world to fall in love with this country that produces many beautiful works, do you know the real Japanese animation industry? Recently, the Canadian intelligence website "WatchMojo" listed "Five amazing secrets of Japanese animation that you must know", which opened the eyes of anime fans in Europe and the United States.

Compared to the fantasy and beauty in the anime world, these secrets with great realistic irony once exposed have made many otakus and otakus worried about the Japanese animation industry, and they also realized that reality is definitely not as beautiful as anime works...

No. 5: Drawing a cabbage is more important than anything else

The intelligence website "WatchMojo" first talked about the lighthearted part, saying that the thing that must be drawn well in anime is not the character's face, but the cabbage! This is of course the root cause of the animation collapse of "The Glass Color Before the Night" in 2006...

Since the exaggerated cabbage was drawn in "The Glass Color Before the Night Shines", other animation works that appear cabbage will be magnified and examined by netizens, and there is a saying that "animation with good cabbage is a masterpiece". However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that this saying is actually a little bit reasonable - after all, only after drawing the characters and writing the script first, can you have the leisure time to slowly draw cabbage.

Fourth place: Japanese comic exhibitions are large in scale and size

The website compares the "Comic Con" in San Diego, USA with the "Comic Market (Comiket)" in Japan, telling European and American otakus an astonishing fact - "Comiket" is not only huge in scale, but the scale of the doujinshi and COSERs participating in the exhibition is something that other countries can never catch up with.

According to the introduction, at the Comiket in Japan, you can not only see the world's only super-large-scale otaku team, but also see large-scale doujinshi that other countries can't imagine, and appreciate the cool-dressed COSERs...

Third place: Voice acting can be a lifelong career

In most other countries, voice actors may only work part-time or be guest-starred by movie actors and DJs, but only in Japan can voice actors become a large-scale industry. In addition to a large number of animation and game works, TV narration and foreign films also rely on voice actors to dub.

At the same time, voice actors can also participate in stage plays, dramas, singing and other activities. Some voice actors with good singing skills can also debut as singers and eventually become idols. For this reason, many young Japanese people are scrambling to enter voice actor training schools. However, it is not easy to become a well-known voice actor. Not only do you need a unique voice that surpasses ordinary people, but you also need to be lucky enough to be selected for an audition. It can be said that behind every popular voice actor lies countless unknown voice actors...

2. Animators’ salaries are pitifully low

Behind the beautiful Japanese animation works, there is actually a lot of bleakness - long working hours and low wages are almost the norm in this industry, and the treatment of new animators is the worst. Even if you can draw good works, you may not be able to get a satisfactory salary.

According to a survey in Japan, the annual salary of a new animator is only about 1.1 million yen (about 67,000 yuan). Considering the consumption level, it is basically impossible to live a normal life with this salary alone. Although the salary can also increase significantly after being promoted to original artist or animation supervisor, it is still not as good as the average annual salary of practitioners of the same age. Moreover, many people die before they can be promoted. For example, Yuka Sugisaki, the animation supervisor of "Attack on Titan" who was only 26 years old...

Why can such a hard-working industry last so long? Of course, there are many young people with dreams who rush in to try their luck. When they find that the industry they are in is not as ideal as they imagined, some people will choose to leave, but more people will stay for their dreams and be "willing" to be exploited.

First place: Japanese people actually don’t like otaku culture

Having said so much, the website "WatchMojo" finally reminds European and American comic fans of an important point, that is, Japan as a whole actually despises otaku culture, and many media will deliberately force some vicious social cases to be associated with otaku interests, such as "anime-related items were found in the home of criminal A" or "after watching a certain animation, the victim imitated and jumped off the building", etc. Therefore, many Japanese otakus usually hide their interests, and only fully release them in places such as Akihabara or comic exhibitions, forming a strange phenomenon that otaku culture is very prosperous but cannot be loudly supported.

Once one's hobby of staying at home is exposed, it may even lead to family disputes. In addition, social problems such as "hikikomori" are always linked to otaku culture.