CATDOLL: Chinese investment funds were misappropriated, grassroots staff had no choice but to auction confidential animation materials to make a living

Last year, Yuri on Ice became the most popular animation in 2016 with 50,000 BDs sold! However, even with such a great success, some outrageous things still happened. Recently, a user auctioned the internal confidential setting materials of Yuri on Ice production company MAPPA on Yahoo Daily Auctions, and there were more than 90 copies. This auction caused dissatisfaction among some fans, and some even reported it to the official.

Currently this auction has been cancelled, but in the producer's cancellation message the producer stated that the source of the auction materials was an animation producer he knew. Because the company's president misappropriated the production funds from a Chinese company, and the grassroots producers had not received the wages they deserved, they found him to auction these setting materials that were supposed to be confidential online.

In addition to Yahoo Daily Auctions, similar auctions of internal confidential information of "Yuri on Ice" can also be seen on other auction websites in Japan.