CATDOLL: Japanese media: Animation producers have low wages because Osamu Tezuka and Hayao Miyazaki once agreed

Previously, Japanese media exposed that the living conditions of animation producers were very poor, and many animators came out to complain. With various reports emerging one after another, more and more people in Japan are beginning to pay attention to the working conditions of animation producers. There are more and more discussions about problems such as poor working environment and low wages for artists. Recently, a Japanese website analyzed the causes of this problem and gave improvement methods.

The website pointed out that in 1963, the Japanese domestic TV animation "Astro Boy" began to be broadcast. With the broadcast of the animation, this work has achieved high popularity in Japan. However, at that time, due to the idea that "animation = a program for children to watch", the copyright fee for broadcasting was very low. In response to this, Tezuka took the approach of reducing production costs and producing copyrighted peripheral products. Even so, if there is still a deficit, it will be filled with the money earned from comics.

The current character business of "supported by copyright income from popular comics and animated with low production costs" is built by Tezuka. Moreover, Tezuka is the first person in the Japanese comics industry. If he accepts a low salary, other creators will not dare to ask for more. In addition, Tezuka's enthusiasm for making animations with his own investment has also moved many people to follow the production of animations despite low wages. Many people believe that if he had asked for "more money for animation" at the time, there would not be such a bad working environment now. Hayao Miyazaki, a giant in the Japanese animation industry, once said, "Because Osamu Tezuka sold "Astro Boy" at a low price of 500,000 yen per episode at the beginning, the production fee for the animation production was very small later."

Due to the poor animation production environment in Japan, there are fewer and fewer excellent Japanese animation talents. In addition, in order to pursue lower costs, outsourcing to foreign countries is a serious phenomenon, which has also become a possibility of the decline of the Japanese animation industry. In order to ensure the stable development of Japanese animation, it is necessary to use the high technology of Japanese animation as a "commodity" and establish a complete training and protection system for practitioners with the support of the government and the whole society, and ensure that excellent animation talents and technologies will not be easily lost.