CATDOLL: "Strike Witches" production company "SILVER LINK" was exposed on Twitter for owing producers' wages

The new animations in October 2016 are full of difficulties. Let’s not talk about the audience’s expectations for the new works, but the problem of delaying the broadcast of several animation works after the launch is already the only thing in the industry. The animation production company of the recently popular "Strike Witches" Season 3, in addition to the delay of the work, also attracted attention for the complaints of a mechanical designer in charge of the series on Twitter.

Hiroyuki Terao, one of the mechanical designers of the "Strike Witches" series of animations, publicly complained on Twitter that Silver Link was picking on and withholding the producers' wages, and warned those who are currently working for Silver Link to be careful. He also added a GIF of the "Strike Witches" animation and explained that he completed this scene by himself from storyboarding to painting.

"I have been thinking about this for almost two years. How did Silverchain fall into depravity? I still haven't seen anyone put forward a similar argument. It's really annoying. Should I talk about this matter from a completely subjective perspective? Although we should look at a matter from many perspectives, what Silverchain did is unreasonable no matter how you think about it. After the first part of the Strike Witches OVA was completed, Silverchain kept finding faults and withheld the producers' wages for various reasons. This is the company Silverchain. Regardless of whether this matter was right or wrong, this matter is the fact that happened in Silverchain. So everyone who is still making animations must be careful, because your hard work and honesty at work may be trampled upon. For disputes surrounding issues such as salary payment, producers should go to certain departments for negotiation, but as for the salary arrears that I experienced, it happened a long time ago, so I don't care about it anymore."

SILVER LINK (株式会社シルバーリンク) is a Japanese animation production company. In most animation works, it is called "SILVER LINK." or "シルバーリンク", which is abbreviated as Silver Link in Chinese. It was established in December 2007. It is the production director of the animation company FRONTLINE. The producer, Yoshito Kaneko, is an independent branch. At the beginning, the operation was mainly based on production cooperation. It cooperated with many well-known production companies. The main partners are roughly SHAFT and JCSTAFF.

In 2009, the company started to produce animations independently. On February 1, 2016, it absorbed its subsidiary BEEP and established the overseas department of SILVER LINK. The well-known animations such as "Baka and Test to Summon the Beasts" (the origin of the FFF group), "A Certain Magical Index II", "Strike the Blood" and "Magical Girl☆Illya" were all produced by them.