Working conditions in the anime industry keep being discussed.
MAPPA is widely criticized for unreasonable deadlines.
The release date for the second season of Invincible sparked a new wave of discussion.
The state of the anime industry has raised a lot of concerns for the past months. Jujutsu Kaisen animators are having a collective meltdown every time there’s a new episode released. The discussions have become so intense, that the entire anime industry is on the radar now, with hundreds of worried fans, trying to make themselves and the animators heard.
More time equals better quality
The main idea of the entire controversy is that studios and their stuff need more time to produce a well-executed series. Going back to Jujutsu Kaisen, it was recently rumored that the entire ‘0 movie’ took about four months to finish, and this news shocked the fans. Such a horrible and inhumane schedule concerns the viewers immensely, and they are begging the studios to slow down.
Quality should always be number one priority, not quantity. And it feels like such studios as MAPPA do not realize that. The end of 2022 and the entire 2023 has been rough for the studio. It is responsible for most of the big projects for the past year. Chainsaw Man, Vinland Saga, Hell’s Paradise (Jigokuraku), Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin), Jujutsu Kaisen — all are animated by MAPPA. If a studio takes on so many popular projects, it has to provide proper working conditions and reasonable deadlines to its staff. Which, as we see, is not the case, unfortunately.
Waiting is hard, but necessary
So what does it all have to do with Invincible, if it’s not even an anime? Invincible is an adult animated superhero series that was released in the spring of 2021. Two and a half years later fans receive the news: Season 2 will return in early 2024. Viewers are surprised and they don’t understand why it’s taking so long to produce the sequel.
That brings us back to the issue of deadlines. If you want animators to be treated fairly and have decent working conditions, and you want the final product to meet your expectations, you have to let it go, and stop complaining every time a series takes a lot of time to be produced. Waiting is not easy, we get it. Everyone hates it, no doubt. But we have to sacrifice something, and we think it’s much better to wait for a couple of years and get a phenomenal series instead of getting a “mid” one every other week.
Waiting for a series has never killed anyone.
Summary:
Working conditions in the anime industry keep being discussed.
MAPPA is widely criticized for unreasonable deadlines.
The release date for the second season of Invincible sparked a new wave of discussion.
The state of the anime industry has raised a lot of concerns for the past months. Jujutsu Kaisen animators are having a collective meltdown every time there’s a new episode released. The discussions have become so intense, that the entire anime industry is on the radar now, with hundreds of worried fans, trying to make themselves and the animators heard.
More time equals better quality
The main idea of the entire controversy is that studios and their stuff need more time to produce a well-executed series. Going back to Jujutsu Kaisen, it was recently rumored that the entire ‘0 movie’ took about four months to finish, and this news shocked the fans. Such a horrible and inhumane schedule concerns the viewers immensely, and they are begging the studios to slow down.
Quality should always be number one priority, not quantity. And it feels like such studios as MAPPA do not realize that. The end of 2022 and the entire 2023 has been rough for the studio. It is responsible for most of the big projects for the past year. Chainsaw Man, Vinland Saga, Hell’s Paradise (Jigokuraku), Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin), Jujutsu Kaisen — all are animated by MAPPA. If a studio takes on so many popular projects, it has to provide proper working conditions and reasonable deadlines to its staff. Which, as we see, is not the case, unfortunately.
Waiting is hard, but necessary
So what does it all have to do with Invincible, if it’s not even an anime? Invincible is an adult animated superhero series that was released in the spring of 2021. Two and a half years later fans receive the news: Season 2 will return in early 2024. Viewers are surprised and they don’t understand why it’s taking so long to produce the sequel.
That brings us back to the issue of deadlines. If you want animators to be treated fairly and have decent working conditions, and you want the final product to meet your expectations, you have to let it go, and stop complaining every time a series takes a lot of time to be produced. Waiting is not easy, we get it. Everyone hates it, no doubt. But we have to sacrifice something, and we think it’s much better to wait for a couple of years and get a phenomenal series instead of getting a “mid” one every other week.
