[sauntheninja]

The main problem with regards to the anime industry is there is a production committee who own the rights for the ip that will be turned into an anime and usually studios aren't on there so various studios have to bid to get the rights to make the anime and it leads to a race towards the bottom where the lowest bidder wins. One more thing is despite how popular the series becomes if the studio isn't on the production committee they will just get a flat fee for producing the anime and most of the profits will go to the companies on the production companies so for the studios there really isn't much point increasing the salary for the animators