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by 6stringmerc 464 days ago
Please explain how “funding is plentiful” for the industry - as an American Musician and artist, I am truly curious how money is available to creatives in Japan in this sector. Thank you!
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Sakugabooru's blog has much information on the internals of anime production. This article answers some questions about the production committee model: https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2017/05/02/what-is-an-animes-pr...
It's plentiful in PPP terms I suppose. Japanese wages are very low, they wouldn't be able to fund even one of those ugly Netflix adult comedies where it's made in Flash and called Big Balls or something.