<story><title>33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190718/p2a/00m/0na/002000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrpara</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s still true. Japanese animators are paid by the pennies and work ridiculous hours. Since they&amp;#x27;re often paid on a per-frame basis rather than hourly pay, sometimes it adds up to less than minimum hourly wage. KyoAni was actually one of the few who were known to pay reasonably well, and they also had sort of dormitories slash training facilities for their animators. As for computers, generally speaking the frames are still drawn on paper and scanned, and then colored digitally.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>My favourite Anime of All time, Full Metal Panic were produced by Kyoto Animation. If you are are into Robot &amp;#x2F; Tech Anime it is well worth a watch, I simply felt in love with Chidori Kaname, female protagonist of the series, partly because the male protagonist is a ( Real ) nerd, and it is what some of the nerds first girl friend would act in real world. Its Companion Series Full Metal Panic Fumoffu is also hilarious.&lt;p&gt;Kyoto is one of the best Animation Studio not only in Japan but in the world, I remember they have a &amp;quot;Making of&amp;quot; section in the DVDs and show how much details they put into each drawing, taking thousands of Photos in Hong Kong and redraw them in the Story. So those places aren&amp;#x27;t made up and for anyone living in Hong Kong it would have been instantly recognisable, even accurate to the sign of a poster and banner of shops. And it isn&amp;#x27;t just the quality of those drawing, there are Studio which could do decent Animation but completely lack the skill in Story telling, Character Build up and Tempo etc. Kyoto not only has it all, but they have also been doing it consistently for the past 20 years if not more.&lt;p&gt;Those 20+ must have been some of the best in the industry.&lt;p&gt;I pray and hope there will be no more casualties from this incident. And those that passed away, RIP.&lt;p&gt;I read the Japanese Animation are still very much labour intensive, and not a lot of computer graphics involved, I am not sure if that is still true. ( And if it is, why are there little to no innovation to improve its efficiency ) And Animation, Manga industry tends to have long working hours even by Japanese Standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moogly</author><text>Indeed. And Kyoto Animation (a.k.a. KyoAni) is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, studios in terms of working conditions and pay, long-term hiring with training on the job, etc. It is usually held up as a model of what the anime industry could be, and not what it tends to be.</text></comment>
<story><title>33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190718/p2a/00m/0na/002000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrpara</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s still true. Japanese animators are paid by the pennies and work ridiculous hours. Since they&amp;#x27;re often paid on a per-frame basis rather than hourly pay, sometimes it adds up to less than minimum hourly wage. KyoAni was actually one of the few who were known to pay reasonably well, and they also had sort of dormitories slash training facilities for their animators. As for computers, generally speaking the frames are still drawn on paper and scanned, and then colored digitally.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>My favourite Anime of All time, Full Metal Panic were produced by Kyoto Animation. If you are are into Robot &amp;#x2F; Tech Anime it is well worth a watch, I simply felt in love with Chidori Kaname, female protagonist of the series, partly because the male protagonist is a ( Real ) nerd, and it is what some of the nerds first girl friend would act in real world. Its Companion Series Full Metal Panic Fumoffu is also hilarious.&lt;p&gt;Kyoto is one of the best Animation Studio not only in Japan but in the world, I remember they have a &amp;quot;Making of&amp;quot; section in the DVDs and show how much details they put into each drawing, taking thousands of Photos in Hong Kong and redraw them in the Story. So those places aren&amp;#x27;t made up and for anyone living in Hong Kong it would have been instantly recognisable, even accurate to the sign of a poster and banner of shops. And it isn&amp;#x27;t just the quality of those drawing, there are Studio which could do decent Animation but completely lack the skill in Story telling, Character Build up and Tempo etc. Kyoto not only has it all, but they have also been doing it consistently for the past 20 years if not more.&lt;p&gt;Those 20+ must have been some of the best in the industry.&lt;p&gt;I pray and hope there will be no more casualties from this incident. And those that passed away, RIP.&lt;p&gt;I read the Japanese Animation are still very much labour intensive, and not a lot of computer graphics involved, I am not sure if that is still true. ( And if it is, why are there little to no innovation to improve its efficiency ) And Animation, Manga industry tends to have long working hours even by Japanese Standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mengkudulangsat</author><text>Why though?!&lt;p&gt;It frustrates me that the industry have to rely on fans &amp;#x2F; foreign distributors &amp;#x2F; bootleg to get an audience out of Japan. Leaves so much money on the table.&lt;p&gt;I would be more than happy to pay Eiichiro Oda and his team for an english .pdf of the latest One Piece delivered to my inbox the second it comes out.</text></comment>