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Sugawara tears into the production committee system, which as of late he& #39;s identified as a major issue for anime. We& #39;re supposed to believe that *multiple* mid to large companies investing in a new title take a risk, while vulnerable workers who aren& #39;t fairly compensated are not
(Mid to large companies such as, I don& #39;t know, the distributor that hours after the KyoAni arson issued a statement saying they wouldn& #39;t delay any of their titles, then got rid of that and pretended they never did. They& #39;re not your friends, they& #39;re not anyone& #39;s friends)
Akutsu& #39;s talk about his early days as an inbetweener are interesting as well. I think strict performance-based compensation systems are fundamentally anti-art, but philosophical debates aside, their implementation is a goddamn scam. Actually rigged
Newcomers are still not efficient, and this tips the scale against them even more. The amount of time they& #39;ve got to dedicate can make them equivalent to full-time employees... except with none of the benefits, or even a salary for that matter
Sugawara, who& #39;s been fighting for this cause for years, wraps it up by pointing out perhaps the trickiest issue: lack of solidarity, industry people who think everyone should suffer the same way they did, and those who benefit from the status quo quietly fighting against change