Former MAPPA Animator Describes Working Conditions as Like a 'Factory'

AbelNhom said:
Just to make this clear: only ONE employee have left MAPPA with 80% people are complaining but havent left yet. In the future, we dont know. But for now, only 1 employee left. I saw a lot of people giving news that 80% employees left, so I just want to make this clear.

deg said:


maybe they meant this not so old news?

"80% of animators quit within their first three years of working with a company" and that their average wages are very low https://comicbook.com/anime/news/one-in-every-four-anime-studios-are-bleeding-money/

Just to make this clear: only ONE employee have left MAPPA with 80% people are complaining but havent left yet. In the future, we dont know. But for now, only 1 employee left. I saw a lot of people giving news that 80% employees left, so I just want to make this clear.

Scordolo said:
Mappa animators should seriously consider transferring to Bones.
They aren't gonna last long like Madhouse did and I don't think CSM will be affected because they WANT to animate it.

@AbelNhom yeah but that one employee can ruin the reputation of the entire studio.I heard he doesn't even take part in animating major moments.

AbelNhom said:

Welp since MAPPA are recuiting new members for both CGI & art, its either they want to have more people so works could done easily without any overwork employees or they will make more people become robots.

AbelNhom said:
Despite this is MAPPA’s problem, we all know that every single worker in Japan(not just animator) are working like this. In Japan, working for 12-14 hours a day is a completely normal thing. And do you get paid well, its all up to what you are doing and how much the boss want to paid for you. We all know Japan have a high suicide rate right. This is just one of the reason out of all reasons.
Welp since MAPPA are recuiting new members for both CGI & art, its either they want to have more people so works could done easily without any overwork employees or they will make more people become robots. Lets wish for best things to come.
Just to make this clear: only ONE employee have left MAPPA with 80% people are complaining but havent left yet. In the future, we dont know. But for now, only 1 employee left. I saw a lot of people giving news that 80% employees left, so I just want to make this clear.

light_straight said:
I thought my country's labour laws were shit. But Japanese laws make me respect them more.

I have heard that japanese never complain much about work, especially with their peers. So if they're complaining, it must be really bad.

deg said:
Says bottom rung animators were tasked with correcting drawings instead of doing their own animation

Freelance animator Mushiyo explained why they chose to leave studio MAPPA in a series of tweets on May 14. According to Mushiyo, who worked on the most recent season of Attack on Titan, the studio engaged in unhealthy work conditions during the series' run. (Note: while the tweets were initially public, Mushiyo has since locked their account).

Mushiyo questioned their decision to work for the company, describing their experience of being asked to fix drawings over and over and over again until the sun came up as why they quit. They criticized MAPPA's decision to work on four shows at the same time instead of properly training its team so that such corrections wouldn't be necessary. Mushiyo compared the work environment to a "factory" where bottom rung animators are tasked with correcting issues instead of drawing.

According to Mushiyo, their complaint wasn't unique. "As far as I can tell, about 80% of the employees had similar complaints at the time."

MAPPA took over animating the popular Attack on Titan anime series from Wit Studio starting with the first part of its final season. The series premiered in December 2020 while MAPPA was also working on Jujutsu Kaisen and Gymnastics Samurai. Zombie Land Saga Revenge debuted in April. Mushiyo regularly shared their own artwork while working on the Attack on Titan Final Season on Twitter.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-05-18/former-mappa-animator-describes-working-conditions-as-like-a-factory/.172930

MAPPA is gonna implode like MadHouse did i can smell it if they keep on overworking and overproducing lol

YousefOtakupro said:
But thats the case with all studios the animators work is really really really hard and they don’t get paid a lot normally but if the studio has a lot of time the work becomes a little easier but most studios animate the animes in a long time but sometimes they got limited time like the last 3 seasons of the seven deadly sins and thats also why the animation is bad thats not the fault of the studio its the fault of the manga publisher and tho e only manga publisher that does that is kondansha its just stupid.

deg said:
Says bottom rung animators were tasked with correcting drawings instead of doing their own animation

Freelance animator Mushiyo explained why they chose to leave studio MAPPA in a series of tweets on May 14. According to Mushiyo, who worked on the most recent season of Attack on Titan, the studio engaged in unhealthy work conditions during the series' run. (Note: while the tweets were initially public, Mushiyo has since locked their account).

Mushiyo questioned their decision to work for the company, describing their experience of being asked to fix drawings over and over and over again until the sun came up as why they quit. They criticized MAPPA's decision to work on four shows at the same time instead of properly training its team so that such corrections wouldn't be necessary. Mushiyo compared the work environment to a "factory" where bottom rung animators are tasked with correcting issues instead of drawing.

According to Mushiyo, their complaint wasn't unique. "As far as I can tell, about 80% of the employees had similar complaints at the time."

MAPPA took over animating the popular Attack on Titan anime series from Wit Studio starting with the first part of its final season. The series premiered in December 2020 while MAPPA was also working on Jujutsu Kaisen and Gymnastics Samurai. Zombie Land Saga Revenge debuted in April. Mushiyo regularly shared their own artwork while working on the Attack on Titan Final Season on Twitter.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-05-18/former-mappa-animator-describes-working-conditions-as-like-a-factory/.172930

MAPPA is gonna implode like MadHouse did i can smell it if they keep on overworking and overproducing lol

racers551 said:


Nah. Unfortunately, Mappa has too much money in them to fail. Where Madhouse failed in being bought off, Mappa embraced the horrible situation in the anime industry. This is not even uncommon beyond Mappa. Wit had issues with this too.

deg said:


maybe they meant this not so old news?

"80% of animators quit within their first three years of working with a company" and that their average wages are very low
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/one-in-every-four-anime-studios-are-bleeding-money/
https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/05/19-1/one-in-four-anime-studios-reportedly-losing-money

RebelPandaSFan said:
Idk what to believe,
Another animator quoted him saying he was overreacting