One ep being released every week isn’t good enough need at least 3

Raine0 said:
??? ive never heard of an anime let alone a TV show airing multiple episodes per week. if you want a world where that happens i suggest speaking with Truck-kun

dest-roy96 said:
It is already hard for animators to get episodes finished before the deadline. For example the current delay of the next Zom 100 episode. Two episodes in a week would be impossible. Do you want animators to be worked to death?

dest-roy96 said:
It is already hard for animators to get episodes finished before the deadline. For example the current delay of the next Zom 100 episode. Two episodes in a week would be impossible. Do you want animators to be worked to death?

Raine0 said:
??? ive never heard of an anime let alone a TV show airing multiple episodes per week. if you want a world where that happens i suggest speaking with Truck-kun

dest-roy96 said:
It is already hard for animators to get episodes finished before the deadline. For example the current delay of the next Zom 100 episode. Two episodes in a week would be impossible. Do you want animators to be worked to death?

AnjinM said:
Although your comment is well-meaning (I would binge this series if I could), the way you phrased it does touch on the issues with the anime industry. I follow the My Dress-Up Darling reddit and all too often see entirely serious complaints about how the mangaka should be working harder to get more chapters out because they are tired of waiting. So I understand you meant this as a compliment, I also understand why people would read it as a heartless complaint. Unfortunately the internet strips all nuance.

Neidhardt_ said:
same I can't keep waiting for one every week

wojakmcwagies said:

Maybe you mean it as a compliment, but the way you phrase it kinda triggers a red flag. However let's just face the truth. Even with 1 eps per week, the animation is inconsistent and bad. In eps 4 for example, Rudeus face is... let's just say weird. If you make it 3 eps per week, it'll surely turn into a stickman art. The second issue is that even with 1 eps per week, the staff working on it (all of them, the management team, the animators, the voice actors, the natural-voice makers [I don't know what they're called], etc) are already working so damn hard. It's inhuman to request for more. You probably should watch this video:

https://youtu.be/Tvj-XnVKQI8

The title of the video is: Underpaid and Overworked: Being an Animator in Japan

Whyyouask said:
I agree with your statement but what’s the harm in animating the entire show week by week and then when you’re done release it also don’t disrespect jobless reincarnation animation like that everything about the anime style is refreshing

Zane_0 said:
read the manga period

wojakmcwagies said:

Some animes were created before and then they released it 1 eps per week. However, some anime just don't have that amount of time. Take a look at Violet Evergarden. That anime took 1 year to produce. They're very lucky that they have that amount of time. Some and most animes only have a couple of weeks or months, thus why another reason for why anime is only 1 eps a week. Because in that one week they can only finish 1 episode that they're not able to. It's not the animators fault of course as the animators only do the job. Also I DON'T disrespect Mushoku Tensei. I'm just stating the truth and that truth is for setting up the reason why they shouldn't do more than 1 eps per week, not to disrespect them or anything.

ItsaMeAMario said:
Where's the AI to assist anime artists? Surely you could build a model to provide a frame work for panels between keyframes.

Whyyouask said:
when you say time what are you referring to ? Just the anime creators being too hastily to release they’re anime?

wojakmcwagies said:

To make the explanation simple, I would use 1 anime for example called "My Sister, My Writer". If you ever watched that anime, you'll realize that the animation is fucked up. But there is a reason for this. The animators only got 2 weeks to pre-produce the anime, and of course as anyone would expect, it's not enough and they need to use that "1 eps per week" thing to finish the remaining parts. This is what happens to some anime. They just don't have enough time to pre-produce all of the episodes. The animators just don't have much choice. So pretty much yeah they're too hasty, but not the animators fault.

hollowtips said:
This is so real.
I need the whole season right now.

hollowtips said:
This is so real.
I need the whole season right now.

hollowtips said:
This is so real.
I need the whole season right now.

hollowtips said:
This is so real.
I need the whole season right now.

hollowtips said:
This is so real.
I need the whole season right now.

Theo1899 said:
There's always the netflix model of a lot of episodes but with longer waiting times. Maybe you should call the producers and tell them to partner up.

Whyyouask said:
I honestly can’t tell if you’re being sincere or condensing

Theo1899 said:

A bit of both. I rarely watch stuff weekly so I don't mind the netflix release model but I know most anime fans hate it so it was a chance to also write something mildly controversial for fun.

V1P3R0P said:
Ok, let me breakdown anime production as I understand it, in as simple way as possible.

So there are mainly 3 stages in production.

Pre Production: Planning how many source will be adapted, selecting the staff working on it, scripting and storyboarding episodes etc... Takes atleast around 2-3 months and can be more depending on what the source is.

Production: Where the actual animations happen. The animations are not done by computer softwares (initially), but actually drawn by hand. There are usually 2 types of animators, Key animators and In between animators. So, key animators draw the key frames, while the in betweeners draw the movement frames between the key frames. The frames are usually drawn following the storyboards.

After the frames are ready(which goes through lots of corrections and reworks), next comes the coloring and art settings. Then there is adding special effects which is done by DoP (Director of Photography). if 3D is used in scenes, they also go to other departments that works on the 3D models and stuff, but I'm not really sure about that.
The production in whole can span around 6-12 months minimum (for a 12 episodes season) and can take longer depending on the number of episodes and number of people working on it. I have read somewhere that each episode needs atleast 8 weeks for production.

Post Production: Basically putting together frames into episodes, sound production, music production, voice casting etc...

Now, that we know the basic breakdown of the production, A show does not complete production before the release. Now a days, a show will be in constant production until around last 2 episodes are pending to come out. But this is not a reason for why we get only 1 episode a week. It has to do with Japanese TV schedules. Since they are mainly airing the show in Japanese TV, it only allows around 30 minutes time frame for an episode, but if there is some special episode or in some cases for premiere, they can book additinal time slots for the same day. in a season around 40-50 animes air for 3 months straight and there are other variety shows as well. Hence it is not possible to add a double length time for all the episodes or air multiple episodes a week. The animes which have double length time for all the episodes or have bulk release are mainly on OTT platforms, specifically speaking Netflix. These shows dont air on Japanese TV and are released specifically on these platforms.

This is a long post. So the TL;DR is that an episode a week is because of TV schedule restrictions in Japan and doesn't have much to do with the production.

Whyyouask said:
wow this is so beautifully explained props to this guy and you know what I’m actually surprised whilst I shouldn’t be but now that you mention it Japanese tv does have a lot of weird restrictions the most memorable one being in hentai they aren’t able to display actual private parts and I always found this so bizarre because regardless of whether there’s private parts being show or not anyone with the knowledge of what sex is even kids nowadays can easily grasp a sense on what they’re doing and hearing this just baffles me even more and makes one ponder why the hell is japan so strict to the point where they’re restricting artists and their capacity for creativity now it’s starting to make more and more sense why the birth rate in Japan is becoming lower and lower these are the things that we only on the surface know imagine daily life to life culture of its self no wonder why a lot of animes depict the mc growing up alone secluded because that’s predominantly what they are probably around day to day and that doesn’t sound fun not one bit

V1P3R0P said:

The pornographic censorhip (hentai or JAV) is not a TV restriction, But a Law in Japn and I'm not sure if they openly broadcast porn in Japanese TV.

amitlot10 said:
idk why people took this too seriously, but i feel the same. i can't wait a whole week, i need more episodes NOW!

Whyyouask said:
I honestly can’t tell if you’re being sincere or condensing

Whyyouask said:
stop being sensitive I’m not being inconsiderate of the animators hard work mainly just admiring the anime if you weren’t intelligent enough to pick up on that and don’t get confused the animator studios isn’t mappa they’re not working on more than 6 titles consecutively

Ashen_Compendium said:

maybe say that this is hypothetical. No part of your post makes it out to be a "if the world just made it happen and nothing else changed" of course people will be saying that the animators are hard worked. just put hypothetical in the title if you don't want it to be critiqued like it's a super serious point.

Reversign said:
Even if the production team can keep up up that pacing. There's will something called marketing. A lot of eastern TV shows air weekly so that fanbases can keep up with it all and create some talk about the new episode. Only western TV shows mass air episodes.

dest-roy96 said:
It is already hard for animators to get episodes finished before the deadline. For example the current delay of the next Zom 100 episode. Two episodes in a week would be impossible. Do you want animators to be worked to death?

Whyyouask said:
how you read the beginning of the thread and still say something so stupid

Whyyouask said:
No animated is better two episodes a week is perfect gives us enough time to be satisfied and wait for the next week with no rush 

ghier said:

I mean, you could just push the release so the schedule isn’t backed up

V1P3R0P said:
Ok, let me breakdown anime production as I understand it, in as simple way as possible.

So there are mainly 3 stages in production.

Pre Production: Planning how many source will be adapted, selecting the staff working on it, scripting and storyboarding episodes etc... Takes atleast around 2-3 months and can be more depending on what the source is.

Production: Where the actual animations happen. The animations are not done by computer softwares (initially), but actually drawn by hand. There are usually 2 types of animators, Key animators and In between animators. So, key animators draw the key frames, while the in betweeners draw the movement frames between the key frames. The frames are usually drawn following the storyboards.

After the frames are ready(which goes through lots of corrections and reworks), next comes the coloring and art settings. Then there is adding special effects which is done by DoP (Director of Photography). if 3D is used in scenes, they also go to other departments that works on the 3D models and stuff, but I'm not really sure about that.
The production in whole can span around 6-12 months minimum (for a 12 episodes season) and can take longer depending on the number of episodes and number of people working on it. I have read somewhere that each episode needs atleast 8 weeks for production.

Post Production: Basically putting together frames into episodes, sound production, music production, voice casting etc...

this video explains it better


Now, that we know the basic breakdown of the production, A show does not complete production before the release. Now a days, a show will be in constant production until around last 2 episodes are pending to come out. But this is not a reason for why we get only 1 episode a week. It has to do with Japanese TV schedules. Since they are mainly airing the show in Japanese TV, it only allows around 30 minutes time frame for an episode, but if there is some special episode or in some cases for premiere, they can book additinal time slots for the same day. in a season around 40-50 animes air for 3 months straight and there are other variety shows as well. Hence it is not possible to add a double length time for all the episodes or air multiple episodes a week. The animes which have double length time for all the episodes or have bulk release are mainly on OTT platforms, specifically speaking Netflix. These shows dont air on Japanese TV and are released specifically on these platforms.

This is a long post. So the TL;DR is that an episode a week is because of TV schedule restrictions in Japan and doesn't have much to do with the production.