Pre_Yum said:deg said:
MAPPA is a big company but they overwork and underpay their workers
I do agree with you that the staff members should be praised, not the studio itself. Then, again a studio is also somewhat responsible for how an adaptation will look or be adapted, will it do good or bad? But, again, we can't just blatantly say and pull out the 'they're underpaying and overworking the staff' card at every single thing when that incident occurred once. Yes, the industry itself is underpaid but is it MAPPA's fault that the animators are underpaid?
Like Yabuta sensei said, "For many anime titles, the studio's Investment ratio is close to 0%. Regardless of the quality or success of the title, in most cases there will be no return to studios, so studios cannot have retained earnings to make a sufficient investment."
Looking at his own statement, we can't put the whole blame on MAPPA for underpaying them when they themselves aren't making a lot from the projects they're working on. Nearly all of the money goes to the investors and the producers who've invested in the project. The thing we can call MAPPA out for is taking on too many projects, but then again we come with another obstacle is that 'If you want to keep a studio running especially if the studio has more than 250+ employees, you need to take multiple projects in a year', it's not the case of Kyoani and Ufotable with them where everything happens inside their own pipeline and the profits stay with them. And, ufotable who has multiple ways to earn their income not just animation business.
So, considering everything, it's a huge dilemma in the industry, if we want MAPPA to stop pushing themselves, either they'll have to become a smaller studio with smaller staff or they need to work on more projects like CHAINSAW MAN which is their own passion project where everything is in house and the profits will stay in the studio itself, that again will depend on the success of the project. If Chainsaw Man succeeds, that will encourage them to do more stuff like that.
the thing is it depends if they are part of the production committee aka the owners of the anime project, if MAPPA is part of the production committee of Chainsaw Man then they will have more profit like right now they are in the production committee of both Jujutsu Kaisen and Attack on Titan Final Season
you said the exceptions that are Ufotable and KyoAni too, both of this studios do everything in-house and they also have like 200 employees but they do not overwork their staff since they only do few anime each season and this studios make sure they are part of the production committee of every anime they make
MAPPA did the cheapest way possible to have 200 employees or become a big company and its not sustainable since they go for quantity of projects more, unlike with Ufotable and KyoAni where less is more motto but still they have 200 employees too (sure KyoAni lost like 40-50 employees from the fire incident though so now they only have like 150-160 employees at the moment which is still big compared to the likes of BONES or WIT)