Comments on: Kadokawa wants all its animation staff to be “able to afford a Benz” as it shifts to higher-budget, global anime production

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:22:30 +0000

Anime is only good as a source of cultural export within the paradigms currently present in Japan. Therefore changing standard at the level of style, intent, cultural purpose, audience expectations, and design philosophy will come at the cost of all that matters for the sake of profit. While any studio can use money and metrics to force works to meets sales metrics, making things for an audience that cares is far more important at a genuinely existential level. Why have art at all if it is simply a tool for profit, and has no real merit otherwise? At that point just invest in an established market and close up shop.

By: Borb

Borb — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:05:05 +0000

Dear Kadokawa, the reason that your animators are not riding in a Mercedes Benz is because you use Chinese and Indian animators whom you pay scraps, localisation and distribution has been an afterthought until now. You can throw billions to a anime, but if the story sucks it aint gonna sell. Make anime for Japanese people first, and then sell overseas by making a online streaming service like Steam is for gaming, but hosted from Japan and with Japanese moderators and free from activist femminism.

By: Zyolluax

Zyolluax — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:59:31 +0000

While opening up overseas product branches sounds like a good idea how using Disney as a standard is kinda strange especially since they have been releasing several animation flops against their high production value. Funnily enough Sony pictures animation would be a better standard since their budgets are cheaper than Disney yet still higher than anime.