• hypertown@ani.social
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    3 days ago

    Hollywood executives are probably thinking like this: “I heard this whole anime thing is getting popular no? Those are just cartoons but Chinese right? Huh, Japanese? Whatever let’s just give them a few millions from our 10 billion dollars budget and we can milk our done to death stories even more!”

    Honestly that is something I kinda fear. If Hollywood buys out much of the anime industry they could dictate what’s being produced. And I assure you that anything original is going to be rejected because it’s too “risky” and “it doesn’t make sense from a business perspective”.
    Maybe it’s ridiculous but that’s just a fear I have.

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      3 days ago

      If Hollywood buys out much of the anime industry

      Sony has quite a head start on this already, Hollywood be slackin.

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      3 days ago

      I could easily see it happening, especially with how comparatively cheap anime is to produce.

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          Oh, of course. I’m not saying it’s easy to produce, or that it should be cheap. From a corporate perspective it hardly matters why it’s cheap though.

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        Considering how much work needs to be done to produce even a mid anime the difference is staggering.

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          Unfortunately, the people working in the animation studios are underpaid and overworked.

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            Unfortunately. But I feel like even if you gave everyone a good pay the gap would still remain.