sakurajima.moe is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A comfy, non-toxic, and inclusive Anime/Manga/Japanese Media fandom and Japanese Media/Culture Content Creators (Bloggers/Artists/Video Creators/Podcasters/etc.) Mastodon Server

Server stats:

284
active users

chikorita157 🐰:unverified:
Quiet public

@yon As they say, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

I guess if there is more large scale production disasters like the recent Sasakoi one, but with a more popular series that causes a studio to go under as a result, will people start to notice?

Maybe not, but I think something needs to change, the current projectory is not sustainable.

@chikorita157 People don’t care. I don’t even have to quality about what sadly:(

I fully expect the rich to push for anything that pushes costs down. AI, low wage countries, exploiting harder, etc:( It’s what has happened in every single industry out there. I.e. animation isn’t different from automotive or retail.

We are seeing capitalism falling apart, across the board. None of this is sustainable.

I know it’s not very likely, but I would love to see independently published manga. 100% by themselves. And for that manga to make enough to finance an anime. And then us fans embracing that directly and paying for that in a sensible way. We don’t need publishers and all that. They are leeches.

Basically a worker centric model. But as I said, less likely. A bit like indie games if that makes sense (not a direct 1:1.).

Basically if the workers own their work (not just a single person, but *all* the workers that were part of it) I think we’d be in a better state. And I’d argue that we’d better entertainment too then.

(Sorry if the explaination is kinda confusing, me brain isn’t on fully today. Lots of cotton in my head:/ So interpolate into sanity anything that sounds crazy. I probably just messed up what I wrote by mistake.)