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As part of a current interview, Takuya Yoshioka and Maki Mihara, both anime producers at Kadokawa, spoke about the future of anime at home and abroad. We summarize the details below.
Service position in danger?
Basically, the interview with the Kadokawa-owned platform The Television revolved around the experience of working on the success series “My Happy Marriage”, but after a while it drifted away from this topic when a question about the increasing import of anime from China and South Korea came up to Japan.
Yoshioka then expressed his concerns about the potential effects for domestic anime production, especially since every visual work would contain elements that could only arise from the cultural background or the deep-rooted values ​​of a country.
The current production model, which focuses on short-term profits, will be uncomfortable because the lower costs abroad sooner or later could lead to a relocation of investments and thus to a decline in domestic anime industry, which ultimately migration.
New model is needed
This is also favored by the fact that anime studios in South Korea and China would rapidly improve their production capacities.
For example, the South Korean Studio PPuri was praised in the highest tones for his work on the opening of the first season of “Solo Leveling”, whereas the quality of Chinese animations would have increased so much that new productions would now be regularly exported to Japan.
In recent times, one could have observed that more and more animators are moving to the video game industry, as this would be at least 30 years ahead of the working conditions and remuneration of the anime industry.
To prevent this, it would be time to rethink the production model and create a really sustainable anime production, which could be guaranteed, for example, by correct investing of large companies.
Because only if the anime industry in Japan becomes more stable and relies on a very solid growth basis can Japan, according to Mihara, continue to remain a leader in anime production in the future, while the growing importance of foreign animation studios would still have a positive amount of the industry.
