Over the past few months, Studio MAPPA’s work has drawn criticism of various kinds, particularly the imperative for animators to finalize products like Attack of the Giants and many others. The Japanese company has actually loaded itself with titles to be produced and brings important and international partnerships like Yasuke with Netflix.
And that is exactly Relationship between MAP and Netflix criticized by Ippei Ichii, who shared on Twitter the salaries Netflix proposed to the studio for the production of an anime. He reveals that in his tweet Netflix has proposed paying 3800 yen per scenewhen the budget for TV series usually fluctuates between 3800 yen and 7000 yen (about 53 euros).
The number proposed by the streaming giant is therefore the minimum, and it is precisely on that the animator dwells. Despite the enormous capital that Netflix has at its disposal, in his opinion the giant would have chosen to do so But series order with these very low numbers. Other freelance animators intervened, such as Zayd, who noted that the budget was already 4,500 yen (approx.
Meanwhile, given the productions it will face in the future, like Attack of the Giants 4 Part 2 in the coming months, MAPPA has opened applications to find new animators.
