The winter anime season had started off strong at the beginning of the month, but just a few weeks later some series have gone on hiatus indefinitely. The most notorious case has been that of ‘NieR: Automata Ver1. 1a’, but a’ has also been touchedAyakashi Triangle’, ‘Unite Up’ and ‘Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible’.
The latter seems an exceptional case because it does have a return date and it seems that production has been complicated by the CCOVID-19… But with the Aniplex animes another rooster is crowing.
Not even for five more salaries
For the stops of ‘NieR: Automata’ and ‘Ayakashi Triangle’ COVID-19 has also been raised as the main reason, but some industry professionals are giving their opinion on the subject and Aniplex is not doing well as a producer.
Director kanta kamei has spoken since your Twitter account about the work schedules that the study proposed, and how they would not be easy to meet, but in the end Aniplex ignored it.
“A while ago, I talked to a producer at Aniplex and told them that maybe they should stop scheduling anime for winter releases. The whole team would be very burned out during the New Year holidays and they wouldn’t be able to enjoy their vacation,” Kamei began. “And about outsourcing, it would be Lunar New Year and people [en China] doesn’t work then. But they ignored my comments.”
Years ago much of the animation outsourcing was done in Korea, but now this work has been moving more and more to China. And even if there is external labor, the dates of the January releases are difficult to meet.
“And regarding outsourcing in China, a producer told me that they tried to offer five times what they normally would for a shot during the Lunar New Year and nobody wanted it…” said the director. “That means that even if we pay three times as much or whatever, nobody goes to work during the holidays.”
It is not the first time that Aniplex animes have problems with their impossible production schedules, and other industry specialists have previously denounced it. In this case, it has been more famous when we got together with a long-awaited anime like ‘NieR: Automata Ver1. 1a’but unfortunately for now you can only be patient.