Vice President Hiroya Hasegawa addressed MAPPA’s production woes. “[…] In recent years, unlike when we joined, more people are now casually involved with animation, so when they actually get involved in anime production…the world is different from what they imagined […]”

Right, it’s the animator’s faults for being so naive as to think an internationally successful business in a growing industry would be able to pay, at minimum, a living wage to the people who work in grueling conditions with tight deadlines to make their product. Their expectations are just too high, you see.

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