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100 Girlfriends Anime's Character Designer Akane Yona Breaks Down on Twitter saying "Tears Won't Stop, and I Can't Draw" and "The Countdown to Despair Has Begun", Implying that the Production Conditions Behind the Scenes are Very Bad.

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Jan 6, 10:23 AM
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so she said this
Akane Yano (100 Girlfriends Character Designer) gives an update - her worries were NOT related to her work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1hvv3wn/akane_yano_100_girlfriends_character_designer/
maybe she backpedaled because the higher ups commanded her or this is the truth

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NAWWW WAHT ???!!!
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This makes me want to post a George Ffloyd meme, but I doubt production issues have any real solution. I doubt anime can be so premium in quality if the employees were paid fairly. Disney is a good example of how paying everyone properly leads to slop in current projects. Most of our tech is made in labor camps, but I doubt most of us want to pay a higher price to get it ethically.
Jan 6, 11:47 AM
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thats crazy,i knew 100 was toomany
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WE CAN NEVER BE HAPPY OMG FIRST SASAKOI NOW THIS IF IT ONLY GETS 2 SEASONS IM GONNA FLIP OUT
Jan 6, 11:53 AM
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rohan121 said:
This makes me want to post a George Ffloyd meme, but I doubt production issues have any real solution. I doubt anime can be so premium in quality if the employees were paid fairly. Disney is a good example of how paying everyone properly leads to slop in current projects. Most of our tech is made in labor camps, but I doubt most of us want to pay a higher price to get it ethically.

Not quite a big fan of the link between Ffloyd (who was at least suspected of a crime) and a guy merely doing his job but I second all the other things you said.
Jan 6, 12:35 PM
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“Countdown to despair has begun” is the most horrifying phrase I’ve ever heard. This is just supposed to be a funny goofy anime about 100 girlfriends. How the fuck did they get to a point of “countdown to despair” 💀

And DragyG is racist why tf are u defending that cop that’s insane
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rohan121 said:
This makes me want to post a George Ffloyd meme, but I doubt production issues have any real solution. I doubt anime can be so premium in quality if the employees were paid fairly. Disney is a good example of how paying everyone properly leads to slop in current projects. Most of our tech is made in labor camps, but I doubt most of us want to pay a higher price to get it ethically.

Is that because you could not post a Jordan Neely meme? What a fucking retarded take. Soon, you might have to go further back to Michael Brown, oh wait, that was propped up shit too.

And is the amount of money they are paid the only determining factor as to whether they do a good job or not? Is disney trash because they pay fairly? or because they wouldn't? or maybe something else altogether that has little to do with money?

Why not talk about that (and, even before that, researching honestly about it) instead of bringing inflammatory race baiting shit onto a forum discussion about anime production? This ain't bluesky, where everyone is as deranged as you are, and everyone who disagrees is "racist". talking to you, @TAPanos
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TAPanos said:
“Countdown to despair has begun” is the most horrifying phrase I’ve ever heard. This is just supposed to be a funny goofy anime about 100 girlfriends. How the fuck did they get to a point of “countdown to despair” 💀

And DragyG is racist why tf are u defending that cop that’s insane

Before calling someone racist please think about what they said for 2 seconds.

I said Ffloyed was suspected of a crime.
I said the charadesigner is doing his job.

I never said it was a good thing that Ffloyed got killed. Only that they aren't to be compared since one is a law enforcement issue and the other one is work ethic issue.
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IhnalakoKaina said:
rohan121 said:
This makes me want to post a George Ffloyd meme, but I doubt production issues have any real solution. I doubt anime can be so premium in quality if the employees were paid fairly. Disney is a good example of how paying everyone properly leads to slop in current projects. Most of our tech is made in labor camps, but I doubt most of us want to pay a higher price to get it ethically.

Is that because you could not post a Jordan Neely meme? What a fucking retarded take. Soon, you might have to go further back to Michael Brown, oh wait, that was propped up shit too.

And is the amount of money they are paid the only determining factor as to whether they do a good job or not? Is disney trash because they pay fairly? or because they wouldn't? or maybe something else altogether that has little to do with money?

Why not talk about that (and, even before that, researching honestly about it) instead of bringing inflammatory race baiting shit onto a forum discussion about anime production? This ain't bluesky, where everyone is as deranged as you are, and everyone who disagrees is "racist". talking to you, @TAPanos

I ain't disagreeing nor agreeing with that Tapas guy. He obviously missed the point.
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Didn't she also say that about season 1?
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Didn't she also say that about season 1?
@Infernalization thats a bold claim you have to back that up with a source too
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I could pretend that I care, but I just wanna enjoy the show.
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Zarutaku said:
I could pretend that I care, but I just wanna enjoy the show.

I wanna enjoy it too but I would be happier if I knew the people producing it are working in a sane environment.

But let's be honest

That's not an industry nor a Japanese issue here. That's merely the harsh reality most lower educated workers are living around the world.
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deg said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1hure7p/100_girlfriends_animes_character_designer_akane/

so whats the solution to the overproduction of anime this days? with more anime being produce there is less time to make them plus there are lots of amateur animators (mostly hired on twitter aka x) being corrected by the only few and limited veteran animators and corrections doubles the time of production again

Yeah, she was going through hell in season 1, look at her tweets back in season 1's airing. "Instead of Help, a whip was brought down".
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deg said:
@Infernalization thats a bold claim you have to back that up with a source too

It's not really a claim. It was a question fo confirm whether I recalled somethimg correctly or not.
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DragyG said:
Zarutaku said:
I could pretend that I care, but I just wanna enjoy the show.

I wanna enjoy it too but I would be happier if I knew the people producing it are working in a sane environment.

But let's be honest

That's not an industry nor a Japanese issue here. That's merely the harsh reality most lower educated workers are living around the world.

the problem is, animation is NOT a lower educated job, its a highly paid job, but its a salary job and japans salary rates also mean unpaid overtime, and its tabboo to leave work unless your boss is satisfied with your work
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The same team made that QQ special and it definitely looked undercooked, i'm expecting a pretty big downgrade compared to season 1.
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deg said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1hure7p/100_girlfriends_animes_character_designer_akane/

so whats the solution to the overproduction of anime this days? with more anime being produce there is less time to make them plus there are lots of amateur animators (mostly hired on twitter aka x) being corrected by the only few and limited veteran animators and corrections doubles the time of production again

The answer for this problem is industry wide worker unionization, and the development of worker cooperative studios to compete against the current established studios. Workers have no power unless it’s through collective bargaining.
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Fuck man, just Japanese work conditions ig.
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it's worrying about what goes on in anime studios
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Lmao she better take a 💊 and get that ass to work
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She could have, and is always able to, break away from this (in)glorious employee-and-consumer-exploiting industry and file a lawsuit for violation of working conditions.



Also it raises me doubt that this is another of their dirty PR strategies.
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Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help! You know I need someone. Helpppppp!

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If the anime conditions for this show remained like this, we may never get a Season 3 😭😭
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Damn, that's hard to hear. Hope the show doesn't suffer a downgrade & that the animators are being treated well..
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The same team made that QQ special and it definitely looked undercooked, i'm expecting a pretty big downgrade compared to season 1.
@Neterosan

That special was mostly outsourced, presumedly because most of their in-house staff was on 100G.

https://x.com/sarca_sc/status/1872334925258744305
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siraqOrNoraq said:
Lmao she better take a 💊 and get that ass to work

hope you're joking
Jan 7, 1:12 AM
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Yeah, nothing new she said about the production not being good in S1 and nothing changed

Feel bad for her cuz she loves 100 GF
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If the anime conditions for this show remained like this, we may never get a Season 3 😭😭
@Hassaan69 it will cuz the situation was same for S1
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@Infernalization thats a bold claim you have to back that up with a source too
@deg check her tweets from December 2023

Here's the tweet from around S1 ↓
https://x.com/if_224/status/1732720190847430722
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GreatCarerJack said:
DragyG said:

I wanna enjoy it too but I would be happier if I knew the people producing it are working in a sane environment.

But let's be honest

That's not an industry nor a Japanese issue here. That's merely the harsh reality most lower educated workers are living around the world.

the problem is, animation is NOT a lower educated job, its a highly paid job, but its a salary job and japans salary rates also mean unpaid overtime, and its tabboo to leave work unless your boss is satisfied with your work

It's a lower educated job since you can become animator by graduating with a senmonshi degree.
https://www.tokyo-anime.jp/

You may then climb the ladder and get higher positions with a little bit more responsibilities but it won't become a post-grad position.

The income of an animator at the beginning of their career is about a monthly 90,000 JPY (572 USD 548 EUR) the mean income would be around 200,000 (1,270 USD 1,218 EUR)
https://www.dat.ac.jp/course/anime/anime-column/animator-income/
while Japan mean income is approximately 381,667 JPY (2,422 USD 2,332 EUR)

So nope it's not a high paying job in Japan for most of those working in that industry. (There are a few that are paid really much more than this)

For the unpaid overtime work I don't know many countries in which overtime is automatically retributed (in most cases the law says it should be paid while most workers keep their mouth shut so they don't get fired and their company doesn't get someone to do the same job while not mouthing)
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The same team made that QQ special and it definitely looked undercooked, i'm expecting a pretty big downgrade compared to season 1.
https://x.com/if_224/status/1876566070401851803

Yano posted again, thanking everyone and saying that she is not troubled about work, so people don't need to worry. So maybe it's something more personal and not regarding particularly harsh production, industry insiders hasn't shared any stories if there is heavy crunch rn on Bibury. So maybe it's all works fine in the end and we overreacted a bit.

Neterosan said:
The same team made that QQ special and it definitely looked undercooked, i'm expecting a pretty big downgrade compared to season 1.


Those who went on pre-screening said that first episodes looked great. Quintuplets production line was mostly outsourced and team was working on 100gf instead and Grisaia that airing in this season and upcoming 2 cours of Witch Watch in Spring have different key staff.
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M-T_S said:
Yeah, nothing new she said about the production not being good in S1 and nothing changed

Feel bad for her cuz she loves 100 GF

Sounds like she won’t for very long if the studio keeps treating her like this… I wouldn’t blame anyone on the production team for despising the series if they’re being abused to make it
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so she said this
Akane Yano (100 Girlfriends Character Designer) gives an update - her worries were NOT related to her work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1hvv3wn/akane_yano_100_girlfriends_character_designer/
maybe she backpedaled because the higher ups commanded her or this is the truth
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"Calm down Reddit she said it wasn't related to her work at all."

Most perpetual online/higher-up alt account take I've seen on the matter
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she needs to be fired, she's an insult to actual hard labors, like you're drawing how hard can it be, like try being a plumber or something, that artist is so privileged she makes my blood boil
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Haunt88 said:
she needs to be fired, she's an insult to actual hard labors, like you're drawing how hard can it be, like try being a plumber or something, that artist is so privileged she makes my blood boil

💀Try drawing yourself, then. If you think it's so easy.
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Meep777 said:
M-T_S said:
Yeah, nothing new she said about the production not being good in S1 and nothing changed

Feel bad for her cuz she loves 100 GF

Sounds like she won’t for very long if the studio keeps treating her like this… I wouldn’t blame anyone on the production team for despising the series if they’re being abused to make it

She's freelance, she's been since before 100 kanojo. She could have left the studio long ago, but has worked with them for many years even before this show came up.
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Who tf cares it’s a parody series not like it has a mind-blowing plot or story to carry itself so there’s no need to be worried about the show being bad cuz the animation looked fine and as long as the joke hits all’s well lol I’m pretty sure that Bilbury studio working on Grisaia, Witch watch and this took a toll on the rest of the employees as usual studios being greedy and biting off more than they can chew.
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People here genuinely believed random reddit post that didn't even get animator name right, which got copied by other youtubers and trashy sites like CBR for drama sake. Not only she clarified it's not work related , but no other industry leaker confirmed poor working condition there. Japanese fans didn't even paid much attention to this post, because random venting on twitter like this is common there, Yano even had the a few similar tweets during season 1 and production wasn't affected. So can we stop discussing this? There are bigger news, images of episode 1, OP 1 and ED1 leaked already.
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she needs to be fired, she's an insult to actual hard labors, like you're drawing how hard can it be, like try being a plumber or something, that artist is so privileged she makes my blood boil

💀Try drawing yourself, then. If you think it's so easy.
@raceraot it's a fact it's easy, there's at least 10000 other jobs way more hard and even dangerous
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Haunt88 said:
@raceraot it's a fact it's easy, there's at least 10000 other jobs way more hard and even dangerous

Then draw, dude, walk the walk, then. If it's so easy, do it, get to a character designer position and walk the walk.
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People here genuinely believed random reddit post that didn't even get animator name right, which got copied by other youtubers and trashy sites like CBR for drama sake. Not only she clarified it's not work related , but no other industry leaker confirmed poor working condition there. Japanese fans didn't even paid much attention to this post, because random venting on twitter like this is common there, Yano even had the a few similar tweets during season 1 and production wasn't affected. So can we stop discussing this? There are bigger news, images of episode 1, OP 1 and ED1 leaked already.
@L0ken Agreed.

Theres no way to know for sure how it'll turn out till the season is fully released.

So please stop the fearmongering.
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@raceraot it's a fact it's easy, there's at least 10000 other jobs way more hard and even dangerous

Then draw, dude, walk the walk, then. If it's so easy, do it, get to a character designer position and walk the walk.
@raceraot nice, genetic fallacy
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Japan is the only country that can make people be depressed because of a 2d guy having 100 girlfriends.
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I felt terrible when i heard this before...

100 girlfriends is such an amazing and wholesome show, but the idea that the development had to be so intense...

This is the type of series that needs to NOT have brutalist production. Treat it with care, i beg you!



. . .
But yeah, always gotta remember that especially with girls (and particularly japanese girls) on social media, is to not extrapolate what you think they mean or why. It's very likely it was just an emotional moment they were having because of who knows how many factors in their life, and that happened to be their wording at the time. Maybe her grandma just died and she couldn't focus on her art, you don't know.

Whatever was bothering her, like anyone, i simply hope she is getting through it.
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I felt terrible when i heard this before...

100 girlfriends is such an amazing and wholesome show, but the idea that the development had to be so intense...

This is the type of series that needs to NOT have brutalist production. Treat it with care, i beg you!



. . .
But yeah, always gotta remember that especially with girls (and particularly japanese girls) on social media, is to not extrapolate what you think they mean or why. It's very likely it was just an emotional moment they were having because of who knows how many factors in their life, and that happened to be their wording at the time. Maybe her grandma just died and she couldn't focus on her art, you don't know.

Whatever was bothering her, like anyone, i simply hope she is getting through it.
@GenesisAria Sadly this is the internet and ppl will change anything to suit their narrative :/
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@raceraot nice, genetic fallacy
@Haunt88 Nice proving him right.
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I don’t think this is 100% percent all because of animation, most of it would be done by now as Bibury is a good studio, maybe some stuff is happening in her personal life.
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she needs to be fired, she's an insult to actual hard labors, like you're drawing how hard can it be, like try being a plumber or something, that artist is so privileged she makes my blood boil
@Haunt88

Views mutual class struggle through the lens of "it's not capital owners, but actually the humanities majors that need to be brought down a peg."

Sad.

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