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Day: August 5, 2022

The Layout Crisis: The Collapse Of Anime’s Traditional Immersion, And The Attempts To Build It Anew

The Layout Crisis: The Collapse Of Anime’s Traditional Immersion, And The Attempts To Build It Anew

The layouts, the backbone of Japanese animation and its keen sense of immersion, are currently shattering. In this long dive, we contrasted the views of industry veterans and fresh faces with our own findings: the death of studio culture and training cycles, the pressure of cynical commercialism, the inherent labor issues, and the attempts to address it all.