Thread by @Yuyucow

Can you imagine if there were multiple reports of unpaid work - especially exploiting the vulnerable position of overseas workers - AND of consistently inhuman working schedules for production assistants for the same major anime studio, just a couple days from each other.

Wait.

The latter's a well-documented tragedy for the industry as a whole, but I'm wondering if I should put together a list of anime studios with... dodgy payment records, let's say. I've heard enough private reports & others from trustworthy creators to shame a bunch of studios.

Anonymity would be required of course. The reason these don't get openly reported all that often is because no one wants to be perceived as a troublesome worker, as immensely fucked up as that is. When specifics are made public the sources tend to be veterans allowed not to care.

And if we were to do that, it'd need a million disclaimers so that people realize problems are systemic, and that those studios are neither the only villains nor avoiding paying their workers all the time. No one would get away with that.

But even if it's "only" isolated instances of unpaid / unjustifiably delayed payment, it STILL is appalling, especially since we know of very big studios doing that. We have a word for ungodly harsh work that isn't remunerated and it's a very ugly one.