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    Anime creators received “0.0%” of Japanese government’s entertainment industry subsidies in 2024, official documents show
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    Anime creators received “0.0%” of Japanese government’s entertainment industry subsidies in 2024, official documents show

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    2. Rose-an-Foxie on

      I am always amazed that so many countries just don’t seem to care about animation, but it’s always more amazing to see such a huge part of the modern culture be neglected in a country like Japan. where it’s such a big industry

    3. Ryudok on

      I used to work for a big game developer which released their games overseas. A lot of them using anime-ish characters and what not.

      There was this subsidy called JLOP that granted a few million yen to those portraying “Cool Japan” overseas, and we had to fill a submission per game to try to get it. We even had a former congressman in the company taking care of the talk with the government when filling the paperwork, while we used to give them the rationale and information on why we should get subsidized.

      I remember specifically getting around 50 million yen for a certain release, which we mostly used on Google Ads and similar advertisement. This was for a company that back in the day was making multiple hundreds of millions of yen in profits yearly btw.

    5. BigPapaSlut on

      Their biggest export outside of automotive. I know why, it’s cause they don’t bribe.