The MAPPA Situation is Worse Than I Thought

The situation at MAPPA is worse than I thought. Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 has experienced some insane production issues.

*Drew’s Notes:
The map of production timelines is not 100% accurate, but it was based on the most relevant info I could find.

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Sources:

0:00 Intro
0:40 What happened at MAPPA?
1:15 We have to go back... Way back.
2:43 JJK0 has Major Issues
3:43 Chainsaw Man THROWS
4:42 JJK S2 EP 17 30% WR
6:31 Who is Responsible?
8:13 Will this Issue Persist?
9:00 Learn to Draw Like the Pros!

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[elistrations]

As an animation major, I was not only angered, but depressed because people on Twitter were just dehumanizing the animators and treating them like crap while Mappa conducts legalized slave labor again and again. I have an acquaintance who went to the same college I went to and they worked on JJK and my god, their work was amazing but looking at it now, I HOPE they weren't treated like most of the animators were.

[heyitsFluxxy]

The “30% of the vision” tweet def did not mean “the episode was 30% done” but instead “we were not able to do 70% of the things we wanted to do”

[prisma.]

When I saw that episode I thought "what a bold design decision, all of it is rough lines and simple colors, translates the raw power of their fight really well", but now I realize it's all mostly well composed roughs to hide the unfinishedness of it all. It's really heartbreaking.

[benp.]

Even if MAPPA where to suddenly treat their animators fairly and reduce production, some other studio will take up the same path. The only way I can see this problem solved is by new worker laws from the japanese government. This isn't just a MAPPA issue, MAPPA is just a well known studio and therefore in bad press, but there are countless Japanese office companies with similar or worse work environment.

[whatidoknow]

I like how mappa artists released the half finished Mahoraga fight and then affirmed that it is indeed half finished so that their poor working conditions would become public. They basically said "We makin it out of the office with this one"

[datwee]

lets not forget, this whole time the CSM Reze arc was in production after the drop of the first season

[Capero]

Domain expansion: Inhumane work conditions

[MillyKKitty]

So basically, the production committee decides how much time a studio gets to animate a show, without any knowledge of what it takes to animate. Meanwhile the CEO of Mappa takes on these deals because he wants their studio to have a high quantity of quality productions, without any idea how long it actually takes to animate a season.

And because the CEO accepts and delivers through crunch, the Production committee thinks the time they give to the studio is enough and shorten the production time again and again.

The animators, who have passion, get more and more work pushed on to them in smaller timeframes, and have to crunch their way through it. And in the end they feel like failures, exhausted and lost of passion.
"When the animator sticks out, it gets hydraulic pressed down"

[sooling]

imagine working on projects like jjk, aot and the biggest names in anime, but not being able to look back fondly, or be proud of your work because of the conditions you were working in

[slouch]

i don't get how they were physically capable of producing so much high quality animation so quickly. you would expect more corner cutting with time restrictions like that. even the 30% complete episode of jjk was an absolute banger

[lesensdelavie]

A message for Mappa: Mappa, let the animators rest as long as they need. We are fine waiting any amount of time.

[bizudamarasengan]

Domain expansion: Melovelant Contracts

[ShinmegamiPersona]

What’s sad is that nobody gives a f. Consumers will keep on buying the projects, like the csm movie, and don’t care. It happened with solo leveling with the creating dying and with roxana with the artist losing her baby and people still buying the manhwa

[forgewhelbon]

Man I hope chainsaw man movie and season 2 won’t get poorly adapted. I hope the situation will improve. Bless these animators.

[irregulargamer]

this is the 10th time the MAPPA situation is "worse than we thought". we've been having this discussion throughout the entirety of JJK Season 2

[KabochaOu]

Quitting isn’t the solution: striking IS. The studio won’t be able to hire fresh-faced new recruits as scabs if they have to get them past a picket line (though I’m not an expert on Japanese labour law). If animators don’t unionize there’s no way this situation will ever change just out of the goodwill of the managements’ hearts

[junba]

Great video man! I really hope these people find better positions in companies that respect their work and the individual.

[Dingusdoofus]

The animators for the JJK/CSM team are mostly freelancers so AoT and JJK under production at the same time didn’t negatively affect AoT, which was done with in house animators.

Also S2 ep.17 wasn’t 30% done. The staff said that their vision for the episode was 30% done. The actual production for the episode is closer to 70-80% done (my personal guess but it’s still bad). If the vision for the episode was 100% done then the Sukuna vs Mahoraga fight would’ve been much more crazier and insane since there are so many creative minds that worked on this.

[Kabutsuji]

You know that the "30% complete"" is completely wrong right? what was said was that only 30% of the ARTISTIC VISION was fully realized.