Is it true that mangaka basically get paid nothing from anime adaptations?
Is it true that mangaka basically get paid nothing from anime adaptations?
Blake Roberts
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Ryder Rogers
They get like $1300 per episode
John Gutierrez
yes
maybe some of them accumulated enough power to extract more like Oda and Toriyama but normally it's shit
Gabriel Young
It mostly goes to the studio and broadcaster. If you want to support the creator, buy the source material/merch.
Liam Wilson
They earn royalties from merch.
Ryder Powell
yeah, but it boosts their manga so they indirectly get more
Brayden Lee
anime doesn't make money for shit so nobody gets paid much from it. it does come with massive promo campaigns and boosts manga sales so they still make a lot of money because of it though
>It mostly goes to the studio and broadcaster
the top earner as far as anime revenue itself is concerned is almost always the distributor (like Aniplex) then the publisher (like Shueisha)
studios rarely get any revenue at all from anime, their bottom line is the money they're paid to work on it, and a little bit extra if they can squeeze cash from tv designs and some deals with magazines, etc.
the broadcaster is sometimes on sometimes not, but even when they are they're usually behind the publisher. they get paid upfront when they're off the committee and it's a pretty huge margin so they don't need to be on at all to make a profit. it's only worth it if the show is expected to be big or if one of their producers is involved already, just because producers and other staff work with each other so much
Wyatt Lopez
it would depend on the nature of the deal they signed to get published. i would assume that the magazines use their clout to lock rising talent into substantial contracts the way a record label does. like if the mangaka signs over option rights to the publisher then yeah they'd get a pittance or nothing at all from a series/movie. it probably also doesn't help that the magazines and production studios are by an large part of the same media conglomerates thus further reducing the bargaining power of the individual mangaka
David Jackson
Manga authors make money from print circulation, manuscript payment, and merch (You can see a lot of them shilling their merch on twitter lol) About merch, it depends on the contracts they signed with publisher and toy companies.
Daniel Nelson
This. There is no way gege is not a millionare yet.
Cameron Kelly
Sailor Moon's author owns a lot of apartments, studios, Porsche, Ferrari in Japan.
>Sailor Moon” has sold over 35 million copies worldwide
How? Royalties from merchandise
Hudson Adams
I will personally mail him a million bucks just for making Geto
Caleb Hill
Yes, compare that to western comic writers that actually get paid because they're not idiots with their IP. Millar for example got paid $30-50M for the rights of his works, that's on top of what he already made from Kick-Ass and Kingsman.
Xavier Sullivan
Millar is a mega-kike that only makes comics as IP farms, he's not someone to admire or imitate.
Ryan King
Yes because anime makes no money.
Aaron Green
That's more because Naoko is actually smart enough to make her own company that manages her IPs and the fact that she was already rich to begin with. She had a Porsche before Sailor Moon was a thing. Not everyone is as business savvy as her.
Nathan Cruz
Anime isn't really lucrarive in the first place, they just make it to sell more manga (hence unfinished adaptations being the norm today forcing you to read source material).
Kayden Perry
Manga is just a small part of multimedia franchise. A lot of anime don't even have manga.
Eli Young
Anime isn't a super lucrative buisness in the first place. A mangaka's true profit is from merch... And royalties if they work out some good contracts.
Andrew Clark
Depends on whether or not you establish your ownership before the merch starts. Stuff like Lucky Land and Bird Studio serve as ways for the mangaka to have some control over their IP. Otherwise, you only get the money from direct manga sales, with the merch and anime serving as advertising.
Joseph James
Wtf, that's really fucking sad
Wyatt Barnes
yes, see pic related
about how much is this "upfront license fee" he talks about, what you need to know is that croc for example only got paid 20000 dollars for the kimetsu movie's license, which had a box office of half a billion dollars
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Adam Hernandez
Depends on how much of their work their own.
Toriyama and Nagai are rich because Toriyama ones one third of Dragon Ball (shueshia and bandai own the rest) and Nagai owns all his works except for Harenchi Gakuen.
Ayden Peterson
it depends of how much their manga (and thus their "brand") belongs to the editor, if most of it belongs to the author, he can ask for more money if they try to adapt it on TV.
but most Japanese authors get ripped off when negotiating their contract anyway.