I thought the moments where those Animators worked with focus were relaxing (and I cut out the loud parts). But I especially wanted to share this documentary as I found it super interesting (and a bit depressing, too - the pressure and working conditions of these young Animators seem TOUGH). I hope you enjoy this as well! P.S. there might be ads because of some music, or because KZfaq does that now, who knows...

13:55 "I went home early yesterday. What time? 2AM" 💀

This video actually makes me sad asf. They’re obviously over worked and dangerously stressed... stay strong y’all

Animation artist deserves more money for there hard work

29:58 It took him a week to just draw the fireworks that will be shown in the cut for 4.5 seconds only.. Man, that's brutal. But I commend them though

depression: the documentary

17:20 "I end up feeling like I'm not good at all." Someone tell this man he IS good enough.

36:40 this dude called his own work trash what the heck man I really feel for this dude he's on some next level depression man. He lster just turned around and put his head in his hands and look like he was about to cry. I never said this but I really wanted to give that dude a hug. Everyone there deserves a lot of respect and most of all better work hours. It looks like there's people are worked to the bone.

This really makes you appreciate animation a lot more

"It's the first of many days of anguish." ... "Want more relaxing stuff?"

this is too much pressure for such young people, i had no idea what they went through until now

17:20 Damn, you can see from his expression that he really feels like crying :'(

As an artist and aspiring animator, this was actually very insightful, I already knew the animation industry in Japan is very stressful and a lot of them are worked to the bone to finish these cuts, but watching this really put in perspective how difficult it really is for them to work in such conditions, I really feel for them.

Now I feel bad for watching animes from pirated sources

The level of honesty in their culture is insane. They put all of their emotion in to every sentence and give honest thought. It’s hard to watch but I understand that’s part of the culture. Mr sakamoto made me sad :(

38:41 I got teary eyed at this part. All their hard work paying off, bringing characters to life through such stressful deadlines and hardly any sleep!

I have so much respect for those who are still making cartoons in general that isn't 3D animated. I feel the writers and creators that actually make our favorite characters, frame by frame by hand and bring them to life deserves more appreciation for their work.

'I went home early yesterday' 'What time?' '2AM' Holy fuckstick.

studio trigger works so hard on all of their anime, and if you were a beginner with people from gainax working with you? id probably cry. art careers are hard to begin with but having so many cuts get sent back to you would be heartbreaking especially if you think theyre perfect.

if any japanese animator or animator in general is reading this, you are enough. You work hard every single day for people's entertainment. And I just want you to know that you men and women are very talented doing this for us. Thank you for taking every single day from your lives and making beautiful pieces of art, and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.❤❤❤❤❤❤

I made an anime for my high school project, and it really was 15 hour work days of drawing the same thing over and over again, only after multiple cuts later, you have to go back to the beginning since you know you can do better for the earlier ones. However, it was heaps of fun, since I was able to make a story from my own mind, and have other people SEE what I was thinking of, which was a first for me. It’s been a year since then now, and I’m working on video games instead, but I won’t mind doing animating again as a side project.

"It's the first of many days of anguish." The way the narrator said this so calmly is pretty eerie

Now I feel bad for skipping that one Naruto episode ;( Seriously the level of dedication, patience and hard work they put onto these marvelous animations is insane. Hat's off to Japanese anime creators

Stress: the ASMR

“It’s hard.” Can someone please give that man a hug and tell him he’s doing so well, often the most talented people are the most oblivious to it 😭

I LOVE paper flipping sounds, and I love how the Japanese language sounds. So this is super relaxing while also being quite interesting!

I love behind-the-scenes videos of anime studios because the crew are always so soft spoken when working in the studio, plus animation production is super interesting to me. The film they made here, Little Witch Academia (2013), is one of my favorites too.

The director seems like a great person who truly cares for those under them. He treats them with respect.

The conditions in MAPPA can’t be shown on yt ☠️

Came here to sleep. Ended up watching the whole damn thing. Fm

The way our society would crumble without people who have passion and talent for design/aesthetics/creating beautiful art and yet it’s so undervalued and underpaid, is extremely depressing.

How can you be creative in an environment like that? These people are so resilient.

This video, I will show to people who claim that art is easy or that it’s not a real career/job. These people are putting their ALL into the craft and it gets frustrating when all your cuts are being sent back to you. The people who say art isn’t a real career probably watch an animated show and don’t realize that this is what the animators behind the show have to go through.

15:45 nooooooo it’s not awful, someone please give this man a hug, he seems so sad

39:07 "That scene took me 2 months to get right and its already over"

I can just feel the anxiety and stress being suppressed in kind words and silence.

I love how all the comments are about how stressed and depressed these guys are, cus as someone who just graduated from animation school, that’s literally all of us lmao 😂. We literally stay inside all day and get like 4 hours of sleep a night to produce seconds of animation, like you kinda gotta be crazy to be an animator.

25:50 when the camera slowly turns to them. I can only imagine how funny that looked from their perspective 😂 they were probably so embarrassed. Super interesting documentary! Forgot I was here for tingles and got sucked into their story lol

これらの画家は本当に忍耐強く謙虚です . これらの画家は、屈辱や怠惰のない仕事への誠実さに完全な敬意と感謝を持っています .

Let be honest between animators here : reading through the comments is extremly rewarding and refreshing. It really feels good to see our work apreciated by the public once in a while^^ this documentary is showing the hard part of the industry, but there is a lot of light too, dont worry

I am a newbie in the animation world but I can say from my own experience that making anime is a lot harder than most people think. I have been working on a scene that is barely 3 seconds long for the last 2 days (I worked on it for over 14 hours a day) and I am barely just finished with the keyframing + inbetweens. It will take me another day or two to scan the drawings, edit them with my animation software (color them + add backgrounds + add effects + add music + add my voice recordings etc.) and all of that for just 3 seconds. An anime episode is 20-23 minutes, an anime movie is an hour and a half-two hours, just imagine how much work has to be put in such long and exhausting projects. Animators/anyone who works in the animation field has my total respect.

Lol when the camera person was digging through the animators trash bin

Anyone else felt sorry for the boy who began speaking at about 15:16?

I feel sorry for expecting more episodes a week.. now I understand how hard it is to work on a single episode.. Huge respect to all these animators.. We all must know about our Favourite Animes Animators and support and celebrate them. It's the least we can do appreciate their hard & tedious work. In this video, it's well evident that they suffer mentally trying to squeeze out the best creative version of executing a scene. Thanks ♥️

A bit of clarification that maybe useless Little Witch short movie (27 minutes) is actually their first work as a new studio, regardless of most of their staff from Gainax. So this kind of interaction is common. Founded in October 2011, they have one year and 5 month for the premier on Anime Mirai March 2013. But they didn't get the "contract" of USD 480k budget from Cultural Agency untill June 2012. This first project goal was to develop young animator, which the key for this documentary as well rather than optimal working performance. It might be more hard, or more relax. As this Anime is also not adaptation but *original work* ..

6:32 "He keenly feels the difference in skill between himself and Director Yoshinari. It's the first of many days of anguish"

The amount of work that animators put in just a couple of seconds of animation is absolutely immaculate, they deserve everything, their work are absolutely phenomenal. 🔥❤

Animation is something that I have clearly been taking for granted. I never realized just how much time and work goes into animation, and all for my blatant consumption. I feel like an ingrate...

I can really understand the pressure of working with such an iconic legend in the animation industry such as You Yoshinari lol That is to be added to the already really high pressure of working in the anime production It's quite sad honestly The japanese animation industry really doesn't deserve the incredibly talented artists they have, considering how they treat them

Animation is no joke, hard work!!!

I love this style of documentary. Seems less 'professional' but feels a lot more personal.

Imagine doing hardwork with an anime, and in the end, some people say it's trash. Like that's mean bruh

Those people really look tired and exhausted man. But props studio trigger for making the animes hand drawn we dont see that very often and most of the animes are digitally animated ( I think ). I`ve seen some videos about hand draw animating and by the looks of it, it looks really hard and confusing because you have to turn up the pictures really fast so you can see the frames (If i can call it like that).

They need to be paid soooo much more for this amount of stress not only that but anime has literally saved lives, well that might be a bit of a stretch but knowing that you will always have anime does play a part in helping with depression. This alone is a reason to increase their pay and if that happens I think people with potential like that guy said wouldn't leave. I'm not sure why they left but if I had to guess its probably because the pay isn't worth the stress. Thank you to these and everyone else that's in this line of work I used to only watch the more highly rated anime but after seeing how much work they put into it I'm definitely gonna give more of the "Smaller" anime a chance

17:20 I kind of understand, since I’m a perfectionist myself, but at the end I think that fixes are normal, in every environment, whether it’s work or school ora external activities. Fixes are there so that you can understand where you need to work to make something as close as possible to perfection. In the past, like in school, I was sooooo sad whenever I got fixes on projects or homework, but I think it was good (when it was constructive) to make me understand how to do it properly the following time. Fixes do not exist to make you feel miserable, but to show you the right direction. I hope he understands that he’s great and that his director is teaching him how to improve his abilities day by day, so that one day he will be able to even do his job or to make perfect frames that don’t need fixes. Progress over perfection. If we were all perfect in the beginning, there wouldn’t be growth.

You are good enough. You are MORE than good enough. Drawing fireworks by hand is badass.

This was a real treat because Trigger are AMAZING and I wasn’t expecting it to be about them, plus the little Evangelion drawings 💖💖💖

this is why i never called anime/manga's art "ugly" or "bad" no matter how the art looks , because as an illustrator, i can understand how stressful drawing can be

Easily one of the best documentaries I've seen. So awesome I've never seen the inside of an anime studio like this. Loved all of it. every second of it. I wonder if they have done other studios. Thanks for this one

This was a joy to watch! New animators learning how much hard work it takes to be like their idols. Love it.

Thank u to all the artists for working very hard on each second of any movies. U’r guys are the best!!!!!!

They deserve so much respect, their dedication is incredible, I worry for them in many ways too, but can't help but admire them at the same time.

After 3years, I really appreciate those artists!!! I'm gonna save this video, you also did a great job by shooting the documentary. Thank you so much!💐

Way to go Sakamoto Masaru-san, you did struggle so much but today you are one of the most important asset for TRIGGER Be proud of yourself!!!!

28:37 What a lovely woman :)

I want a follow up documentary just to see how these guys are doing

Thank you so very much for sharing the work required to make this animation. Special thanks to the artists willing to have a camera sitting over their back as they work.

That lady’s advice was so sweet and I listened to it in my heart. Thank you lady 🥺☺️

I came here for the asmr and now im really interested in how the process work. I feel bad for those guys, they work really really hard i cant even imagine how stressfull that must be. But they still are so polite and calm even doe they probably are freaking the fuck out on the inside all the time. Anyways, nice video.

If you enjoyed this I would recommend the short documentary for the making of Akira, also on YT. The amount of work going into every frame is so impressive.

Just a pure appreciation to their work, pure talent and skill

I used to work for Toyota and was sent to train and work in Japan for 2 yrs in a professional development type program. It is a wonderful culture with wonderful people but I am extremely glad I don't live there. The working conditions are brutal (my Japanese counterparts brought sleeping pads and pajamas to work) as a professional you can only work for one company your entire life. It really is depressing and unnecessary as they never really got more work done than me because after 10 hrs of working the mind shuts down and your not really productive.

This is very interesting as well as relaxing to watch. I do sometimes wonder though whether it might be more efficient in those situations for workers to go home at a reasonable time and get some sleep rather than burning themselves out.

the animators, directors, artists..deserve more appreciation. Since I was a child, when I watched anime, all I could focus on was how amazing the animation was. I hoped that one day I could be part of something like that. I always wanted to know HOW it was done. in animated movies, I would be facinated with behind the scenes type stuff so I can actually see people working in the studio. the drafts, concept art, sketches, omg I couldn't get enough. These are true artists..they know about physics. perspective..portraying emotion, action, they have so much patience drawing things over and over again frame by frame.. they got it all. even the ones that have a bit of trouble and lose confidence, they are amazing. I wish that I could do something like this one day. Bring ideas to life like this. AUUGGHHH!!!!!

The way the camera moves and looks makes me think of the office.

"Can the animation be ready in time?" And the face of the 5 dudes 😂

I'm sure lots of artists think working for a studio like trigger would be a dream job. The reality appeared to be a soul destroying experience with next to no appreciation or joy for their amazing talents. It was really quite sad.

That was more relaxing then I thought it would be. Also, I found it very interesting. Thank you for this.

this makes me appreciate anime so much more thank you all for your hard work

this is really amazing the amount of dedication and passion goes into each second of work !

بطريقة ما اشعر بالذنب اريد ان اخبرهم بانهم جيدون اكثر من اللازم شكرا على مجهوداتكم جميعا

as an artist this was really inspiring to watch. thank you! I feel their passion and drive

AH this was so beautiful 💖💗💕 it was so beautiful seeing the voice actress inspire and rejuvenate their passion, and the director at the end realising he hopes he can work with these animators again and that they keep animating. I hope they kept animating too. But i hope the one animator who was so stressed and upset found the strength to keep going. It was really way more heartwarming and inspiring than i expected from this video. :)

Thanks KZfaqr for making this amazing documentary 3yra ago and thanks to youtube for suggesting it on my feed

I just wanna hug every artist and animator in the world after this, they need it and I know it

My respect truly goes to animators. They have this shit the hardest. In the entertainment industry.

Amazing. Anyone who sees a finished animation cannot imagine the dilemmas that occur among company workers and this documentary was wonderful in exposing this. Grateful.

I've been underestimating the amount of work needed to make an anime. Gotta give it to the Japanese people, they make so many anime series with so many episodes, but it looks like a very tedious job with repetitive tasks that takes a lot of time, patience and focus. And it looks like a very complex organization to manage, with a big investment included. They need a lot of people with different roles working hard to fit everything together. They need artists to draw, writers to create the story, lore and characters, animated film experts, graphic designers, software engineers, machine operators, voice actors.. They work under pressure with time limits and competition, but they always need to be in good mood to have artistic inspiration. Not to mention that some of them probably do more things at once. It seems even easier to just make a movie with real actors, makes you wonder why does Hollywood need such a big budget. Honestly i couldn't do this anime work personally, even if i had the talent to draw i couldn't draw under specific circumstances and measurements on demand and time limit. All of this looks like a big headache, my ass would get hot, numb and itchy from sitting all day doing those tasks. I would snap after 1 month.

“It is the first of many days of anguish” “want more relaxing stuff?”

I came here purely for the ASMR and the soft Japanese accent. I find it very calming. Not a big fan of anime though, but I do love all the hard work of hand drawing each frame they do. I can respect their dedication to their craft.

Thank you, dear animators for everything you do!!!🙏 Much love💖💖💖

A lot of people saying that these animators are overworked don’t realize that ALL japanese workers are overworked due to their work culture.

These people deserve all the respect.

Love listening to the Japanese language. Beautiful and relaxing.

Awesome documentary and Thank You for posting! :)

The backgrounds artist is amazing! They all are!

17:21 please don't be sad :( there are so many things in the world you'll actually be good at

7:34 "The delicate brush strokes are just like in a real painting" Mfer these ARE real paintings 😭😭😅

bro.. seriously, their job take sooo much effort, dedication, passion, and strength. they are all so talented. it must've been so fascinating and satisfying for them to finally see the final product of all their drawings. the anime industry is so interesting and talented. like, really. the way how they work just makes you appreciate everyone in the industry.

Wonderful unintentional ASMR! ❤ these guys work their asses off