The biggest problem with the anime industry is that working conditions in most studios are apparantly crap. Everything I've read (i.e. this
and this) indicates that the working hours are long, the pay is bad, and the benefits are nonexistant.
It makes sense that new recruits would mostly be otaku, since only diehard anime fans would willingly enter a career where working conditions are significantly worse than fast food restaurants.
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As explained in Maskerade: when you advertise for a place in a fast food restaurant, you don't get a long queue of dreaming hopefuls.
I think I can tell what Miyazaki is referring to. Far too many shows animate characters as if they were the reference character doll moving. To make them believable, you need to give them peculiar (but not obvious) mannerisms, subtle facial cues (even if stylised), detached clothes and waving hair. This requires breaking out of stylisation to some extent (and a good animation budget, though not a huge one).
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So it's basically a snake chewing its own tail now.
Um, don't think I follow you right now.
Except Sturgeon's Law was made as a Counter to the idea of 90% of everything being crap, not for supporting that.
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