Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-33899215-20180115031450/@comment-53539-20180216122111

Frugulity wrote: I don’t know how dumb some anime fans are, but when her Taiwanese (or Chinese if you think Taiwan is apart of China) design was released people were calling it anime. Like what? Anime is Japanese, donghua is Chinese/Taiwanese. Just because it looks similar to anime doesn’t mean it is anime, it’s the legend of korra all over again.

It’s the same for the Chinese and Korean Vocaloids =_= A lot of anime is made in China and Korea as it happens. For example, Beyblade has a lot of episodes in seasons made in Korean. Each episode is often animated by a different team. The best animator in G-Revolution of the show animated the Kai versus Tyson/Takao episode. However, while I can't remember specific episodes, there are some done by the south Korean animators, you can tell them because the animation quality dips and everything is slightly off model. These often turn out to be "filler" episodes while the ones with the best animators on are the most important. :-(

Its been an issue since the 2000s, for each frame of an anime I think the value is something like 400 yen for each artist they hire to recreate, or was then. Even then, no animator in Japan was living high as work was split amongst several animators. But going to china or Korea could at the time make the frame be as cheap as 240 yen per frame. Due to pressure from the companies to produce episodes to sell overseas, the demand for cheap animation to toss out quickly was escalating and hence the need to go to china and Korea to produce animation at half the cost even if it was bad.

A lot of Japanese animation, still is produced elsewhere other then in Japan.