Kyoto Animation name would have become very popular, both in Japan and abroad. Even perhaps no exaggeration when I consider all of otaku at least seen this studio work one time in her life. Maybe. Anime anime made large KyoAni them are:
Suzumiya Haruhi
Lucky Star
Full Metal Panic
K-On!
and many more.
But behind that success, there may be a dark tale. Because through company review sites CareerConnection.jp , a bad review given to KyoAni. Only 1.9 stars out of 5 maximum. Intrigued by this review, I asked for help Etherlite month that language much better at it than me to translate the review of the former employee.
These reviews are given by someone who claimed to have worked as an employee of the Kyoto Animation, because he did not give her name or position in the review. Written when he was working in 2015, aged in his late 20s and earn 3.4 million yen per year, or 280,000 yen per month.
"KyoAni founded by a woman (Yoko Hatta) and said that the company is making it easier for women to be promoted than men. The women were also given more job opportunities, more important, while the men are given work behind the scenes that plain and did not have a chance to advance (career path). There is no proper evaluation also create a system of promotion becomes more difficult, where the men did not get a chance to prove themselves.
On the one hand, if you get a job that stands out it is easy for you to get a promotion, but jobs like that are usually actually 'run' to the relatives of the founder of the company. It also makes a lot of men who have long worked here stopped, the ratio of men than women workers is 2: 7. "
Not only discrimination based on sex, but turns out many problems in employee rights such as overtime and working hours. Here is the testimony of a former employee in 2015 who was 22 years old:
1 Official daily working hours is 11 hours.
2 Working 6 days for 1 week.
3 1 month overtime to 100 hours, but paid only 70 hours.
4 Within a month can only be filed off 4 days only.
5 The official website says Saturday off, but there just makes you have to work on Saturdays.
6 Red date so normal working day.
7 Animator outside (outsourcing / freelance) that works fast to be given jobs that piled up overwhelmed, eventually they
have to come to the studio to work on their part.
8 Outside animators who worked slow also received the same fate.
9 That came early in the morning usually just finished working in the middle of the night, but still had time to return to the
last train.
The first review was written in mid-2015, and a female employee review was written in December 2015, but have recently netizen again raised this topic and talk about it, here are their comments:
"Companies black yes ..."
"Who wrote this site, can be checked credibility?"
"This is a topic that has long right? I think now paid KyoAni already over. "
"Everyone can write like this, who wrote anti KyoAni rich. "
Indeed, there has been no further information about who and what the reviews that are written in that site is true or not. However, if the review is not true, I think KyoAni would have asked to be removed, let alone have almost 2 years of the review is on the internet. There are 6 people who support the credibility of the review.
Hopefully, this time in the studio KyoAni employees already get paid and rewarded more appropriate. Because I really enjoyed some of the work KyoAni, one of which is Hibike! Euphonium.