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Afaik the large majority of anime companies aren’t publicly traded… the issue in that field is usually within production committees (which can, and often do, include public companies).
Apparently that applies to a lot of gaming companies I like too… but that made me realize pretty much all of the publicly traded companies I know are shit and now I’m more afraid than before.
I'm actually referring to the monstrosity that is Sony-Funimation-Crunchyroll-Rightstuf.
The actual production companies are hit or miss on toxic work culture. I'm limited in my exposure, but Kyoto Animation seems to be a good one and A-1 Pictures is shit(oh, it's a subsidiary of Sony). Generally, the smaller the better. Smaller gap between the executives and the animators and smaller teams means they have to keep the workers happy because if a few leave, the whole production grounds to a halt. I'm afraid I'm seeing the slow decline of Gainax all over again.
Ehh… nowadays most studios outsource a LOT, so losing talent isn’t really that threatening. Afaik KyoAni and Ghibli are the only studios who barely outsource anything, other ones may have some “regular” director or animator but most of them are just freelancers.
Their bank account is much more important than talent retention, sadly (and most studios do pretty badly under that aspect as well, as most of the money goes to committees).
Anime industry is just a mess in general, it’s a miracle they even manage to release great products from time to time.