Sakuga Thread #1

So here's an attempt at to get some long term Sakuga discussion going here.

Some Links:
The Sakuga Wiki [JP] - http://www18.atwiki.jp/sakuga/
ANN - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/

English Sakuga Blogs:
http://aninomiyako.wordpress.com/
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/

English Sakuga Twitters:
http://twitter.com/raito_kun
http://twitter.com/Duune99
http://twitter.com/kyouray
http://twitter.com/catsuka

To start things off, here's a Summer Wars MAD with Key animator's listed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpoHxWV3IG0

>>796
Part of working hard is appreciating the results. If what you produce is only ever consumed by the same ~1000 people who buy everything from that genre, then are they really working for what they want?

These are the sales results of Umimonogatari:
vol.01 *,999
vol.02 *,***
vol.03 *,***
vol.04 *,***

The last 3 didn't even sell enough to chart.. Just exactly who is going to remember all that good animation? Just who is going to appreciate it?

>>798
Yeah, we've known for a long time now that Animators get paid very badly in Japan.