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Adding up to what I've said about the anime industry 2 and a half years ago, here's a video that shows how production committees actively work to keep project budgets(and therefore animator wages) low: Tl;dr: Since invested money means influence in how the anime is produced, everyone would...

No, it's not what I meant by collapse, although it may be a symptom of impending collapse. Without really reflecting and doing research on it, I can see two mechanisms for an anime industry collapse, which would combine and feedback each other: - The sectors of it who get the short stick decide...

My grandfather used to say that a pessimist is a well-informed optimist. As it stands now, the anime industry will come to a collapse, but I dare not guess when.

What I meant that even what was trendy then(and I mean 20 years ago) wasn't as dominantly present like the cute girls doing cute things fad(started by K-On! and which hasn't quite gone yet, although it's less dominant), or the little sister fad(started by OreImo, which also gave us the dubious...

In part yes, but even when anime was rising in popularity in the very early 2000's, the industry was already moving to cut expenses and 'risk'; biggest example in my mind is the fact that in the early 2000's, the average anime had 26 episodes, and Bandai launched a 52-episode mecha anime(Gundam...

When I went deep into the anime hobby, in the late 90's, all or the absolute majority of credited names at the endings were Japanese. By the late 2000's, the animation sections were getting filled with South Korean names. Nowadays, you have Chinese names in a lot of animation credits. Eventually...