Anime's Growth Collides With Labor, Financing, and AI Rights Pressures

New reporting places the 2024 anime market at roughly ¥3.8 trillion but emphasizes worker shortages, uneven wage gains, and uncertain benefits for freelancers and production staff. Kenjiro Tsuda's lawsuit against TikTok over unauthorized AI voice cloning remains a concrete test of voice performers' rights, while the Genco partnership with U.S. producers Spacemaker and Barravento illustrates expanding cross-border financing and co-production activity.