I think the ACG industry in Japan is a sweatshop, so why are so many young people willing to enter? Apart from their own interests, there is also the fact that this industry is really profitable. Once you become famous, you will have money when you lie down. So let's talk about the income of several Japanese cartoonists today.

There is a variety show "ニノさん" in Japan, which exposes the income and remuneration of newcomers from all walks of life, and there is also an episode about cartoonists. Professional cartoonist Gu Fei Keisuke was interviewed before. He worked as an assistant for many years before he had the opportunity to serialize his own cartoons on 20 1 1.

Different from working as an assistant, an assistant spends an hour 1000 yen, while the publisher quotes a painting 1000 yen, which is about 17 yen a week. This seems good, but in fact, in order to hand in the manuscript before the deadline, he even invited five assistants to help at home at a time. Sometimes the weekly manuscript fee is 1.7 million yen, and the payment assistant needs 240,000 yen. In addition, other materials, water and electricity rents have to be paid by themselves. Simply relying on the publishing house's manuscript fee is completely a loss-making behavior.

Then he lost money happily, and then he said the key. The key to survival is: royalties.

Cartoonists can probably take 10% of the selling price of a single book as royalty income, which means that each comic book worth 1000 yen can earn 100 yen, which is of course before tax. For example, when Togashi Yoshihiro serialized Long Bai Shu before, he set a record of 76th Japanese taxpayer. Even now, Togashi Yoshihiro closes the door every day, and money keeps rolling in while lying at home. All the above are personal opinions.

Toriyama Akira, the author of Dragon Ball, collected 500 million royalties on 1983, and now it is about 6 billion. Eiichiro Oda, the author of One Piece, earns even more. He sold 350 million copies a few years ago, and now there are more. Not counting the income from other surrounding areas and copyrights, according to the statistics of netizens, Oda can earn billions of yen even if it stops publishing for one year.

So! It's really amazing, but how many people can really become cartoonists? There are still many people in Japan who have been working as assistants for 10 thousand years in order to serialize their cartoons one day. All the above are personal opinions.