NOTICE - PROOF and What you can do!
I’ve made an thread of screenshots and images to illustrate the connection between Amimaru and the outrage from professional manga letterers. This is proof enough for me withhold my patronage to these horrible companies. Link: https://imgur.com/a/qmByl5h
The link below shows proof of Amimaru’s horrible pay rate. (Provided to me by a friend whose friend applied to Amimaru)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Link: https://imgur.com/a/26MXGRD Please note the email address and how much work is included in that wage.
Below each photo is a description of what’s in it.
Needless to say, it makes me sick.
It’s also come to my attention that Renta and Coolmic and Kodansha contracts with Amimaru, too.
Here’s a link to a JP press release from Renta’s parent company where they commenced working with Amimaru: https://www.papy.co.jp/info/index.php?page=/release/131107.htm
I encourage all of you to reblog this if you care about the pay of workers (either here or on other sites like twitter!) and here’s just a few ideas of what you can do to help fix this issue.
Ways you can make a difference:
-Post your outrage on all your social media (twitter, discord, instagram, tumblr, facebook, youtube, anywhere!)
-Tag these companies, tag anime fan/review sites, tag anyone and get the word out so consumers can make an informed choice when buying BL from companies that don’t pay workers fairly -Show your support to professional translators/letterers/cleaners on social media -Most importantly, don’t patronize companies that support these horrible standards until they make a change and announce it publicly. (companies using Amimaru like Futekiya, their sister site MangaPlanet, their parent company Fantasista Inc, Renta, Coolmic etc)
I love BL, I have for 20 years of my life. But as a person in the LGBT community and the BL community, I’m appalled and saddened and furious at all this.
Like I said, I love BL, but I don’t want it if it’s coming at the expense of people. And this doesn’t stop at BL either, Amimaru has worked on popular titles such as Cells at Work from Kodansha Comics. This is systemic and needs to stop NOW.
Please feel free to reblog all my posts about this and I’ll do my best to keep everyone updated with info i receive.
