TOKYO -- Aina Sugisawa's story of getting her foot in the door of Japan's anime industry is one studios hope to replicate. After studying at an academy run by Tokyo-based TMS Entertainment, she went to work for the studio as a contract employee.
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Wanted: 30,000 animators. Japan's anime future at risk
Studios scramble amid 'acute shortage of animators, directors, production assistants'
Anime studios in Japan have started offering more opportunities and recognition to younger animators in an effort to prevent them from leaving the industry.
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