MAPPA CHANNEL

MAPPA CHANNEL (株式会社MAPPA, Kabushiki-gaisha MAPPA) is the official YouTube channel of Japanese animation studio STUDIO MAPPA.
==Content==
Their first video was a test animation, and the earliest videos on the channel were of the crew showcasing behind-the-scenes work, interviews with staff, and anime clips. They would also post advertisements and previews of their intellectual properties. Around 2020, the channel began uploading PVs and trailers of their upcoming or trending anime, namely Chainsaw Man and Takt Op Destiny. The first trailer of the latter is their most viewed video.
==History==
The studio was founded on June 14, 2011, by film producer and former Madhouse co-founder and producer Masao Maruyama (born: ) to produce In This Corner of the World. In 2016, Maruyama would retire as the company's CEO and representative director in order to become a chairman, partially due to his old age (being 70 when he founded the company) and was succeeded by Manabu Otsuka.
The studio has gone on to work with Shinichiro Watanabe (of Cowboy Bebop fame). In late 2020, the studio became the center of positive attention due to stepping up to animate the final season of Attack on Titan, after the original studio behind it, Studio Wit, announced they couldn't do it due to time constraints. 
==Partnerships==
On October 23, 2020, Netflix signed a deal with four major anime studios, including MAPPAhttps://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflix-signs-new-partner-deal-with-four-anime-studios/.
== Controversy ==
=== Working conditions ===
On May 19, 2019, an animator known as "Mushiyo" detailed how he, and his colleagues, were maltreated by the studio's higher-ups, describing the working conditions "like a factory". According to him, despite the back-breaking schedule, they weren't allowed to draw and weren't trained which led to an exodus of 50% of employees leaving the company. Meanwhile 80% reported the same problem. MAPPA denied this in their response,https://comicbook.com/anime/news/mappa-studio-work-conditions-response-controversy/ but then later unintentionally corroborated them by posting advertisements for new employees needed due to lack of staff.https://comicbook.com/anime/news/mappa-studio-anime-work-condition-bad/
The studio was also critisized for paying their animators $34 per cuthttps://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/animators-paid-a-mere-34-cut-on-mappa-anime-show-for-netflix-says-animator-206690.html. They also paid another animator $2 for in-between animation for a film projecthttps://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-07-02/animator-ippei-ichii-says-netflix-anime-produced-at-mappa-paid-bottom-rates/.174701.
=== Abuse ===
Staff of MAPPA have also reported receiving abuse from employers, and a director was the victim of hateful messages and targeted harassment due to not playing a certain soundtrackhttps://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/nehrw0/a_mappa_animator_who_worked_on_attack_on_titan_s4/.
=== Troubled production ===
The studio was also critisized due to its rushed schedule, forcing its employees to work on four projects at one time.https://www.epicdope.com/animator-mushiyo-reveals-mappas-hellish-working-conditions/
==Trivia==
*"MAPPA" is an acronym for Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association.
*Former animator The Canipa Effect dubbed them "The next Studio Madhouse".
==References==
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