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On March 24, 2022, the first documentary in China showing the ecology of contemporary Chinese cartoonists was officially launched on major video platforms. This work, produced by Kuaikan and directed by the well-known documentary director Fan Jian, finally chose to use the title of "Comic Life" to tell the story of comics who rarely stand in the spotlight but always stick to it. After the

documentary "Comic Life" was broadcast, it has been on the hot topic of Weibo for two consecutive days, arousing heated discussion among netizens. Under the entry "How hard does the cartoonist behind Chinese comics work?", many comic practitioners and fans in the circle share their experiences and feelings with the public. Not only that, comic authors such as North Lane , Beikezi, Zuo Xiaoling also played the building activity of building a desk of the protagonist Qingqing in the film. Compared with many popular or mature tracks, Chinese comics are still a relatively immature industry. This immaturity is reflected in all aspects, and one of the very important ones is the difficult living conditions for practitioners.

Japan is the world's largest anime production and exporting country. Its animation and comics are both leading in the world. It has a complete animation industry chain, covers a wide range of topics, and its audience covers all age groups except the elderly. The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in 2020, and the Japanese animation industry will inevitably be affected. As the source of IP in the entire animation market,

comics directly determine the size of the market space of the entire animation industry. Under the influence of the development of the Internet, the Japanese paper comic publishing market has been in a relatively sluggish state in recent years, and the development of electronic comics is also difficult to make up for. The scale of the comics market has been declining continuously since 2014. In 2020, the popular comic "Demon Slayer: Blade" was sold well, and the Japanese government implemented home measures in many places due to the epidemic, these factors have pushed up the sales of comics. The Japanese comic market size reached 612.6 billion yen, setting a record since 1978, an increase of 23% over the previous year.

is contrary to the comic market. The latest data from the Japan Animation Association shows that in 2020, the volume of TV animation and theatrical animation production has declined due to the impact of the epidemic. In 2020, Japan produced a total of 278 TV animations, a year-on-year decrease of 7.95%, and the production time was 100,845 minutes, a year-on-year decrease of 5.72%. The number of animation productions and market declines in the theatrical version were more obvious. In 2020, a total of 66 theater animations were produced, a year-on-year decrease of 27.47%, and the production time was 4873 minutes, a year-on-year decrease of 34.06%. The size of the Japanese theater animation market has been on an overall upward trend since 2000. In 2020, the global theaters closed on a large scale under the epidemic situation, which brought a huge blow to the industry.

In fact, in the past decade, it is hard to say that the lives of Chinese comic writers have been smooth. Whether it is the high work intensity or the income difference with online writers, it has become an off-site interference factor. But even so, there are always some stubborn people in the industry who are continuing to seek growth and breakthroughs. This difficult industry background has given these contemporary comic writers who are still persisting in their relationship: they still have great creative enthusiasm and a childish heart for comics, which is not "popular" industry. This is also the main reason why director Fan Jian will shoot this documentary.

For the content industry, this kind of innocent heart when facing creation is extremely precious. After the trailer was released, comic author Zhu Gengfu commented: "Everyone who is still persisting in drawing comics is sticking to this passion for comics. As long as he can still hold the pen, he will continue to draw."After many years, taking advantage of the opportunity of documentaries, the Chinese comics group has finally entered the public's vision again. After experiencing the decline of the traditional magazine and comic era and the development and change of Internet comic platforms, each of them is facing different confusions, challenges and choices.

Overall, thanks to the significant increase in the market size of the comics industry, the market size of the Japanese animation industry reached 303.87 billion yen in 2020, an increase of 0.87% year-on-year. Although the increase is small, it can still remain strong in the overall environment of the impact of the epidemic and the overall damage of the entertainment industry, which shows that it has a high risk resistance. In the future, as the epidemic is gradually brought under control, the Japanese animation market will recover rapidly and the animation industry will develop better and faster.

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