No pay, which is the situation a number of people who were contracted by Tokyo-based anime studio Tear Studio are looking at.
In the anime industry, the hours are long and the pay is low.
For a quick crash course in how the anime business works, the studio that animates an anime doesn’t necessarily own the finished product.
Production committee for Fragtime, studio’s most recent anime that’s playing in theaters right now, say their repeated attempts to communicate have yielded no response.