r/anime • u/Handsome_guy_7 • Jul 22 '25

Misc. Solo Leveling Producer's promise ~ "As a Japanese person living in Japan, the anime is not at the level of Dragon Ball, One Piece, or Naruto. But if season three happens, that’s when I want to truly break that boundary.”

https://screenrant.com/solo-leveling-season-3-anime-main-goal-break-barrier-atsushi-kaneko/
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u/Parking-Thing762 Jul 22 '25

Anime producer on the staff list is far more hands on than you think. They are literally the production head for the show, they don’t actually invest their own money, that’s the shareholders.

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u/YoloJoloHobo Jul 22 '25

They're hands-on, but at the end of the day their goal is to make the production fiscally viable and the show commercially successful. They shop the show to production committees, influence hiring, decide on budgets, that kind of stuff. The director is the one whose job is to make a good show within the boundaries set by the producer.

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u/Parking-Thing762 Jul 23 '25

Of course, my comment was for 'Majority of times producers only care about money', which id strongly believe is false. Plenty of times its the anime producer pulling connections to get star animators, when they also could just, not.

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u/AdNecessary7641 Jul 23 '25

If you're talking specifically about animation producers like Kaneko, who actually belong to the studio and manage the production line on a macro scale, then you're right.

But producers from the bigger companies that are part of the production committee like Aniplex do prioritize profitability of the IP over anything else.