How many hours a month do anime artists work in Japan? Survey finds crazy number, unhappy workers

By this point, it’s become pretty common knowledge that people in the anime industry work incredibly long hours.
That’s a reputation the industry has even in Japan, a country that’s already famous for overworking itself.
312 provided information about their working hours, and the average was 230 hours a month.
Assuming a 20-day work month, that calculates out to a grueling 11.5 hours a day.
Even if incremental improvements are being made, though, the anime industry is still a very tough way to make a living, and likely will continue to be so for some time to come.