Currently, anime production is experiencing a high demand for releases due to the sheer number of viewers. However, producing a single season of anime can cost millions of dollars.
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Many otakus have probably wondered, "How much does it cost to produce an anime?" A new article in the Japanese magazine Weekly Toyo Keizai recently revealed this question. According to the article, it takes 31.2 million yen (over $224,000 ) to make a standard 24-minute episode. So a seasonal anime (12 episodes) can cost over 374 million yen ( $2.69 million ).
Furthermore, the anime Jashin-chan Dropkick has already received a fundraising effort, raising 30 million yen for each episode of its fourth season. In this sense, we have another source that confirms the cost of the anime portrayed in the article. All anime fans who read the news were surprised by the cost.
Check out the values:
- Fee for using the original work – 200,000 yen.
- Configurations – 2,400,000 yen.
- Script – 250,000 yen.
- Drawing materials – 250,000 yen.
- Production cost – 1,800,000 yen.
- Direction – 3,000,000 yen.
- Animation Direction – 3,000,000 yen.
- Production process – 1,500,000 yen.
- Frame rate (including layouts) – 6,000,000 yen.
- Animation Fee – 1,200,000 yen.
- Scenery, background design – 2,000,000 yen.
- Costs for CG Animation (including 3D layouts) – 2,000,000 yen.
- Coloring fee – 900,000 yen.
- Photography – 1,000,000 yen.
- Editing (including video editing fee) – 400,000 yen.
- Production materials – 300,000 yen.
- Audio editing – 2,000,000 yen.
- Administrative Expenses – 3,000,000 yen.
- TOTAL SUM – 31,200,000 yen for the production of a single episode.
Did you ever imagine anime production could be this expensive? Leave your comment below!
Source: Kudasai
