Currently, anime production has a high demand for releases due to the enormous number of people who consume them. However, producing a single seasonal anime today can cost millions of dollars.
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Many anime fans have probably wondered, "How much does it cost to produce an anime?" A new article from the Japanese magazine Weekly Toyo Keizai recently answered this question. According to the article, it takes 31.2 million yen (over $224,000) to make a typical 24-minute episode. Therefore, a seasonal anime (of 12 episodes) can cost over 374 million yen ($2.69 million).
Furthermore, the anime Jashin-chan Dropkick has already received crowdfunding, raising 30 million yen for each episode of its 4th season. In this sense, we have another source confirming the cost of anime production as described in the article. All anime fans who read the news were surprised by the cost.
Check the prices:
- Fee for using the original work – 200,000 yen.
- Configuration – 2,400,000 yen.
- Script – 250,000 yen.
- Drawing materials – 250,000 yen.
- Production cost – 1,800,000 yen.
- Management fee – 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 AMOUNT – 31,200,000 yen for the production of a single episode.
Did you imagine that producing an anime could be this expensive? Leave your comment below!
Source: Kudasai
