Currently, anime production has a great demand for releases due to the huge number of people who consume them. However, the production of a single season anime nowadays can cost millions of dollars.
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Probably many otakus have already wondered “how much does it cost to produce an anime?”, A new article by Japanese magazine Weekly Toyo Keizai has recently revealed this question. According to the article, it takes 31.2 million yen (over $ 224,000 ) to make a normal 24 -minute episode. So a season anime (12 episodes) can cost more than 374 million yen ( $ 2.69 million ).
Furthermore, the Jashin-chan Dropkick has already received a fundraiser, raising 30 million yen for each episode of its 4th season. In this sense, we have another source that confirms the cost value of the anime portrayed in the article. All anime fans, who read the news, were surprised at the cost of this.
Check the values:
- Fee for using the original work – 200,000 yen.
- Settings – 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 fee (including layouts) – 6,000,000 yen.
- Animation Fee – 1,200,000 yen.
- Sets, 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 imagine that producing an anime could be this expensive? Leave your comment below!
Source: Kudasai
