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Mar 23, 2010 12:21

Hmm, just looking at a recent thread in the Slayers community, I've started to think about the production costs for anime series. I'm gonna look at the production values in Japan and then the licensing/distrubution costs for American companies.

Japanese CostsFirst, most places online seem to say that the average cost for producing one episode of ( Read more... )

anime, production costs, rambly

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Re: NUMBERS urufudo March 23 2010, 16:54:32 UTC

The thing is, is that FUNimation makes a profit every year. Even when their sales go down due to things like the recession, they still met their sales quotas. So I find it extremely hard to believe that every single series would cost $1.3 million to license. It just doesn't make sense. And it's nearly impossible to find out how many copies of a series they sell in total here. So there's no way to really come up with a figure ( ... )

commanderteddog March 23 2010, 17:40:11 UTC

I'd be curious as to what the current costs are for a series. 2005 was during the end of the anime bubble and I recall talk about the Japanese end of things overvaluing series. Also, there's been a catastrophic financial crash between then and now ( ... )

commanderteddog March 23 2010, 17:53:38 UTC

Further, one thought...

Point here is that by our standards, $5 million is not a lot of money.

$5 million is not a lot of money in the context of big Hollywood business. That was for a pilot of a major television series that was intended to be a dominating media force by the people with the biggest pockets in the world's media.

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commanderteddog March 23 2010, 18:45:36 UTC

The high costs of cult series (which anime is) on DVD isn't a problem unique to anime. I'm not saying that there's not price gouging, but on the other hand? Media outside of the mainstream always has a higher price that's often attributed to not being able to move as many units as something in the mainstream. Is that the truth? Damned if I know.

I'm a Mystery Science Theater fan, a series with a relatively small market. $50 gets me four 90 minute episodes. This is an improvement over the $70 I was paying for four episodes on DVD about five years ago and the $30 I was paying for a single episode on VHS in the late 1990s. I also remember when Red Dwarf DVDs were $40 for a season of six episodes. Don't get me started on Doctor Who DVDs, either.

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