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Ie heard that Steam Boy was the most expensive movie. Dunno about individual episodes. Does Afro Samurai count? I heard that each installment cost the equivilant of million dollars (average weekly anime episode is somewhere in the neighborhood of one-hundred thousand bucks).
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I remember hearing somewhere that FLCL, though only six episodes long, was given a budget equivalent to a full 26 episode series. That may have been hyperbole though.
Oh, I should probably ask: when looking for the most expensive, are you talking about before or after adjusting for inflation?
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Giant Robo, maybe?
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If what I heard is correct, Karas cost over $ 50 M.
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And for good reasons, too:
Red Line probably had a really high budget as well, what with 7 years in the making.
edited 23rd Dec '11 5:00:01 AM by Demongodofchaos2
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Does the Anime.Iron Man commercial count?
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Just checked The Other Wiki about the subject. They seem to indicate that Ponyo is the most expensive anime film ever with a total budget of 34 million dollars. As seen on the subject of the most expensive non-English language films
. I however would not know for individual anime series.
Higher budgets do not equal a better looking anime. In fact, while Kyoto Animation is known for their high quality work, their staff have said that their budgets are no bigger than other anime studios. While money is an important part of an animation production (need to pay for those papers and pencils after all), it all comes down to the people working on it.
edited 8th Jul '15 5:09:43 PM by DS9guy
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Kyo Ani's quality has more to do with the fact that they have a consistent staff, doesn't it?
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Probably and it would support what I said before.
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Yes, add to that an actually humane and employee-friendly schedules. Also, using non-popular V As saves them a lot of money.
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a lot of the problem in anime usually has to do with the schedule moreso than the money, apparently. plus there are only so many skilled animators going around and they can't just animate everything. a lot of studios end up having to outsource material as well which just makes the quality even more lopsided/inconsistent.
edited 9th Jul '15 6:02:42 PM by wehrmacht
This has probably asked before, though.
I'm counting both TV and Movie separately.
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