1年前のこのTweetですが、最近は1本2,000万円位が相場になってきています。海外配信サイトが高額購入する際に原作・スタジオ・クリエイターの人気を重視している為こぞって人気スタジオに発注が集中しているからです。更にスタジオ側も印税の主張が通りやすくなっている傾向にあります。続く https://t.co/DJAVEr9G7O

— エンタメ情報をつぶやく福原慶匡（8millionの代表） (@fukuhara_ystd) August 22, 2020

“This Tweet is from a year ago, but recently the market price for an anime episode has been around 20 million yen [$190,000]. This is because overseas distribution sites are focused on the popularity of the original work, the studio and the creator when they license the series at a high price, so a majority of the orders are concentrated on the more popular studios. Furthermore, the bigger studios tend to be able to claim royalties easily.

On the contrary, it is difficult for smaller studios to claim royalties. Overall budgets are increasing, but the royalties made through domestic broadcast TV licensing are changing and are gradually disappearing. The new idea is that once an original work has a proven track record, the studio will be able to claim royalties.

In order to achieve this, the trend in the future will be for production studios to not only produce works, but also to create a system that allows them to do their own copyright business, to merge or be acquired by a major company, or to work with a production company.  The number of original works is decreasing and it would be nice if there were more original anime created by studios.”

Does this mean that anime budgets will continue to increase? And what would that entail for workers in the industry, overseas licensors and fans? We’ll have to see what Yoshitada Fukuhara tweets next!

Previously: Trigger’s Kazuya Masumoto confronted the difficult realities of anime budgeting.

Source: Crunchyroll

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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, and its sequel, Manga Art for Intermediates, with professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.