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$20K Per Episode Average For TV Series Licenses
Date: 2/2/2007
According to info out of the recently held Nikkei BP Anime Business Forum in Japan, if you happen to be in the market to localize and distribute your own anime TV series in the USA in 2007, look to spend about $20,000 per episode on average. That baseline figure has grown over the years. Before 1995 you could get even a hit show for a couple thousand dollars per episode. The trend supposedly pierced the $10K per episode milestone in the mid 1990's with Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion. Pokemon fetched 40K per episode in the late 90's and in recent years, some of the most popular anime TV properties have fetched $80K or more depending on the contract. On the production side, a figure of 7 million-8 million Yen per episode was quoted for a long time from the 1980's until around the middle of the 1990's. Fom that time period until now, studios can ask anywhere from 10 million-13 million Yen to produce a typical TV series anime episode.
Source: Anime News Service