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>>74879 Comparing anything directly between US and Japanese entertainment industry isn't terribly helpful, because everything in the entertainment industry costs much more in the US due to all kinds of factors. Live action/animated TV tends to be more expensive, movies tend to be much, much more expensive, and so on. Some western animation, especially those with big names attached to them, cost at or about a million per episode. This is because ridonculous producer and actor salaries play directly into the production cost, just as they do in live-action. If you have one motherhooligan pulling down 15 million per season, that's going to have a serious dent on the bottom line, but it doesn't make anything inherently more expensive. Live-action is obviously chock-full with actors who tend to pull down big salaries, and the budget is largely up to them. At the network level even the people around the major actors tend to pull down pretty ballza livings. In Japan everyone but the biggest name makes modest middle-class livings or below, and even the biggest names don't make the same sheer amount as they do here. Think of it this way: if I wanted to go out and make some kind of zero-budget 15-minute shit indie film with two friends, I would just be able to take a camera into a scenic part of town and try to do a scene from Always Sunny. I could do it in an afternoon and probably cut it together in Premiere before midnight. Compare that to me making something similarly shitty and cheap in Flash (or whatever the fuck kids are using today), it would take days to complete 15 minutes of fully-voiced animation, and that's using the easiest, cheapest techniques. I guess it's most accurate to say that animation is simply harder and requires more manpower than live-action, whether or not it's more expensive is something that does rely on many different factors.
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