Anime is not expensive to produce for what it is. It's amazing how much smaller the budgets for anime are compared to universally awful looking and poorly anima

Anime is not expensive to produce for what it is. It's amazing how much smaller the budgets for anime are compared to universally awful looking and poorly animated Western shows. The main problem is that the amount of anime that can be produced at one time just isn't that much, because there's only so many studios to do it. And the best studio of all Kyoto Animation hasn't recovered from most of their staff literally being killed by a terrorist attack a few years ago. (Sometimes Western animation tries to make fake anime; there's a Superman TV show that just started. They are somehow completely unable to do this. It's worse than what Japanese children could do.)