Of course, compared with CNNAD's two seasons, which ran for more than forty episodes each, an investment of a hundred million wasn't much.
But compared with the countless industry anime whose average production budget per episode was only seven or eight hundred thousand Dragon Country Currency, this investment was... absurdly huge. The average cost per episode was two million!
For a major company, a production with this kind of budget would be acceptable. But for a company on GT Animation Company's level... it was simply too much!
After all, this was a romance. It wasn't like Fate. Whether it was the animation or anything else, the demands certainly wouldn't be as high. There wouldn't be a minute of high-quality fighting that ate up half an episode's budget. With this level of funding, the finished anime would basically reach a very high standard—and its overall quality would be high, not just one episode or one section of the story...
After all, Dragon Country Currency in this world had a lot of purchasing power. The country was strong, so naturally its currency was strong too!
With this kind of investment, the infamous Naruto-style off-model faces from the Parallel World could basically be avoided. Although the anime was famous in the Parallel World, its production budget had actually been only eight or nine million yen per episode, equivalent to just six or seven hundred thousand RMB. Some of the animation could only be described as... hard to put into words!
There also wouldn't be those cost-saving shots where only the main character moved while everyone in the background stayed frozen. A gust of wind would blow, and only the heroine's long hair would flutter; not even the hems of anyone else's clothes would move...
Of course, with animation, if you wanted to pour