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Originally Posted by Cookie-Monster
Does anyone actually watch filler material? Maybe very young kids, but Id be interested in knowing what % of their total viewership actually watch fillers.
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Japanese TV ratings for filler episodes are pretty much the same as canon episodes. People watch regardless.
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Originally Posted by Cookie-Monster
I read somewhere that it costs about $180,000 to produce a single high quality anime episode. How much does a filler episode cost to produce?
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Filler episodes are done by the same exact people that work on canon episodes. They don't call in cheaper staff to work on filler episodes, they have a certain number of directors, animation directors, animators and other staff that alternates on episodes regardless of what the content of those episodes is (as you can see from
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Canon arcs do get higher quality episodes from time to time, but those episodes are generally done by guests animators that have been asked to work on those episodes exactly because they are so good. The people that work on the average episodes (whether canon or filler) are always the same.