>>93170317>>93170502Movie or show is irrelevant. We should consider cost per minute.
Rick and Morty costs $1~1.5 million per 22-minutes episode. The Boy and the Beast is 120 minutes. There doesn't seem to be any budget info on it, but most anime movies not made by Ghibli have a budget below $5 million.
On a per-minute basis, it's quite possible The Boy and the Beast is cheaper. But we should also be mindful of how budgets are distributed. US voice actors, writers, and producers get a disproportionately large piece of the pie.
That said, if I were someone with money and I wanted animation done, and style, tax rebates, and language barriers were non-existent, I'd still go with the Japanese animators.
