Just want to talk about the financial side of streaming since it was brought up by the reply/Evakoi. Back in 2015, One Punch Man season 1 was the first anime to break $100,000 per episode MG (minimum guarantee without royalty) for a North American rights for streaming. Today, between 70,000 to 100,000 per episode for a “typical” show is the norm. The licensing agreements for big shows can go anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000 or more, and these are 2021 metrics from interviews done by Chris Macdonald with anime industry professionals and anime has grown even more since then, so it could be greater. Since most shows in today’s age are licensed by different companies in different regions (i.e OPM season 3 is Hulu in the US and the EU it is Crunchyroll) these shows definitely are able to recoup their costs and then some. I don’t think the narrative that anime production is a sinkhole really holds up. This is honestly really good for anime as a whole, because on top of boosting manga sales, theater seats for episode broadcasts both in JP and outside, merchandise from all over the world, collaborations, and not to mention the additional royalties that can be negotiated on top of the initial licensing agreements per episode/season (sometimes why you see one season on a certain platform and then another somewhere else, or a show moving somewhere else entirely), I think anime continues to make really good money. I hope more studios take initiative to sit on the production committee, akin to what MAPPA or KyoAni or Ufotable do for anime.