I just checked how much an anime episode costs on average and it turns out you can get a good quality episode for around $100k. I also checked how much money Eromancer has made over the past 6 years on Pure Onyx and was stunned to find out that the amount between Oct 2018 and Jan 2024 just from Patreon ALONE is approximately
$700k (they also got a good chunk of money every month from Subscribestar for a long time before their Patreon got banned + some money from itch.io).
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So it turns out they could have actually funded a decently-sized anime series with the amount of money they made lol.
Instead we got what's soon to be a 1-million dollar tech-demo with some pretty hentai scenes sprinkled around.