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On Wikipedia there are two lists about [box office
bombs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_box_office_bombs) and [highest-
grossing films](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films).
On nearly every movie page on Wikipedia, there are two values: _budget_ and
_box office_ , showing how much a film costs and how much it yields.

Is there something like this for anime, considering home videos, worldwide
licenses and/or merchandising?


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anime-production resources
Are anime budget and worldwide gross data publicly available?


I doubt that the budgets are available for every series. Studios rarely have
any incentive to release these numbers, and it could make fans angry if they
think the studio isn't giving their favorite series a big enough budget.

I was able to find some information. A single episode of anime generally costs
around 10 million yen (see [here](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-
news/2011/10/30-1/how-much-does-one-episode-of-anime-cost-to-make) or
[here](http://www.kajisoku-f-2.com/dd/img2-03/img1156_w02.jpg), roughly
$115,000 USD), though the exact number varies depending on production quality,
voice actors, licensing fees, and other factors. The best I've been able to
find is [this](http://alfalfa.livedoor.biz/archives/50621035.html), which
really only has a few anime series from 2005 and earlier, and also includes a
lot of western animation.

As a note, sales figues, unlike production figures, are widely reported. [This
forum thread](http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showthread.php?t=111958) has a lot of
data related to that. This gives a sort of upper bound on the production
costs, but it's not usually very accurate. For instance, the first season of
Fate/Zero sold 52,133 bluray boxes at 39,900 yen each (roughly $496 USD), so
the total revenue is about 2 billion yen, which for a 13 episode show
corresponds to 160 million yen per episode. That's certainly way more than
they actually spent.


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Logan M's answer covers most of the points. But you're unlikely to find
numbers like this easily available because studios _really_ like to keep these
things under wraps and in-house. A recent article on ANN about [licensing
anime](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-06-11) mentions how even
in these contracts, costs are entirely covered in non-disclosure, so not even
U.S. licensors are allowed to talk about how much they spent on a particular
title.

There are cases where a gross or profit margins are published, or even
production costs. But it seems mostly with titles that are screened in
theatres (e.g. movies) where box office stats are tracked by multiple sources,
and less likely with a TV series or OVA.


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