I don’t know how true the $10m is, but I’ve seen the figure in quite a few websites.
For context, the average cost of a Demon Slayer episode is just around $80,000. If you double the runtime, you get $160,000 which is still way way below this probable budget of Invincible.
It feels like all the budget for Invincible went into it’s expensive voice cast list rather than the animation…
Personally I would rather have quality animation with a cheaper but good voice cast list…than celeb voice cast with 90’s animation
We also guessed wrongly. Because S1 was a risk, we excused the plain and cheap animation. But we all assumed “Okay, now S1 was a smash success. S2 will surely look much better with a bigger budget. A franchise is officially born”. Turns out that wasn’t the case. S2 often looks cheaper than S1!