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Arcane Is The Most Expensive Cartoon Ever Made

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The second season of Arcane is just two days away! All signs point to the back half Netflix and Riot Games’ League Of Legends adaption to be just as thrilling, engaging and pretty as the first half. It all not only looks expensive, it IS expensive.

Arcane has some of the best-looking CGI animation in the business and it did not come cheap. According to a new article published in Variety, when you put the two seasons together and factor in marketing expenses, the whole thing cost $250 for just 18 episodes, making Arcane the most costly television cartoon ever.

“We were never intending to operate like a traditional studio with traditional timelines,” says Riot co-founder Marc Merrill. “What did change as we learned more was our expectations of ourselves: We realized that getting it right takes a lot more time than we’d originally expected, and so we re calibrated our development, output goals and teams with that in mind.”

In the second season of Arcane, the war between the under-city of Zaun and the over-city of Piltover has erupted. At the center of it all are Jinx, the rocket-launching maniac who ignited the conflict and has now become the symbol of the resistance, and her sister Vi, who’s leading the opposing charge to stop her.

It’s not the expense that cut Arcane off at two seasons, it’s just how long the story they wanted to tell turned out. “Since we started working on this project, we had a very specific ending in mind, which means the story of Arcane wraps up with this second season,” series co-creator Christian Linke is quoted as saying.

But that doesn’t mean the end of League of Legends on television. A new series is currently in the works, which hopefully won’t take three years to complete.

Arcane: League Of Legends returns with its first three episodes November 9 on Netflix. The next three will appear one week later on November 16, and the final three will arrive as a Thanksgiving treat November 23.

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