Ishikawa on Twitter wrote that “since there is a lot of talk about the cost of animation production in Japan, I’m going to disclose our animation production cost.”
He went on to say that because the OVA was produced with funds from the March 2011 restoration budget “I thought we’d make it public.”
Shichigahama de Mitsuketa was released on March 10 and features the stories and voices of residents of the town of Shichigahama during the March 2011 earthquake.