Since they were still university students creating amateur animation films, their budget was very limited, somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 yen. So when Bandai proposed a budget that was 100 times more than what they used to use, they thought that they could do anything that they imagined. At that time I was already working as a professional, so I realized that their proposal wouldn’t fit into the budget proposed by Bandai. So I changed the numbers, we negotiated with Bandai and the production budget turned into 360 million yen. That negotiation eventually led to the development of Gainax. To make Bandai feel comfortable, I organized lots of experienced staff members around the amateurs.