>most
Good anime
>least
Crappy generic knockoff anime made by korean sweatshop workers

Aside from movies, action shows like SnK, One Punch Man, Kimetsu, Jujutsu, etc seem to have pretty high budgets. Chainsaw Man will likely fall into this category as well. The cheapest are probably SoL where not much stuff happens as there isn't much to animate in them.

Hard to say these days with the prevalence of 3D shortcuts. Well, I guess you could say action stuff without 3D? Well, but then there's stuff like Akebi that had a lot of nice animation to it, so that might be costly, too.
Recently the Priconne stuff seems like it'd be quite expensive, something feasible with gacha money I suppose.

>>88827
Akebi is different from other SoL because it has dance and sports scenes. It is well animated in that regard indeed.

>>88826
I don't think you know what you're talking about with SoL, most of the good ones that I've seen have all been accompanied by good animation focusing more on the subtle movements of characters or emphasizing smaller things in detail. The point of them isn't to have something crappy carried by the writing only, but to have a nice thing to look at for 30 minutes and relax to. The most abhorrently cheap quality anime I've seen have mostly, recently, been isekai harems.

>>88847
I was talking about it in general. Anything that has a focus on characters talking and living easy lives is not going to be animated as much as action-focused stuff. Obviously, there are some exceptions like Akebi, but something like Hidamari which is what OP posted or Joshiraku which jokes about it doesn't have much animation in comparison to the stuff I mentioned.

Aria is one of my favorite shows by the way. I don't mean this in a bad way.

Kill Me Baby looked really cheap at times and I think that enhanced the humour.

>>88824
I love the first season of Hidamari Sketch (good anime) and that was made on a shoestring budget.

>>88852
Well... Maybe it was made on a shoestring budget, but Hidamari had prime SHAFT behind it so that probably made up the difference.

hentai has a huge range of possible budgets while also being potentially very complicated to animate. Unfortunately it's often the least effort thing

>>88939
I have noticed far, far less image maniuplation shit than in the mid-2010s

>>88939
Hentai may sometimes be more of a passion project