Streaming giant Netflix says >that Japanese style animation, better known as “anime,” is becoming a common global currency. And that it intends to produce more of it.
>The company said that over 100 million households globally watched at least one anime title on the platform between October last year and September 2020, and that figure represents an increase of more than 50% on 2019.
>Anime titles appeared in top ten lists in almost 100 countries so far this year. Its Seven Deadly Sins became one of the top 10 titles among all series and films in over 70 countries since its launch, and that Baki did the same in almost 50 countries.
>The company Tuesday announced five additional projects, making a total of 16 in the pipeline for future release: “Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure”; “Thermae Romae Novae”; “High-Rise Invasion”; “Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan”; and “The Way of the Househusband.”
>The five new original projects and 11 previously announced ones were presented to fans in a live-streaming event. The event was also used to unveil the Anand varna as the winner of Netflix’s second Gobelins Fellowship student award in partnership with the French Gobelins institution
Brayden Bailey
but netflix is dying?
Juan Cooper
>“Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure” is a stop motion series that follow the adventures of Rilakkuma and friends. Direction is by Kobayashi Masahito, with production by Dwarf Studios, TYO, and San-X.
>The popular time travel manga series “Thermae Romae” by Mari Yamazaki, which has already spawned two live-action feature films, gets another spin. Animation production is by NAZ.
>“High-Rise Invasion” is a frightening survival story based on the manga by Miura Tsuina (“Ajin”) and Takahiro Oba (“Box!”). The protagonist decides to survive in order to destroy the illogical world and kill the enemy wearing the “mask”, but what will she do? Production is significantly advanced – under director Masahiro Takata, character designer and animation director Ueda Yoichi – at production house ZERO-G, ahead of an early 2021 launch.
>“Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan” consists of four episodes that Kishibe Rohan, the manga artist from “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable,” saw and heard as he traveled to collect material for the manga. It is based on a story by Hirohiko Araki for Shueisha Jump Comics and is directed by Toshiyuki Kato. Animation is by David Production.
Oliver Butler
>Based on a story by Kosuke Oono, about a notorious yakuza gangster who decided to change his ways completely, “The Way of the Househusband” series is set for a 2021 release. It is directed by Kon Chiaki (“Nodame Cantabile,” “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie”) and produced at J.C. Staff.
can any mention of netflix be auto-deleted? I'm convinced that these people are being paid to post this shit.
Noah Wilson
To be fair, anime is the one aspect Netflix has an edge over Disney+ since there is no way Disney will pick up anime titles for their streaming services unless it's one of their own properties.
Grayson Wright
In what world
Kevin Carter
But netflix it's a important distributor of anime, so
>since there is no way Disney will pick up anime titles for their streaming services unless it's one of their own properties. They're slowly dabbling into it through Disney Japan, there's that Disney bishounen mobage that's pretty popular right now.
You really can't as they keep growing their catalog, at this point it's a major distribution compared with the Japanese ones.
Leo Cook
I wish anime was still niche.
Luis Martinez
>Japanese style animation, better known as “anime,” It's like we're in 1995.
Logan Miller
Is this our fault?
Matthew Bennett
didn't gatekeep hard enough
Jason Gray
You don't get their point, when you say it's "Japanese style animation" instead of "Japanese animation", you can sell western shit that uses the style as anime.
Angel Phillips
>adapting Part 4 fanfic tier garbage instead of Stone Ocean and thus getting closer to a Steel Ball Run anime Fucking DavidPro
Yeah, because adapting a few episodes of OVA is the same as planning a 39 episode series.
Colton Nelson
What makes you come to that question?
Colton Russell
oh dear God no
Luke Cook
>Hating on thus spoke It's pure unfiltered Araki with no restrictions, how can you be so contrarian? Do you really want the Anime onlys to ruin part 7 that fast?
Japanese workers are poorly paid in most industries. In fact only the anglosphere has equally as bad hours and pay as some east asian countries.
Aiden Price
It's very relevant news to anime production. Maybe you can argue for dubs because that's not necessarily new information worth discussing on Zig Forums, but Netflix is actively funding new animation series.
Henry Gray
I've yet to see a single good netflix funded anime. Everything that's worth sitting through in their catalogue had zero influence from them.
>Disney bishounen mobage I really hate this timeline.
Jordan Anderson
Not anime or manga
Eli Richardson
Thanks for reminding me that I gotta bust some nuts to Haruka before November
Juan Hernandez
>Netflix saves anime >Chrunchyshit fumbles with Korean shit and tumblr wannabe anime cartoons Both are equally shit but I do fine it pretty damn hilarious that a service built on anime is failing at it.
