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Netflix to Produce 30 'New' Anime Series for 2018 Release

My time has come... *cue epic music*

When I said sooner or later Western media companies would start muscling in on the anime industry, they said I was crazy. That will never happen!! Anime is only for Japanese!! It's not anime if it's not purely produced for the local Japanese dude! Anime will never change and we want it to stay the same forever!!

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I'm curious as to why the ANN headline chose to put New in single quotation marks. Generally, that's a typographical convention to convey skepticism. In any case, it's an impressive goal. Netflix figured out long ago that the real money is in owning its own content as opposed to licensing from others. I see this as a good thing for the anime industry. I wonder if Amazon will start following suit? We know Crunchyroll already is, but they simply don't have the same size piggy bank as the Giants.

I highly doubt Netflix is going to own any of the said 30 new anime series. What Netflix is really interested is in having exclusive rights to anything they stream.

No, they will own these shows. That means the licenses for them won't lapse like a usual Netflix acquisition. The reason Netflix is going the original content route is that it started to be clear it was going to be harder and harder for them to acquire worthwhile titles because a lot of entities that have the kind of back titles that Netflix would want are looking at other streaming options, including setting up their own platforms. Netflix could see where that was headed.

They will "own" as in the Japanese studio producing said anime will assign all relevant copyright rights over to Netflix as part of the arrangement for Netflix paying them to produce it, with some residuals likely in place to compensate the original mangaka in perpetuity.

Netflix has never been profitable.

fudge Netflix

Simulcast shows properly or GTFO

Some people's only real hobby is anime. So we have all the time in the world to watch anime and forcing us to wait is outright awful. Especially when we KNOW it's airing in Japan.... Not to mention the fact that, because people watch it in Japan, spoilers and such are all over the internet. And when you're deep in the fandom, you often times have to watch everything ASAP just to avoid spoilers. For me, it's harder to avoid anime spoilers than it is to avoid Game of Thrones spoilers. And Game of Throne spoilers apparently trend on Youtube.

I just binged watched season 4 of Netflix's Voltron (all 6 episodes of it). I can barely keep track of what happened in which episode, and I know I missed details because I just wanted to watch it as fast as possible to avoid any big spoilers on Twitter. It's a sucky way to watch TV, IMHO.

Especially since I like being able to comment on shows here at ANN as they simulcast. I haven't been able to participate in the Fate/Apocrypha discussion thread due to having to wait on Netflix's schedule.