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This Week in Anime - Are Any of Those Netflix Anime Actually Good?

The quality is all over the place. On the one hand, you have boring shows like Hero Mask, plagiaristic garbage like Cannon Busters, but then you get Aggretsuko, Baki, and Kengan Ashura, which are all wonderfully insane.

Polygon Pictures is the true criminal here if you ask me. They suck. Although judging by Netflix doing their damndest to circumvent the production committee system, I expect more anime in the vein of the latter. People want violence, and adult content, and all that fun stuff. Otherwise they would just watch American cartoons.

That last image crushed me. I was rooting for Cannon Busters, but all it has going for it, through the entire season, is its opening credits.

I can't say it failed as an anime, because it didn't even succeed as a story. How can you be anime when you're just...nothing?

"Maybe I'll give AICO and B The Beginning another shot," he sort of lied to himself.

OFFICIAL LIST OF GOOD NETFLIX ANIME, IN ORDER:

1. Little Witch Academia
2. Devilman Crybaby
3. Aggretsuko
4. Beastars
5. Violet Evergarden
6. Carol and Tuesday
7. Um....
8. Welp, that might be it, folks. See you in six months when BNA finally drops, I guess.

Whoa, when I brought up She-Ra, I didn’t expect to start a war!
I love Netflix’s She-Ra in every way, and I fully admit to being biased. But I suspect it—and Voltron before it, which I liked but certainly didn’t love—are popular shows because I personally have attended New York Comic Con panels filled with hundreds of fans screaming as if the writers and voice actors on stage were rock stars, as well as been in discussions with dozens of fellow fans online. I know these anecdotal measures aren’t the same as ratings, but Netflix doesn’t release *meaningful* viewer statistics. I think we can mostly agree that “subscribers checked out at least 2 minutes of this show!” isn’t meaningful. Toy sales aren’t a meaningful measure, either, because the primary audience for She-Ra and Voltron are older kids/tweens/teens/Young Adults, and they’re more likely to buy fanart than toys.

I am personally saddened to read that Mattel decided to separate He-Man/Masters of the Universe from Dreamworks’ She-Ra, whatever their reasons may be, because I think Dreamworks could’ve made a fantastic spin-off if they were given a chance. I’m not familiar enough with Kevin Smith’s work to speculate on how he will handle He-Man. As another poster said, I’m willing to check it out as long as it’s engaging and not done in cheap, stilted CG.

Agent355 wrote:

Whoa, when I brought up She-Ra, I didn’t expect to start a war! I love Netflix’s She-Ra in every way, and I fully admit to being biased. But I suspect it—and Voltron before it, which I liked but certainly didn’t love—are popular shows because I personally have attended New York Comic Con panels filled with hundreds of fans screaming as if the writers and voice actors on stage were rock stars, as well as been in discussions with dozens of fellow fans online. I know these anecdotal measures aren’t the same as ratings, but Netflix doesn’t release *meaningful* viewer statistics. I think we can mostly agree that “subscribers checked out at least 2 minutes of this show!” isn’t meaningful. Toy sales aren’t a meaningful measure, either, because the primary audience for She-Ra and Voltron are older kids/tweens/teens/Young Adults, and they’re more likely to buy fanart than toys. I am personally saddened to read that Mattel decided to separate He-Man/Masters of the Universe from Dreamworks’ She-Ra, whatever their reasons may be, because I think Dreamworks could’ve made a fantastic spin-off if they were given a chance. I’m not familiar enough with Kevin Smith’s work to speculate on how he will handle He-Man. As another poster said, I’m willing to check it out as long as it’s engaging and not done in cheap, stilted CG.

I’m going to say that’s a false equivalence, especially in Voltron’s case where the toy company in Playmates publicity said the toys flopped. And I have a response to that in Firefly/Serenity. Large fans at conventions, but the ratings were bleh and the film bombed at the box office. It’s the case of noise vs. amount. Sure, there are loud fans, but the casual audiences were not there.

I’d love World Events Productions to pull a stunt like Mattel did with Revelations, like making their own version of Voltron and getting someone like Masami Obari to do the mecha battles. But the legal situations are quite different.