‘Sakamoto Days’ gets new episodes while Netflix Anime Leisten unveils
During the weekend, Netflix made a big splash on Anime Expo and dropped new trailers, clips and images from the Anime -Line -Up, including “Sakamoto Days”, “My Melody & Kuromi” and “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.”
The anime -push of the streaming giant comes when the genre reaches unprecedented heights on the platform, with more than 50% of the Netflix audience -who represent more than 150 million households or more than 300 million people -now watch anime content, according to Netflix. The company says it is aimed at delivering different stories and genres to serve everyone “from a curious newcomer to a lifelong anime superfan.”
Netflix’s dominance in the anime space was recently confirmed by a new Dentsu study unveiled by Variety This thought that 48% of global anime viewers subscribe to Netflix for such a programming, considerable for Disney+ on 32% and Prime video with 29%. The study investigated 8,600 consumers in 10 countries and discovered that 31% of global consumers view anime at least once a week.
That variety is clear in the reach of titles that this year landed in the worldwide top 10 list of Netflix, including ‘Sakamoto Days’, ‘My Happy Marriage’ and ‘The Apothecary Diaries’.
Leading the indictment is ‘Sakamoto Days’, who follows the former legendary Hitman Taro Sakamoto who withdrew for love but has to fight to protect his family when his past appears again. The series dominated the global top 10 for 10 weeks and appeared in 54 countries, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, France and Argentina. New episodes fall weekly from July 14.
“My Melody & Kuromi”, with beloved Sanrio characters, presents an original stop-motion story in which the iconic duo is confronted with a great incident that threatens their home from Mariland. The series will premiere on July 24.
“Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” returns to the corrupt, cybernetic implant-through-set dystopia, where a talented but reckless street child wants to become a mercenary outlaw edgerunner. The sequel to the 2022 series is based on the video game of CD Projekt Red “Cyberpunk 2077.”
Netflix also showed new assets from other upcoming anime titles, including “Record of Ragnarok III”, “Beastars Final Season” and “The fragrant flower flowering with dignity.”
The figures behind the Anime explosion of Netflix are amazing. In 2024 alone, Anime was viewed more than 1 billion times on the platform, with viewers tripling in the last five years, Netflix said. The year marked a record-breaking milestone with 33 anime titles that appeared in the top 10-list-more than double the number from 2021.
The global reach of Netflix has proved to be crucial for the expansion of anime. New anime titles launch at the same time in 190 countries with dubbed audio and audio descriptions in a maximum of 33 languages. The strategy works: 80-90% of members look at anime, according to Netflix.
The Anime -Lei comprises several genres, of action/adventurous hits such as “My Hero Academia”, “Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Daen”, “Jujutsu Kaisen” and “Spy x Family” to Fantasy/Isekai inputs such as “Delicious in Dungeon.” SCI-FI offers include “Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance” and “Terminator Zero”, while Vecht fans get “Baki Hanma x Kening Ashura” and Romance/Slice-of Life enthusiasts have “Ranma ½” and “Pokémon Concierge.”
