Is Netflix the future of Anime?

[Eisennagel]

 

Thoughtful commentary video by Tokyosaurus.

 

 

I would also add two other new factors involved.  The other factor is Amazon and the third factor is China.

 

Because Netflix doles out much bigger budgets for their produced anime, the quality of art and animation is better.  Animators, artists and writers are better paid and are more attracted to working with Netflix, than live with slave wages producing anime for Japanese TV.

 

Amazon is doing the same formula as Netflix, producing and financing their anime with bigger budgets.  

 

China is also financing anime too, some with local Chinese studios, others with collaboration with Japanese studios.  It has its own enormous, and financially rewarding, market too.

 

These combined factors are going to change and disrupt the makeup of anime content --- potentially less pervy stuff (Chinese censors + Western self censorship); more gritty and action related, as well as anime that ties less into Japanese culture such as Amazon's Made in the Abyss and Netflix' Little Witch Academia.  Finally, the disruption may extend to the entire anime industry itself, already in revolution by video streaming, and now about to take it to the next step further.

[Xero_Snake]

Fate/Apocrypha is apparently licensed streaming by Netflix. The trend would grow soon enough.

Animators' living conditions & salaries are the main problem for the Japanese anime industry. Without good pays & modest lifestyle, animators would get demoralized that would resulting the industry suffering gradual decline. The only catch is, would Netflix save Japan's anime industry?

Though, I do think that moe & ecchi stuffs has become somewhat mainstream these days. No, I'm nothing against moe. I'm just thinking that the anime industry needs to be more innovative, like less generic harem craps, more series with interesting settings.

For this season, I found a few interesting series like Isekai Shokudou (slice of life with bizarre fantasy) & Koi to Uso (drama). I just hope more innovations must be made for existing genres. This season might be the turning point for the industry, I guess.

More importantly, to what end Kadokawa wishes to monopolize the industry from the first place? What is wrong with Crunchyroll?

[HellaCopterRescue]

I definitely see this, I remember back in the day like 5 years ago there would hardly be anything on the anime section....and now it takes me ages to pick something.

[ConquerorSEA_2014]

If they can provide superior services than piracy then i might think they will be.

[OgreMkV]

The bigger issue as I understand it isn't the Netflix created anime (some of which is really excellent), but the licensed stuff. 

While many people binge watch, Netflix does have anime that could be simulcast (or at least within a day or two of the original airing). 

It's not a big deal to me, but there are a lot of people (apparently) who discuss anime at the time it is released and that there is so much coming out, that the shelf life of an anime title peaks then falls off rapidly. Which could lead Netflix and Amazon to misunderstanding their viewer numbers. For example, they purchase rights to a really popular anime, but everyone who really wants to see it already has (pirated) and without promotion to non-traditional customers, it looks like a flop. Which will prevent them from wanting to purchase more. 

[ConquerorSEA_2014]

6 minutes ago, OgreMkV said:

The bigger issue as I understand it isn't the Netflix created anime (some of which is really excellent), but the licensed stuff. 

While many people binge watch, Netflix does have anime that could be simulcast (or at least within a day or two of the original airing). 

It's not a big deal to me, but there are a lot of people (apparently) who discuss anime at the time it is released and that there is so much coming out, that the shelf life of an anime title peaks then falls off rapidly. Which could lead Netflix and Amazon to misunderstanding their viewer numbers. For example, they purchase rights to a really popular anime, but everyone who really wants to see it already has (pirated) and without promotion to non-traditional customers, it looks like a flop. Which will prevent them from wanting to purchase more. 

Agree,thats what the main issues some people have with Netflix
Gigguk explain this better in detail.
 

 

[More_Witches]

iirc, LWA is produced by Studio Trigger in Japan and merely exclusively licensed by Netflix overseas 

That's why Japan is significantly further ahead in the series 

[Shigure_DD]

We have to see how Sony picking up Funimation dose with Crunchyroll since that should gives them a lot more money and power to deal with getting shows.

[MrDeaf]

Amazon prime would be better if they had more selection, rather than higher quality animation.

I can see they added a bunch of anime from this year, but I am not interested in a majority of them.

Well, okay, I think it should be said that, for this year, there just aren't a whole lot of anime that entertains me.