It turns out the Netflix is investing a lot of money into anime in 2018! So
what's up guys Foxen here! You might have heard about the recent news about
Netflix getting involved in anime heavily next year. It's pretty big news
for anime. I've actually seen a bunch of articles that say 8 billion going
straight into anime but that's not the case so here's a real deal. Netflix
recently announced that they're spending 8 billion with a B. They're gonna be
investing that in original anime and films in 2018. Yes and films, in other
words stuff that is not anime but despite that, 8 billion just think about
that for a second. That is a lot of pocket change. In total they confirmed that
they want to make 30 new anime series and 80 original movies. So 30 new anime
series in total that's pretty huge but what exactly does this mean for anime? And
also what does it mean for you as a consumer? I mean I'm pretty sure you have
a Netflix account or these access to one but I'm curious before I delve into this
let me know how much do you use Netflix to watch anime? Personally for myself
when I think about Netflix I really don't associate it with anime
but on to the bigger question. So right now we know there's gonna be 30 new
anime series or at least that's what they announced. Are these anime series gonna
be 12 episodes? 24 episodes? Are they gonna be anime films? Also another
important question because this is Netflix are these actually going to be
original anime produced by them, or these funded by them? I'm sure you notice
if you've been watching anime or other TV series on Netflix you sometimes see
Netflix original even though they really just bought the rights to them. So again
are they simply gonna be buying rights two to anime series or is Netflix
themselves gonna be actually funding the anime studios to make these series? I got
a feeling it's gonna be somewhere in between maybe 50/50 but even so think
about it like this. That will still be at least anywhere from 10 to 15 series
funded by Netflix. Now another thing to consider is how much of that 8 billion
is actually going towards anime? Let me go ahead and give you a super rough
estimate. Let's assume that these 30 anime series are actually gonna be
series and not films. Right now let's assume they'll be 12 episodes each. If we
want to be conservative for cost of an episode let's go as 100k.
For 12 episodes a series that gives us 1.2 million per anime series. If
they're gonna be making 30 of these that means 36 million for anime from Netflix.
Practically nothing when you consider 8 billion. Now if those anime series are
gonna be 20 episodes or more double that to 60 million. Once again this is a super
lowball estimate. It could either be double or really triple depending on the
quality of the anime they're going for. The other interesting part of notice is
just why is Netflix so much in love with anime. To help answer this question
another interesting bit of information dropped. Netflix just released a list of
the top 20 shows watched within 24 hours, that is to completion. Interesting enough
one anime was included that one being seven deadly sins. This one actually came
in fourth place for the most watched within 24 hours. Just think about that
for a second it's actually pretty crazy to consider the seven deadly sins beat
out Orange is the new black, House of cards and even Stranger things. If
anything is gonna help anime reach a wider audience it may be due to Netflix.
I mean this isn't anything new either. They have been in the anime game for a while. In
the past they've released shows like Ajin, Knights of Sidonia, Blame. While these are
not technically Netflix original a huge chunk was funded by Netflix and then
this year also saw Little witch Academia funded my Netflix but of course
it's not all sunshine and rainbows. This year we also got that live-action anime
movie Death Note and even if we pretend that doesn't exist there still is a
couple of issues with anime funded by Netflix. For one Netflix doesn't
simulcast anime released. A good example is just looking at what happened was a
little witch academia. The whole 24, 25 episodes aired in Japan first then a
couple of months after it ended Netflix released half of it and then the second
half sometime later on as season two. This is also not even getting into the
other issues with the low-quality subtitles for that series and of course
those frakking yellow subtitles on Netflix and the list does go on but let
me stop here. So let me know your thoughts about this so far. Right now I
think there's actually a lot of potential. 30 new anime series
potentially all funded by Netflix is huge. Let's just hope that they're
actually an and not stuff like that recently Neo Yokio.
I'm just wondering could Netflix be the key for old shows to get a new season
shows that otherwise never would? Hey Netflix why don't you go ahead and find
like five konoSuba seasons? I bet that'll be more popular than seven
deadly sins! Anyway that'll be the question of the day for you. Do you even
watch anime on Netflix? And what do you think about Netflix trying to become a
big player in anime? Is there any previous debt anime that you would like
to see them revive? I could think of a whole bunch so let me know about that
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