Netflix made a major splash at Anime Expo over the weekend, dropping new trailers, clips and images from its anime lineup including “Sakamoto Days,” “My Melody & Kuromi,” and “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 ...

Furthermore, viewership over the past 5 years has tripled, and 2024 had 33 anime series breaking into the rankings of Netflix’s Global Top 10.

The numbers behind Netflix’s anime explosion are staggering. In 2024 alone, anime was viewed over 1 billion times on the platform, with viewership tripling over the past five years, Netflix said.

Recently, significant changes have been occurring. As anime becomes more mainstream, the sub vs. dub discussion is also evolving in ways that some longtime fans might not have anticipated. A new ...

Last year, anime was viewed more than 1 billion times on the service, with 80-90% of global viewers watching dubbed in a language other than Japanese. Netflix also previewed several upcoming anime ...

Atherton dug deep into Netflix’s regional Top 10 sites for several Asian territories and concluded that two categories pulled in viewers more than any others: anime and Harry Potter.

Netflix’s dominance in the anime space was recently confirmed by a new Dentsu study unveiled by Variety that found 48% of global anime viewers subscribe to Netflix for such programming, significantly ...