Netflix Announces 5 New Anime Titles in Production
Netflix is really doubling down on their anime content. During a recent livestream event dubbed Netflix Anime Festival 2020, the streaming service showed off five new anime that they’re working on as well as updating fans on 11 other titles coming soon. Talking about the success of anime on the streaming platform, Taiki Sakurai said:
In just four short years since launching our creative team in Tokyo, Netflix has expanded the reach and overall audience of anime - a category conventionally seen as niche. Given the success of shows such as Seven Deadly Sins and Baki, we are excited now more than ever to challenge ourselves to expand our aspirational anime programming for fans around the world.
To do so, we will continue to invest in new talent, and promote diversity from within. We’re excited to announce welcoming Anand Varna, our second Gobelins Fellowship student to our Creative team through our successful multi-year program with the French institution.
Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure
The production of the new series of Rilakkuma has been produced in stop-motion animation following the success of “Rilakkuma and Kaoru.” The series depicts an active day of incidents and meetings that take place when Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma, Kiiroitori, and Kaoru go play in an amusement park that is about to close.
Director: Masahito Kobayashi, dwarf.
Written by Takashi Sumita & Makoto Ueda, Europe Kikaku.
Animation Production: dwarf studios, TYO Inc.
Production: San-X Co.,Ltd.
Cast: Mikako Tabe (Kaoru)
Thermae Romae Novae
The very popular manga by Yamazaki Mari has been brought back to life in the present day in a new way (“Novae” means “new” in Latin). Based on the manga, new episodes created by Mari Yamazaki will also appear. Lucius, a bath designer in the Roman Empire, accidentally slips back in time to present-day Japan and learns about Japanese bath culture in this comedy.
Original manga: Mari Yamazaki
Animation Production: NAZ.
High-Rise Invasion - Coming Soon 2021
Based on the manga by Miura Tsuina (Ajin) and Takahiro Oba (Box!), this is an unpredictable and frightening survival story set in high-rise buildings that don’t reach the ground. The protagonist, Yuri, decides to survive in order to destroy this illogical world and kill the enemy wearing the "mask", but what will she do?
Original story: Tsuina Miura.
Manga: Takahiro Oba.
Director: Masahiro Takata.
Series Composition: Toko Machida.
Character Design, Animation Director: Yoichi Ueda.
Music: tatsuo, Yoichi Sakai.
Animation Production: ZERO-G.
Cast: Haruka Shiraishi, Shiki Aoki, Akira Sekine, Junya Enoki, Yuichiro Umehara.
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Coming Soon 2021
This series consists of four strange episodes that Kishibe Rohan, the manga artist from "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable," saw and heard in a destination he visited to collect material for the manga.
Based on a story by Hirohiko Araki, Shueisha Jump Comics
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Character Designer: Shunichi Ishimoto.Animation Production: david production
Cast: Takahiro Sakurai
The Way of the Househusband - Coming Soon 2021
The most evil yakuza, Tatsu, is a legend in the underworld. He chose to walk away from the yakuza to become a full-time househusband!
Based on a story by Kosuke Oono
Director: Chiaki Kon (Nodame Cantabile, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie)
Series Composition: Susumu Yamakawa
Production Studio: J.C.STAFF
Cast: Kenjiro Tsuda.