Netflix is Planning Even More Anime Content as it Strikes New Deals with Four Creators in Japan and Korea
Netflix sure does love its anime content! There’s a ton of anime on the streaming service filled with both original and preexisting content. The streaming service is looking to expand in the anime arena even more and its production, to help in that effort they’ve signed four deals with creators from Japan and Korea.
The producers they’ve made deals with include Japan’s NAZ, Science SARU, MAPPA, and Korea’s Studio Mir. These deals take the streamer’s total content deals in the two territories to nine. Each deal is a non-exclusive production line partnership. Netflix says its aim is “to create the best content for the global anime community”.
Taiki Sakurai, Anime Chief Producer, Netflix said in a statement:
“In just four years, we’ve built a dedicated team based in Tokyo that serves to entertain the global anime community through new and aspirational storytelling. With these additional partnerships with industry trailblazers who do amazing work, often marrying the latest technologies and traditional hand-drawn animation, we’re excited to bring fans a greater variety of even more amazing stories.”
Under the existing anime partnerships, some of the original anime productions that have been made include Altered Carbon: Resleeved (Anima), Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 (Production I.G), and Dragon’s Dogma (Sublimation). The original anime projects coming in 2021 include Spriggan (David Production), Vampire In The Garden, (WIT STUDIO – a group company under Production I.G), and Super Crooks (Bones).
Do you enjoy watching the anime content on Netflix? Do you like the original projects that they’ve developed?
Source: Deadline