The anime industry It has been growing over the last few years and, as expected, many producers have wanted to take part of the cake. Yes ok Crunchyroll It has been the great beneficiary, Netflix has also taken a good part of the Japanese content. However, this seems to be no longer a priority.
Through an interview in the magazine Weekly ASCII, the journalist Munechika Nishida and the producer Atsushi Matsumoto would have affirmed that Netflix has lost interest in investing in anime due to the high price of some works when obtaining their licences. But it has not only been that, this trend is also due to the enormous success of Korean dramas.
“Unlike South Korean dramas, Japanese animation is not in a situation where it can achieve maximum audiences on its own. Special cases, such as the Squid Game, lead dozens of countries around the world, but it’s never like that with japanese anime. I think this occurs in very few regions, such as some Asian countries, obviously including Japan, and various parts of the United States.”
The great success of South Korean works in the Westcoupled with the low cost of obtaining any of these licenses if we compare them with most anime, has caused the close relationship that Netflix had with Japanese animation to gradually decrease over the last few months.
Even so, the company will continue to bet on highly successful anime, such as One Piece, and Japanese works that are sure to reap good numbers in the West.
