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Answerman - How Will Netflix Producing Anime Change the Industry?

This is frankly all BS. In Japan "Golden Time" is from 19:00 to 22:00. Utena aired before that, and 20 years ago there was only one new anime in that time slot. There's half a dozen new shows that air during during that time period this season and several times more that air shortly before or after. Japanese animators have been getting ripped off since Tezuka's days.

Will Netflix learn to simulcast shows anytime soon and not hold onto their shows for months, even years, only releasing them long after everyone has been spoiled?

Anyway, I'll just say it: My main concern with netflix is that it is not Japanese.

We here love anime. Anime is Japanese. Some of my favorite shows of all time would have never, ever been thought of, let alone produced, in another cultural environment. If Netflix is going to be a more prominent player in creating shows, rather than distributing them, what kind of shows are they going to make?

Are they going to make the next Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell? Maybe.

Are they going to make the next Hyouka, Oregairu SNAFU, Index/Railgun, Spice and Wolf, Shirobako? Probably not.

I don't want to watch your standard Western blockbuster/comic adapted into anime form. We already have enough for that. I want to watch anime.

Reading through these "Oh no, the sky is falling" type responses makes me wonder if any of these people have ever used Netflix, knows how Netflix works, or even know what Netflix is.

Will more anime produced/licenced by Netflix = more sanitized anime to appeal to mainstream? My bets are on "no".

I signed up for Netflix to watch Orange Is The New Black, and continued to subscribe because they offer a large variety of shows that pique my interest, and because I often have How I Met Your Mother playing as background noise.

Not everything that Netflix offers appeals to me, and that's fine, and I suspect that Netflix is fine with that too. After all, people pay for access to a library of shows. All that matters to Netflix is that people keep subscribing, other than assessing how much they pay to licence/produce something, why would they care if a particular show or movie is only getting a small percentage of viewers?

With that in mind, it would be in Netflix's interest to continue their strategy of having a wide variety of programs for people to watch, so any fears that Neflix's foray into the anime world is going result in anime becoming boring generic mainstream junk is unfounded.

Also Netflix is just a drop in the bucket of a multi billion dollar industry.

Not that these shows can´t get made. I support that they get made. But to cite the American example before, the first 3 movies have sex and boobs and fanservice as an integral part of their plots. It´s in later American Pie films where sex and fanservice is more of a sellout gimmick than a necessary plot point. In the case of Kill la Kill and Monster Musume, sex and fanservice is a necessary plot point. In Nisekoi, Angel 3Piece, and Isekai series with harems, sex and fanservice could easily be removed from the picture and it won´t change the shows in any way, ´cause they´re unnecessary.

Creators have basically already confirmed this to be the case anyway. Like, some have even complained about having too much creative freedom! That says it all right there.

Netflix has been very loose with their directions. Letting creators do basically anything they want. Furthermore, up to this point, they haven't done anything more than give these people wads of cash and a very generous production schedule. And by "these people" I mean creators, who usually happen to be Japanese.

I'm curious to know where this is coming from; I don't think I've seen it on ANN.