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NEWS: Blue Box TV Anime to Stream on Netflix This Year

Glad Netflix is over their batch releases for weekly series at least

I would have preffered if this is somwhere like CR instead of a non-anime centric streaming service. But at least it's not on Disney Plus which would mean an instant death for the anime. And Netflix somehow learned from their mistakes and streaming anime on a weekly now.

Hopefully this is at least a 2 cour and not jjust the standard 12/13 episode animes that come out nowadays, I do love the manga and hopefully more people will like it when they watch the anime.

OrangeRafi wrote:

I would have preffered if this is somwhere like CR instead of a non-anime centric streaming service. But at least it's not on Disney Plus which would mean an instant death for the anime. And Netflix somehow learned from their mistakes and streaming anime on a weekly now. Hopefully this is at least a 2 cour and not jjust the standard 12/13 episode animes that come out nowadays, I do love the manga and hopefully more people will like it when they watch the anime.

I hope so too!

The only reason I would prefer it to be on Crunchyroll is because they are (usually) (somewhat) better at subtitles. Other than that, I really want Netflix to learn the lesson of My Happy Marriage and stop thinking anime has been be all edgelord all the time. This is a good step forward on getting away from a near constant focus on action stuff. Also, if anime is to continue to grow, it's essential that a variety of shows are on Netflix, or....OK, just Netflix, really. Only Amazon has nearly the reach of Netflix, and they've been hapless with anime. And Disney / Hulu / whatever have largely been anime graveyards.

More people are watching anime on Netflix now that in any other manner at any other time. Also, if nothing else, I tend to like anything that diminishes Sony's near monopoly on anime here. That's the best reason to support HiDive! (plus it's still quite cheap), but Netflix remains the only successful option for a company that can financially complete with Crunchyroll. Somewhat off topic but while I don’t want Sony to have a monopoly on anime I also don’t want to have to pay for like 5 different services to watch anime lol I think having Netflix, Hidive, and Crunchyroll for anime is more than enough.

I know people have issues with Hidive but I personally like them and like you said the subscription is affordable so I don’t mind paying for them. I would have preferred Blue Box going to CR mainly because they would have marketed the series pretty well but I think Netflix is also a good option for show (much better than Disney getting it at least).

Netlix does need to update their menu system though so that you can easily call up an A-Z list of all their anime.