A recent interview with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the DealBook conference has revealed that the company has become interested in producing anime to expand their ever growing media service, doubtless leading fans to hope efforts to account for the tastes of gun and cyborg loving western audiences will give rise to some hits.
Hastings states that he wishes to pursue an even wider range of unique programming, with “anime” and “Bollywood-style shows” apparently catching his interest most for their dominance in foreign markets.
The online streaming media service already possesses a host of anime for viewing and even launched Netflix Japan on September 2nd, so expanding on the concept was not a surprising course of action.
The entire interview:
The CEO goes on to mention that such programming would aid in acquiring more users in foreign regions, although whether an American company attempting to cater to Japanese audiences would have any more success than Japanese companies did with their occasional made-for-export titles remains to be seen.
It has not been specifically stated whether Netflix intend to actually create their own original anime and shows, or if they instead intend to adapt existing works into brand new shows – either way, more shows from a company with both ratings and advertiser independence hardly sound like a bad thing…
If they are any smart at all, instead of trying to produce their own anime, they will just partner in an anime production committee (basically limiting themselves to funding, while letting the Japanese do their thing how they better know).
I love anime!!! Bring more over!! That Bollywood crap is about 60 years behind the rest of the world!! Its style went out of vogue around the time of color tv Netflix does not need more of it.
Sub or Dub though?
to put this in perspective, daredevil’s cost was $200 million dollars.
now imagine that kind of money in an anime 😀
A Western company having executive control over anime production? Whelp, here comes the SJW animu’s. Get ready to check your fucking privilege, weebs. HERE CUMS THE DIVERSITY!
Because there is so much to ruin these days isn’t there? Bah, most genres I like are basically dead these days because they can’t squeeze teenage girls into them.
Netflix answers only to it’s customers and soulless investors. They were one of the first to offer Jeremy Clarkson a deal when he got sacked from the BBC, after everyone else was riding the “sack Clarkson!” bandwagon for all his non politically correct controversy.
I don’t think we need to worry about Netflix catering to SJW crowds.