Netflix “May Make Anime”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 7, 2015 04:26 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Internet, Marketing, Netflix, USA, Video Gallery
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…
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Licensing != making
they've been licensing anime for a while, they're thinking about actually sponsoring it now
someone needs to check what the word "make" really means in the dictionary
Netflix is the shit, some amazing originals too. Cant wait for Jessica Jones, more Daredevil and Pesky Blinders.
*Peaky
The future of TV is streaming. If you follow TV ratings, you'd see year on year most networks are losing viewers.
given the high cost they expect cable/sat providers to pay for their shit, which the consumer ends up paying for, they deserve to lose customers.
You're right, Netflix is Shit.
Must suck, being a poorf@g.
You're missing out over petty nonsense. Netflix should be praised up and down not hated in in any way. What other company is rapidly localizing context to 4 plus counties at time. Not just adding subtitles, but dubbing as well using local talent andniiat just the lowest bidders. People can say they didn't created the anime from then ground up, but they did a way more than they're given credit for. They just released an anime never seen elsewhere and guranteed it has the largest, most culturally diverse voice cast in history.
They already did Sidonia and Seven Deadly Sins, so why is this some new amazing news?
They licensed those. They didn't make them.
conglaturations, a retard is you
Netflix “May Make Anime” - and my butt may make monkeys.
Netflix should make magipoka season 2 and Spice and wolf season 3.
Anime actually isn't very expensive to make. They could pick up a half dozen popular manga/light novels that have yet to recieve the anime treatment and make a ton of $$$$
Yeah, er, stop baiting.
What do you mean, baiting? I assume you think he's trolling by saying anime is cheap to make. It is. Massively so. In comparison to western animation budgets for even pretty mediocre productions, anime costs next to nothing to make. Even the really well-funded ones are cheap in comparison. Steamboy is the most expensive feature-length anime ever, and it cost 26 million USD to make. Tangled, for example, is estimated to have cost 260 million USD to make. Ten times the budget.
Netflix already turned the manga "The Seven Deadly Sins" into a Netflix original series (in association with Aniplex). How is this news?
They didn't make that, they simply licensed it. They've suggested they'll be producing series from the ground up.
nigga u dumb
I just keep thinking of all the tards I see calling Avatar: The Last Airbender an "Anime" and can't stop thinking "I sure as shit hope this doesn't create more tards."...Don't get me wrong, I think Netflix should create animated motion pictures or animated series...and call them animated motion pictures or animated series...but don't call it "Anime" if it clearly isn't made by a Japanese studio with Japanese staff.
You do realize "anime" is merely short for "animation", right?
Context dictates it refers to Japanese stylised animation.
Strange that the Japanese use the term "anime" to refer to all forms of animated works. Funny how people get butthurt about it...by which I mean weeaboos ruining it for everyone.
just like that RWBY shit
It's closer to anime than Adventure time, or Steven's Universe
You have said everything I came here to say. Though, I will add that I do remember when America was satisfied with just putting out terrible dubs of anime.
its not anime when barbarians make it, morons.
your are part of the "barbarians", moron.
True, but all he said was that if barbarians try to make anime it won't be anime what they make. Though, they could give the Japanese money so they can make anime.
Considering anime literally means animation, and it's a copied form of media that existed in America, Germany and France before Japan, I'd have to say you're wrong. In fact, the entire concept of modern day cartoons were inspired by Disney. Mickey Mouse and Snow White were massive inspirations to the entire art form. I'd say anime is more western than western cartoons are more anime, because... Well... The west kind of invented it.
Most Kanji were basically copied from China. Japanese are really good at copying stuff in a way that makes it originally Japanese. Anime is one of those things.
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!
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.
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.
to put this in perspective, daredevil's cost was $200 million dollars.
now imagine that kind of money in an anime :D
Sub or Dub though?
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.
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).