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Netflix Says 'More Than Half' of Its Subscribers Watch Anime

  • Netflix revealed at Anime Expo 2025 in Los Angeles that over half of its global users watch anime, reaching more than 150 million households.
  • This surge resulted from anime viewership tripling on Netflix over the past five years, as the medium expanded from niche to global powerhouse.
  • Netflix showcased a robust new anime lineup featuring titles like Sakamoto Days, premiering weekly from July 14, along with teased series such as Record of Ragnarok III and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.
  • In 2024, anime content on Netflix was streamed over 1 billion times, with 33 anime titles landing in the Global Top 10 rankings, and 80 to 90 percent of viewers preferring dubbed versions in up to 33 languages.
  • These developments suggest Netflix will continue investing in anime, reinforcing it as a core genre vital to its global content strategy and cultural reach.
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"Sakamoto Days", "Spy x Family" or "Cyberpunk Edgerunners" : Netflix likes to offer animations to its subscribers and is not ready to stop.

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Anime are for children or nerds – aren't they? No, say Netflix's new business figures. They suggest that Japanese animation series have arrived in the mainstream.

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An estimated 300 million viewers watch anime, and the number of views of this content has tripled in the last five years

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