Netflix made a major splash at Anime Expo over the weekend, dropping new trailers, clips and images from its anime lineup including “Sakamoto Days,” “My Melody & Kuromi,” and “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 ...

Netflix’s global reach has proven crucial to anime’s expansion. New anime titles launch simultaneously in 190 countries with dubbed audio and audio descriptions in up to 33 languages.

Recently, Japan Times sat down with Netflix’s director of anime to talk about the company’s interest in anime. Taito Okiura is the man behind Netflix’s anime acquisition and production. The ...

But Netflix isn’t just spending on anime for the sake of the global market. It is also eyeing expansion in Japan itself, where it has an estimated six million subscribers.

5) Anime Is Key To Netflix’s Expansion in Asia As impressive as anime’s numbers are in the West, they’re overwhelming in Asian territories where Netflix still has low penetration.

As Netflix VP of product innovation Todd Yellin told WIRED last year, only 10 percent of the people who watch anime on Netflix live in Japan. The other 90 percent are sprinkled around the globe.

Jefferies, a global investment bank, has identified three major companies that are poised to benefit from the booming anime industry, which is expected to reach a value of $60 billion by 2030.

Netflix made a splash at Anime Expo 2025 with a slew of announcements, but the biggest surprise might be that half of all of its subscribers are anime fans. Focus Reset. Skip to content.

ORIGINAL STORY: CD Projekt has announced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, a new Netflix anime series set in the world of its Cyberpunk 2077 video game. The developer has reunited with studio Trigger ...