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Washington [US], October 27 (ANI): Netflix announced its plan to produce five new original anime series on Tuesday.
The streamer will join a list of 11 original anime projects already in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
These five new anime projects will be titled ‘Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure’, ‘Thermae Romae Novae’, ‘High-Rise Invasion’, ‘Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan’ and ‘The Way of the Househusband’.
The new projects were teased during a live-streamed fan event called Netflix Anime Festival 2020. According to Netflix, Japanese anime has become one of the company’s most profitable content categories and the company explained the same during the ad.
Additionally, Netflix said that over the past year more than 100 million households around the world chose to watch at least one anime title on the service, representing 50 percent year-over-year growth. Anime titles also made Netflix’s top 10 list in nearly 100 countries in 2020 so far, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“In just four years since the launch of our creative team in Tokyo, Netflix has expanded the reach and general audience for anime, a category conventionally viewed as a niche,” said Taiki Sakurai, lead producer of anime at Netflix. “We are excited now more than ever to challenge ourselves to expand our aspirational anime programming for fans around the world.” (AND ME)
