Will Netflix Challenge Crunchyroll In The Anime Streaming Service?
Netflix, one of the world's biggest streaming service providers may be targeting to challenge a specialized streaming service, Crunchyroll in terms of streaming anime series and films. According to a report in Tech Times, Netflix is taking a strong interest in both original anime and older, more classic anime series.
The company's recent projects include a new series in cooperation with the anime studio P.A. Works, which is titled "Kuromukuro" and is a special project to commemorate the studio's 15 years. The studio agreed to an exclusive streaming premiere on Netflix last April 11, which was only a few days after the series' premiere in Japan. New episodes of the series will be available every Monday. Initial streaming release was limited to a few countries, but Netflix said that they will make it available to other countries, but did not indicate a release date.
The streaming service also picked up another Japanese manga "Ajin: Demi Human" which it will adapt into a series with 13 episodes. It is about a Japanese high school student who becomes an immortal or "Ajin" after dying, who must also hide for his life as there are those who hunt immortals like him.
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The company also has several original anime projects ongoing, which includes "Perfect Bones," another series about a world where scientists are trying to create the perfect human by working on creating perfect children, while an evil group wants to capture these children and use them for evil. This project is said to be headed by the same director as "Ghost in a Shell." This is not Netflix's first foray in original anime as it also created the original series "Knights of Sedonia," two seasons of which are available for streaming.
The biggest anime project that Netflix is undertaking is the live-action feature film adaptation of the anime "Death Note." This is about a high school student who gets a hold of a supernatural notebook where one can write a person's name so that they will be killed.
