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

Netflix made a splash astatine Anime Expo 2025 with a slew of announcements, but the biggest astonishment mightiness beryllium that fractional of each of its subscribers are anime fans.

The streaming mega institution touched connected the numbers successful a station that was shared arsenic portion of Anime Expo during the weekend. Included successful the database of upcoming shows fans tin look guardant to, specified arsenic Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, Sakamoto Days, and Dan Da Dan, Netflix shared that “more than fractional of Netflix’s members” ticker anime successful immoderate capacity. It’s acold from a elaborate breakdown, but it’s inactive an awesome stat, to accidental the least.

While we don’t person the company’s existent subscriber count, we bash cognize that it was much than blessed to stock that it had crossed the 300 cardinal subordinate people erstwhile announcing a terms hike successful January of this year. That means astir 150 cardinal Netflix users are tuning successful to cheque retired anime episodes caller and aged arsenic the streamer continues to put successful the fashionable animation medium.

These numbers enactment up with a caller Dentsu survey (as shared by Variety), which surveyed 8,600 consumers from 10 countries to find that 48% of Netflix subscribers are anime fans. They’re beardown numbers for immoderate streaming platform, with the survey uncovering that 32% of Disney+ viewers and 29% of Amazon Prime Video subscribers tuned into akin content. Dentsu besides recovered that 31% of planetary consumers person astatine slightest 1 anime they tune into each week, with Netflix towering supra the contention successful the U.S., wherever 63% of its assemblage watches anime.

Netflix has dilatory poured much resources into its anime efforts passim the past decade. Anime based connected video games person been peculiarly palmy for the company, with highlights being shows based connected Castlevania, Devil May Cry, The Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077. Original anime similar Beastars, Devilman Crybaby, and Pluto person arrived successful the years since, too, with each offering thing antithetic for each benignant of viewer.

Netflix confirmed astatine Anime Expo 2025 that it has nary volition of scaling backmost its anime offerings. Dan Da Dan Season 2 is midst of releasing caller episodes each week, with much from Leviathan, Sakamoto Days, and My Melody & Kuromi acceptable to driblet earlier the period is out. Netflix subscribers were besides precocious treated to the committedness that much Record of Ragnarok episodes volition premiere this December portion they hold for the Beastars Final Season Part 2 successful 2026 and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 astatine an unspecified constituent successful the future.

For much from Anime Expo 2025, you tin work up connected everything announced astatine the Crunchyroll panel. You tin besides cheque retired our database of the apical 15 shonen anime bid ever.

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