Summary
- Anime streaming platforms have made anime accessible worldwide, ending the era of waiting for subtitles.
- Streaming services have influenced the diversity of anime genres, encouraging creativity in studios.
- Platforms like Netflix are producing original anime, taking creative risks with unique storytelling and aesthetics.
The anime industry has experienced a major revolution and growth in the audience ever since online streaming platforms started gaining popularity. Watching anime used to be a challenge back then, you had to rely on DVDs or fan-subbed episodes, which often became available long after the original series had aired. International anime fans used to suffer a lot as they had to watch a poorly subbed episode of their favorite anime, often in low quality.
Now platforms like Netflix and Crunchyroll have made watching anime much easier. They have also greatly influenced the way anime is produced these days. So, whether it's over-the-top fan-service or the use of CGI in order to deliver out-of-this-world visuals, streaming platforms in one way or another have shaped anime trends.
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Making Anime Available To Everyone Everywhere
Perhaps the greatest feat of anime streaming platforms is that it has made anime accessible to everyone, no matter where they live. The era of waiting for decades for your favorite anime to be released in English subtitles is now over. Most anime series are now released with subtitles, not just in English but various languages.
This has also attracted people who have never considered watching anime before, making anime super popular globally. You can now even watch anime in high-quality dubs in several languages.
Influencing Genres
Streaming platforms like Funimation, Crunchyroll, and Netflix have not only influenced different genres of anime but have also crafted new ones. Long gone are the days when most of the anime were only shonen. Now we see anime of different genres like sci-fi, romance, fantasy, etc.
You can find an anime on literally anything, be it being reincarnated as a slime or having a parasite attached to your hand. This has greatly encouraged creativity in different anime studios giving us masterpieces like Attack On Titan, Demon Slayer, and Jujutsu Kaisen. This is also why every enemy tries to bring something revolutionary and new to the table.
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Original Productions
Streaming platforms especially Netflix, are also coming out with their very own anime originals. Most of the anime experiment creatively in their genres, which in turn also influences other anime studios to think outside the box. One such example is Devilman Crybaby which also won the Anime Of The Year award.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is yet another masterpiece produced by Netflix which gained a lot of popularity because of its amazing storytelling, phenomenal character designs, and well-executed cyberpunk setting. Streaming platforms are just not afraid to take creative risks, be it the unusual art style in Devilman Crybaby or top-tier action sequences in Cyberpunk Edgerunners, which fans absolutely love to see.
If you always wanted to watch iconic anime like Cowboy Bebop or Neon Genesis Evangelion as a kid but couldn't do it, don't worry, as services like Hulu and Netflix have re-released them with better visuals and quality. Therefore, streaming platforms have also opened the way to nostalgia, making them all the more important.
- Release Date
- 2019 - 2024-00-00
- Network
- Fuji TV, Tokyo MX, Gunma TV, BS11, Tochigi TV, Kansai TV, Tokai Television Broadcasting, Fukui TV, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting, Iwate Menkoi Television, Sendai Television, SAGA TV, TNC, OHK, Ishikawa TV, Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting, TV Shizuoka, UMK TV Miyazaki, Television Shin Hiroshima System, NST, NBS, Sakuranbo TV, TSK, Ehime Broadcasting, KTS, NIB, Fukushima TV, TOS, AKT, Toyama Television, TV Kumamoto, Okinawa Television Broadcasting
- Directors
- Hideki Hosokawa, Shinya Shimomura, Akihiko Uda, Takuro Takahashi, Shuji Miyahara, Masaru Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takuya Nonaka, Yuki Ito, Ken Takahashi, Takahiro Majima, Yusuke Shibata
Cast
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Natsuki HanaeTanjiro Kamado (voice) -
Akari KitoNezuko Kamado (voice)
