Netflix wants to be an anime powerhouse with new Japan leg

Netflix spent a lot of last year travelling to different European countries, and now Deadline is reporting that the streaming service is invading Asia and that its first spot is Japan. Intrigued by the HUGE Japanese anime industry that is humongous in its homeland, Netflix wants to go there and take advantage of the fact that they have just launched a Paris site to go along with their American one…two markets HUGE for cartoons.

The question that has to be asked is would Netflix eventually venture into producing their own original anime? Or would they just be a library from the get-go? The American debut of Knights of Sidonia didn’t exactly blow anyone away, so whomever they get to produce, better do a MUCH better job.

Netflix moves to Australia and New Zealand next month. Arguably, NZ is the stronger of the two markets when it comes to cartoons, however FoxTel is producing a homegrown Aussie series entitled Pacific Heat that could start the change in all of that.