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Fall’s Best Anime Shows Dominate Netflix Charts
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Fall’s Best Anime Shows Dominate Netflix Charts

The fall 2024 anime schedule is now a month into the running, and the season’s hot new shows have really taken over Netflix. It’s been a good year for anime as a whole, and this fall has already proven that it will probably be a good end to the year as well. Some of the biggest shows of the year are now taking over with each of their episodes, and it turns out they invaded the Netflix charts with their first episodes as well as according to the data.

Netflix has landed the streaming rights to some of fall’s biggest new shows, like the newest Dragon Ball series, Dragon Ball DaimaA brand new manga adaptation with Yukinobu Tatsu Dandanand a reboot of the great classic with the complete reboot by Rumiko Takahashi Ranma 1/2. And with Netflix revealing its audiences for the week of October 21-27, it was revealed that anime took three of the spots in the Top 10 non-English TV shows, with two of them holding their positions quite strongly since their premieres firsts.

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Anime takes over Netflix top 10

According to the data revealed for the week of October 21 to 27, Dragon Ball Daima has already reached second place on the Top 10 Non-English Shows in its first week of streaming availability with the service with three million hours watched across 3.2 million views. Dandan follows closely behind in third place, and it also holds this Top 10 spot for the first three weeks of its release with 5.1 million hours watched from 3.1 million views. It’s the same for Ranma 1/2 since the reboot is in 6th place with 2.1 million hours viewed out of 1.4 million views recorded.

These aren’t the only new anime shows Netflix has locked in for fall Blue box also being a hit, but these three are the only ones that made it to the Top 10. This not only shows that anime is bigger than ever with Netflix as it continues to license these shows of great interest , but the interest is also great. also there, even among all the other non-English shows currently available for the service.

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The success of Dragon Ball Daima is easy to attribute to the fact that it is the first new Dragon Ball anime project since Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. Although it starts a new story, the first episode I spent some time going through the past and gave fans a glimpse of it all while looking great while doing it. It was the perfect start to the 40th anniversary celebration it aims to be, so it’s no surprise that the response to the new series has been huge following this perfect start.

In Ranma 1/2′In the case, it’s a reboot of a classic anime series and therefore piques the interest of that classic audience while also attracting the attention of new anime fans. For Dandan, it’s the flagship novelty of the year. This is the series that fans have been hyping up ever since the anime was announced, and what has been delivered so far from the Science Saru creative team has been even exceeded these high expectations. It’s only going to get bigger from here on out, so be sure to browse Netflix if any of these new shows interest you.