Netflix subscribers can't get enough of anime, it seems, with new data confirming that Japanese animation has taken the streamer by storm in the first half of 2025.
According to the Anime by the Numbers newsletter, Netflix users watched 4.4 billion hours of anime in the first half of 2025. This is an increase of 11.3% in hours compared to the previous six-month period and a rate of growth that's 10 times higher than all other media on the streamer.
Original and exclusive series are not the source of Netflix's anime success worldwide, though. Of the top 25 anime series in the first half of this year, only five of them were exclusive to the streamer outside of Asia – and Netflix wasn't involved in the production of any of them. In fact, less than 20% of the site's total anime viewership was on Netflix originals.
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