Netflix makes deals with 6 anime and manga creators

Netflix continues to be one of those cool kids at the lunch table, with its Naruto headband and a stack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in its backpack (yeah those are the cool kids, it’s 2020 and jocks are fucking over), as Variety is reporting that the streaming service has signed yet another deal with yet another batch of anime and manga creators to make cool animated content for the platform. Last year, Netflix brought in well-known anime studios like Production I.G and Bones to create new shows (not to mention the much-hyped and long-awaited streaming debut of Neon Genesis Evangelion and the still-in-the-works Cowboy Bebop adaptation), and this year it’s adding to its anime collection by signing deals with artists and writers like Shin Kibayashi (of Drops Of God and Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Fates), Yasuo Ohtagaki (Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt), Otsuichi (Goth), Tow Ubukata (Mardock Scramble), Mari Yamazaki (Thermae Romae), and the all-female art collective Clamp (creators of Cardcaptor Sakura).