Culture news In 2023, this original anime has surpassed Demon Slayer on Netflix. It’s a real feat!
On Netflix in 2023, against all expectations, it was not Demon Slayer which won the title of most popular anime on the platform.
Surprise, it is not Demon Slayer which wins the title of most viewed anime on the Netflix platform in 2023, but rather a more unknown production. Valkyrie Apocalypse, a dark fantasy martial arts series, has received a nice boost in popularity in recent months thanks to the launch of its second season.not. “HASBefore eradicating humanity, the gods decide to give Men one last chance to prove what they are worth. Let the battles of Ragnarok begin”, we can read in the description of the series which is made by Netflix. Here the best human fighters in History and the gods clash, including Adam, Jack the Ripper, Buddha, Nikola Tesla, Nostradamus, Grigori Rasputin, Leonidas I of Sparta, etc. against Thor, Zeus, Poseidon, Anubis, Beelzebub, Shiva, Hugin and Munin, etc.
The first season launched in 2021, taking up the eponymous story written by Shinya Umemura and Takumi Fukui and illustrated by Azychika. The series was published from November 2017 in the magazine Monthly Comic Zenon. The anime adaptation is signed by Graphinica for the first season and by Yumeta Company for the second. It was the ComicBook media that shared with us the top 10 most watched anime, a ranking based on the number of viewers per hour.
Top 5 most viewed anime on Netflix in 2023
- Valkyrie Apocalypse: 11.0 million
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: 10.8 million
- Vinland Saga: 5.7 million
- Maniac by Junji Ito: Macabre Anthology: 5.6 million
- Oshi no Ko: 5.4 Million
Anime in force on Netflix in 2024
It smells very good for Netflix anime in 2024. The animated adaptation of Monsters, the one-shot by Eiichiro Oda published in 1994 in Shonen Jump, is fast approaching ; a highly anticipated story since it is linked to the One Piece manga, the character of Ryuma appearing in the form of a zombie in the Thriller Bark arc. The spin-off will be broadcast in France on Netflix but also ADN from January 21, 2024. The famous studio behind the animated adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen and Attack on Titan is also hitting hard at the start of 2024 with Maboroshi , the new MAPPA nugget already available which is located in a universe reminiscent of the short story Those Who Leave Omelas. “After a factory explosion, a small town is literally suspended in time,” reads the synopsis. We then follow Masamune, 14 years old, who tries to adapt to this reality with his friends.