It's sooner than we're used to - at least it's coming out everywhere at the same time, so we aren't waiting months for shows that we know already exist elsewhere - but it still ignores the reality of how anime fans are used to enjoying their cartoons. In fact, Netflix themselves seem to have gotten a clue about this recently, as this season's Blue Period and Komi Can't Communicate have seen Netflix shift to weekly releases for new anime a couple of weeks later than their Japanese airings, but a solid move in the right direction.ĭespite that change in strategy, Netflix has still decided to drop the first 12 episodes of Stone Ocean at the same time. It's actually way more weird and frustrating when Netflix announces a license for a brand new show and we have to wait for it to be complete for it to grace our screens, knowing full well it is coming out weekly in Japan. As such, from weekly old fansubs to current Crunchyroll streaming, anime fans have never really had a binge culture when it comes to new releases. Most anime aren't even fully completed when they premiere, for better and for worse, as anyone who watched anime-making anime SHIROBAKO or the trainwreck of a production that was Wonder Egg Priority can attest to.

RELATED: 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean' Trailer Reveals Netflix Release Dateįirst of all, despite Netflix's binge model becoming almost ubiquitous in TV over the past decade or so (the creators of The Boys felt the need to justify its second season not releasing all at once!), TV anime has been a weekly experience for as long as TV anime has even been a thing. There are definitely downsides, though, and that's why I'm here to ask you to do one thing: do not binge all of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean at once when the first 12 episodes drop on Netflix December 1st. Just watch the next episode, it's right there.

There are definitely benefits to this in the age of streaming, weekly releases feel more artificial than ever, as we all know most shows are fully produced before we see the first episode, and there's no more sting of a painful cliffhanger or being disappointed by a bad week of TV. While TV used to be exclusively a medium that we'd tune in to once a week, talking about the events of each episode with friends and anticipating the release of the next, Netflix has found success by trading almost exclusively in the 'binge' model - that is, releasing all or at least much of a show at one time, giving fans the opportunity to gulp a whole show down as fast as possible.

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