Kaata Sakamoto, Vice President of the Content Department of Netflix, recently spoke about the enormous popularity of the “Sakamoto Day” anime. We summarize.
24.4 million views
With over 24.4 million calls in the first six months of 2025, “Sakamoto Days” not only occupied the 33rd place of the world’s most successful Netflix title, but also applies according to Sakamoto “The most viewed Japanese anime in the half -year comparison” – especially thanks to the worldwide exclusive distribution.
Netflix calculates streaming calls by shared the overall users through the runtime of a title-basically it is a measurement of the viewer density. This process tends to favor shorter series or films because they can be fully viewed faster.
In the further course of the conversation with AV Watch, Sakamoto said that Netflix is ​​increasingly receiving inquiries from studios in the earliest development phase of upcoming anime projects regarding global sales.
This was also the case with “Sakamoto Days”, which means that there was enough time to understand the work thoroughly and to develop a marketing strategy that was individually tailored to each country – which had proven to be successful.
Between January and September 2025, the anime implementation of “Sakamoto Days”, which is based on the Yuuto Suzuki manga series of the same name, was shown in 22 episodes at Netflix with German and Japanese synchronization in the simulcast.
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