Pacific Rim anime is dropping on Netflix

Following the epicness of the first movie and the disappointment of the second, Netflix will now determine if the Pacific Rim franchise is indeed worth saving. Titled Pacific Rim: The Black, the streaming giant revealed the first look at the anime series.

According to a press release, the show takes place in 2021, a few years before the events of the OG Pacific Rim and Uprising. Teen siblings Taylor and Hayley find themselves searching for their parents in an overrun Australia while learning to pilot an abandoned Jaeger to have a chance at survival.

Long ago, humanity defeated the Kaiju. Now, they’re evacuating Australia. In 2021 join a pair of siblings and their battered, long-abandoned Jaegar as they battle across a continent of danger in Pacific Rim: The Black. @Legendary @POLYGONPICTURES pic.twitter.com/P5ZHZYv9OQ

— NX (@NXOnNetflix) October 27, 2020

 

The show is only one of many anime projects that Netflix has greenlit for a 2021 release, including Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness and Filipino graphic novel TRESE. Anime remains a successful category for Netflix, with over 100 million households watching the genre at least once in the past year. Titles such as Seven Deadly Sins and Baki consistently rank in the Top 10 across 70 countries.

With audience interest expected to grow even more, the platform is going all out on crafting a library that anime fans will salivate over.

‘In just four short years since launching our creative team in Tokyo, Netflix has expanded the reach and overall audience of anime – a category conventionally seen as niche’, said  Chief Producer of Anime, Taiki Sakurai.

‘Given the success of shows such as Seven Deadly Sins and Baki, we are excited now more than ever to challenge ourselves to expand our aspirational anime programming for fans around the world’.

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