A lot of them have been taken out recently and some will be taken out on September 30th, but why?
When the license expires, the movie is also removed
Because Netflix is a big A-hole…
The licenses that the streaming providers acquire are usually limited in time or can also be terminated by the licensor. If the license expires and is not renewed or is canceled, the series / film will be taken aside. This applies to both anime and real films / series.
I don't know exactly how your system works but these are all licenses and I think these are expiring and have been sold to other platforms or reserved for them
But how can it be that so many anime lose their license on the same date?
But so many were removed at once, why do so many animes on Netflix have the same license expiration date?
I don't know, I just don't know the system
The licenses expire and so the animes are taken down from Netflix. The reason why many disappear at the same time is that many licenses have the same length of validity and often many licenses are acquired at once. The licenses are therefore of the same length and expire at the same time.
But a lot of animes will come back. It has always been like this. It doesn't necessarily apply to everyone, but it does to most. Durarara, for example, has already been removed twice and is now available again on Netflix for the third time
It is just possible that KAZÉ and peppermint have canceled the licenses at the next possible date and that this falls on the same date.
The companies behind both publishers also operate their own VoD offer (Anime on Demand and Wakanim), through which most of the titles that have been removed from Netflix are available.
It is therefore possible that companies want to strengthen their own VoD offers.
It was similar at Disney +. When this VoD offer appeared, Disney also removed its films / series from Netflix in order to only make them available via its own streaming offer.
I also assume that Netflix will now move into the rails and rely more on the original. Or. Self begins to make itself independent of Kaze etc.
But since over 20 have flown, I assume that Netflix will take care of it again and try to get other titles. Maybe they negotiate something with other anime…
But didn't the other publishers want to look at themselves now to make themselves so much more attractive?
The system is the same everywhere in this area.
Netflix buys co-licenses. That's how it works. Let's do an example with Kaze because there were a lot of titles there. Kaze got the rights to this whole anime, so… It'll be exclusive for about 1-2 years and then say, ah now we can rent it out. So Amazon or Netflix come by. And say ey, we want the rights to Death Note, MHA etc. By 09/05/25. Then it comes to the monetary part. After this has worked, Netflix receives the rights and these are usually valid at the beginning of the new month. That's why Netflix often adds new ones on the new month. So now that's on and on and have finally reached 09/05/25. Now comes an important point. It was worth it for both of them. Did Netflix bring in the money or even make a profit or even incur a total loss. Should a loss have been made, the anime usually fly and the contract is canceled, but often, as well as Pro7Maxx, you simply keep them without paying, because you pay the same price, but maybe other flies then stop etc.
Then, like here, it depends on Kaze. Say ok, do we or, no thanks and expire the contract, so make it void. Netflix has an immediate obligation to remove these from its program. Because they are not the author.
And that is a very rough explanation of the cycle.
Because you agree on 1x contract. Often there are around 10+ anime in the contract. And they all have a date when the license could expire and in the contract they are all and there, many were negotiated, all of which fly on the same day.
It's a real cycle that isn't exactly simple.
The sad thing is, Netflix can often do nothing about it.
