Netflix has become the go-to OTT platform for most anime lovers (outside Japan and US mainly). Not only does the streaming platform have the streaming rights to multiple popular anime, it also has bought the production rights to create original anime of their own and recently have created their own anime studio in Japan – showing their commitment to the Japanese art form to its various subscribers around the globe. However, with more and more anime lovers joining as Netflix subscribers, the international streaming conglomerate has had to diversify in their anime projects as well. And one primary example of that is Netflix’s recently released slice of life, coming-of-age animated series, ‘Komi Can’t Communicate’.
Netflix has many brilliant anime series such as ‘Code Geass’, ‘Hunter X Hunter’, ‘Naruto’, ‘Demon Slayer’, ‘Haikyuu’ and many others that are currently available for streaming in its immense library – but there is no variety in viewing among these action based anime. Anime is viewed by people from all walks of life and many would like to watch different anime shows such as ‘My Little Monster’ – a romantic comedy series, ‘Blue Period’ – a comic-of-age anime and ‘Bloom Into You’ – a romance story about two young girls – all of which are available on Netflix. This recently released ‘Komi Can’t Communicate’ is another example of a different, slow paced, positivity vibes spreading TV series that doesn’t depend on butt-kicking and crazy action sequences to get its audiences to pay attention.
The first episode of ‘Komi Can’t Communicate’ was released on Netflix yesterday. New episodes will drop weekly, with episode 2 expected to drop on 28th October 2021.