{"id":1013841,"date":"2026-08-21T00:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013841\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:17:38","slug":"netflixs-anime-nyc-line-up-is-ridiculously-stacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013841\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s Anime NYC Line Up Is Ridiculously Stacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typically, when a streamer announces\u00a0new anime shows for a given season<\/a>, they take a shotgun approach, where quantity trumps quality. Netflix has proven to be an exception to that trend. In keeping with its reputation for smarter curation of animated shows in its catalog, the streamer reminded folks about its slate of absolutely stacked anime with a batch drop of trailers and new looks at upcoming shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite getting a glimpse of what\u2019s ahead at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival<\/a> in June, Anime NYC<\/a> is here, and Netflix has come out to play with a shortlist of new and continuing series bound to occupy the tippy top of folks\u2019 watchlists. There\u2019s a lot of ground to cover, so to expedite the process, we\u2019re gonna run down what was revealed in alphabetical order, including a brief synopsis of their premises, the studio behind them, their cast, and when they\u2019ll premiere.<\/p>\n

Bass X Machina <\/p>\n

Animated by Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra<\/a>\/Devil May Cry<\/a>), Bass X Machina is a steampunk western anime where a father battles outlaws, machines, and supernatural oddities to protect his family. The show stars Brian Tyree Henry (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/a>), musician and actor Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Tati Gabrielle (Mortal Kombat II<\/a>), and seasoned voice actor Cree Summer. The series premieres on November 3.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Bass<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Mir\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Bass<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Mir\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Bass<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Mir\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Bass<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Mir\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t Blue Eye Samurai Season Two <\/p>\n

Animated by Blue Spirit<\/a>, season two of Blue Eye Samurai<\/a> sees roaming samurai Mizu (Maya Erskine) continue her vengeful journey in search of her father in London. Meanwhile, back in Japan, Mizu\u2019s companion Ringo (Masi Oka) searches for a new purpose in life while Akemi (Brenda Song) and Taigen (Darren Barnet) navigate the politics of Edo Castle under a new, dangerous shogun. The series, by writers and showrunners Amber Noizumi and Michael Green<\/a>, is slated to return in January 2027.<\/p>\n

\"Blue\u00a9 Blue Spirit\/Netflix Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 <\/p>\n

Studio Trigger and CD Projekt RED\u2019s highly anticipated follow-up to the 2023 Anime of the Year-winning series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/a> follows a new crew in Night City<\/a> in a 10-episode standalone story set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>. Along their neo-noir journey, the show\u2014which draws heavy inspiration from classic cinema like\u00a0City of God<\/a>\u2014asks what extremes its heroes are willing to go to for their stories to matter.<\/p>\n

Its cast<\/a> includes Clancy Brown<\/a> (Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants, among many other iconic roles) as Weak Kingsley, an edgerunner; Nazeeh Tarsha<\/a> (Kafka Hibino in Kaiju No. 8<\/a>) as D, a netrunner; Kimoy Lee (Syrup in Witch Watch<\/a>) as Talia, a chromed-out Corpo who fraternizes with the Maelstrom gang; and Valeria Rodriguez<\/a> (Venture in Overwatch<\/a>) as Roman Carax, a young cinephile documenting all the horrors in Night City, LiveLeak-style, from his camcorder. The series premieres on October 20.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Cyberpunk:<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Trigger\/CD Projekt RED\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Cyberpunk:<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Trigger\/CD Projekt RED\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Cyberpunk:<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Trigger\/CD Projekt RED\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Cyberpunk:<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Studio Trigger\/CD Projekt RED\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t Fool Night <\/p>\n

Jointly animated by Sunrise (Mobile Suit Gundam\/Cowboy Bebop) and Shaft (Puella Magi Madoka Magica), Fool Night<\/a>, based on Kasumi Yasuda\u2019s ongoing<\/a> manga series, is a dystopian sci-fi anime set in a world plunged into eternal darkness following an ecological disaster. The only way for humanity to combat a century\u2019s worth of oxygen deprivation from plant life dying out is transfloration, a cutting-edge operation that transforms human beings into plants for the greater good. When a man named Toshiro Kamiya undergoes transfloration to pay for his mother\u2019s medical bills, he and his best friend (employed at a transfloration facility), Yomiko Horai, wind up at the center of a serial-killer plot and a series of dangerous government conspiracies.<\/p>\n

Its main cast includes K\u014dki Uchiyama<\/a> (Tomura Shigaraki in My Hero Academia<\/a>) as Toshiro, and Minako Kotobuki<\/a> (Tsumugi Kotobuki in K-ON!) as Yomiko. Fool Night premieres on November 26.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Fool<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Shaft\/Sunrise\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Fool<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Shaft\/Sunrise\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Fool<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Shaft\/Sunrise\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Fool<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Shaft\/Sunrise\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t Lego One Piece <\/p>\n

Coming off the bon voyage of the live-action One Piece<\/a> series\u2019 second season, this two-part animated LEGO special<\/a> recaps the events of the series thus far as told by the Straw Hat pirates<\/a>\u2018 trusty sniper (and unreliable narrator), Usopp. The special stars I\u00f1aki Godoy as Luffy, Emily Rudd as Nami, Mackenyu as Zoro, Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp, Taz Skylar as Sanji, Charithra Chandran as Nefertari Vivi, Mikaela Hoover as Tony Tony Chopper, and Jeff Ward as Buggy. Lego One Piece premieres on September 29.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Lego<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Lego\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Lego<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Lego\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Lego<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Lego\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Lego<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Lego\/Netflix \t\t\t\t \t\t Sakamoto Days Season Two <\/p>\n

Studio TMS is back with a second season of shonen hitman-turned-family-man mayhem with Sakamoto Days<\/a> season two. The series follows Taro Sakamoto (EN: Matthew Mercer<\/a>, JP: Sugita Tomokazu<\/a>), a legendary hitman who, after retiring from the business for good to become a loving husband and father, is thrown back into the criminal underworld when a nemesis puts his family in his crosshairs. What follows is an action-adventure romp that\u2019s equal parts John Wick and Jackie Chan kung fu cinema wrapped in a delightfully madcap package as Sakamoto and his allies take on a progressively bizarre assortment of antisocial assassins. Sakamoto Days season two premieres in January 2027.<\/p>\n

\"Sakamoto\u00a9 Studio TMS\/Netflix The One Piece \"The\u00a9 WIT Studio\/Netflix <\/p>\n

Rounding things out is a new look at the key visual for WIT Studio\u2019s anime remake of Eiichiro Oda\u2019s long-running shonen series, The One Piece. As we learned earlier this year, the series is seven episodes<\/a>, each with a runtime of roughly 42 minutes, which\u2019ll drop all at once on the streamer. For those keeping track of what that means relative to the ongoing manga\u2019s 1,000+ chapters, the show is adapting the first 50 chapters of the series\u2019 East Blue Saga \u201cup to the point where Luffy and the crew meet Sanji.\u201d The One Piece sets sail in February 2027.<\/p>\n

All in all, Netflix\u2019s slate of upcoming anime looks impressive, to say the least. If we were to pick three shows at the top of our watchlist, it\u2019d be Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, Blue Eye Samurai season two, and Fool Night. Let us know what shows piqued your interest in the comments.<\/p>\n

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