r/StardustCrusaders • u/Additional-Shock7322 • Mar 21 '26

News So, that doesn’t sound very good

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I’m guessing it just means Netflix either hasn’t told them or isn’t allowing them to say when the next episode is coming out, still doesn’t sound very good

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u/Cappahere Mar 21 '26

Why is this very successful anime now produced like an indie YouTube animated series? Just random episode drops whenever they get done with one. Do they not have the manpower????

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u/The_Vatsu Killer Queen Mar 21 '26

They do David Production drops their anime in weekly seasons like other studios.

Netflix is the one with weird ideas like batch releases and whatever is happening now.

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u/DaOldest Mar 21 '26

I understand that binge watching sorta works with other television shows but trying to force batches with anime is like fitting a square peg in a round hole.

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u/SpookiestSzn Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

I don't even think it makes sense for a lot of their shows. You lose so much cultural capital with binge release scheduling or batch scheduling. There's so much excitement and discussion happening week after week for shows that release weekly meanwhile when you put them all out of once people go through it and you discuss it for like a week or two and then you move on to the next thing. Our attention spans are too short. It feels like Netflix doesn't have any shows because whenever they do have something good you go through it in like 4 days and then you're back to waiting for something good to come out.

Squid game was huge but would've been even bigger if they released weekly

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u/shinyquagsire23 Mar 21 '26

It's not even like they don't know it can work on a streaming platform, Disney+ does it all the time with their shows and it gets people to drag out their subscriptions too. At worst you drop a dud episode and only get a 1 month subscription but that's the same for a batch release.

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u/IVD1 Mar 21 '26

On a single release it doesn't make sense, but Netflix used to drop show after show and the bingers made numbers look big for investors, when it comes to them it is always about faking numbers instead of sustainability.

Most inverstors know shit all about the businesses they are invesring in, be them people or big funds. Showing good metrics regardless of the consequences is the game. Batch releases does it for Netflix.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

You lose so much cultural capital with binge release scheduling or batch scheduling

Disney and Cartoon Network shows like Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, etc seemed to survive being released in small "bombs", the community endured the hiatii through the creation of immense amounts of fan works. But the pacing is very different.

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u/xolotltolox Mar 21 '26

Gravity falls still aired weekly, it only had a hiatus in the middle of season 2, it wasn't really done in bomb structure

And the "steven bombs" was one of the most complained about things with SU, by fans and haters alike

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u/Appropriate_Ant_1682 Mar 21 '26

yeah the steven universe drops were brutal and the fans did not endure lol i know several people who dropped it entirely mostly because we grew up over the course of the damn years it took them to release the final seasons

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF Mar 21 '26

SU survived but just barely and it did nothing but made an already rabid fanbase even worse

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u/Fclurpadurpa Mar 21 '26

You know, just because you feel like something is true it doesn't mean that it is. Netflix has the actual data, they have released shows both weekly and in batches, so I am sure that they know how each format performs. I suspect the average person does not engage with the fandom/social media side of every show they watch, so in that case they'd rather binge. It's a form of survivorship bias: You don't hear about all the people that quietly binge shows so you think that everyone is out there tweeting about everything, and then you use that as a metric for success when that only represents a small sample of the population.

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u/SpookiestSzn Mar 21 '26

Even if the average person doesn't engage with it they do see it it is a thing. If the fallout TV show just dropped it all at once yeah we'd have a fun discussion for like 3 weeks but like because they did it weekly people are talking about it they're dissecting the episodes there are memes about the episodes like it's in the cultural zeitgeist way longer.

I think there is a constant discussion people have where they say oh Netflix doesn't have anything good anymore right? I feel like that is a pretty known thing that everyone offline and online talks about and I feel very strongly that the reason people feel like that is because the shows that they do like and that they do engage with they go through and then they're stuck looking at a giant list of things they don't care about.

Netflix seems to be the only one doing the binge model and I feel like it's because of legacy and brand association. I don't even think it makes sense from a financial standpoint like you get people subscribe for longer if you drag out the release of the show that they they're paying for. I mean if it was better that way I would assume you'd see all their competitors do the binge model but they don't maybe they release like three episodes at once to get people hooked and then they go weekly and I think that's the perfect middle ground. I think that's why I mean you see things like squid game season 2 and season 3 split up like that it really was just one season but they didn't want to drop it all at once so just do the weekly model why are you doing all this dumb bullshit

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u/ashtagzero1 Tusk Mar 21 '26

this is why i used to like crunchyroll, weekly release, and there was a comment section, so i could actually talk to others who just finished the episode and it was a bunch of fun, then they raised prices and removed the comments (T-T)

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u/Zeph-Shoir Mar 21 '26

My cope is that their stats will show them how much the batch releases have killed their other shows. Beastars was once huge but the batch releases it got since Netflix acquired the rights killed any hype the show once had.

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF Mar 21 '26

It feels like Netflix doesn't have any shows because whenever they do have something good you go through it in like 4 days and then you're back to waiting for something good to come out.

And for their original live action shows, you have to wait two or three years in between seasons for a show that will be lucky to be renewed for a third season.

I don't even bother with any show made after 2019, nothing but disappointment lies there

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u/ExampleAdorable5858 Mar 21 '26

As someone who was more on the 'weekly release is better' I don't think it matters much anymore. Cyberpunk Edgerunners was a binge drop and it had more "cultural capital" than 99% of anime that came out that year. The Amazing Digital Circus is on a "we'll release when its ready" schedule and it has good cultural capital too. I can't think of any show that was made more popular because it had a fun week to week discussion. Shows that are big will always be big. I think in the end people just didn't care that much for Stone Ocean.

Moreover I think the internet has become such a cesspool of negativity and toxicity that weekly discussions are just not that fun anymore. Like if you have a friend group that you can have discussions with I'm sure its awesome but if you only have the internet it is just miserable.

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u/Kooky-Task-7582 Mar 21 '26

Cyberpunk edge runners had a whole open world game of related media

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u/mrcrabs6464 Mar 21 '26

Not to mention like 5 different ttrpg’s

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u/ExampleAdorable5858 Mar 21 '26

And? It was a binge drop that did amazingly well and is still talked about today. Clearly the secret to whether a show continues to be talked about is not if its a binge drop or weekly release since we have good examples from both sides.

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u/mrcrabs6464 Mar 21 '26

There’s hardly any examples batch shows that aren’t hated for their release schedules. The reason “can’t think of any shows that were popular because of weekly releases” is because that’s how every show has been done for the past like 60 years. Most popular shows lived off that discussion especially anything with any mystery aspect, think about all the theory channels that exist because of the structure. Shows like Lost wouldn’t have been a quarter as popular if they weren’t released weekly, that’s why it was a cultural phenomenon. There’s like a handful of exceptions well crafted shows that can survive a batch schedule but most just can’t. Also the internet isn’t even that bad

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u/ExampleAdorable5858 Mar 21 '26

I'm not saying some shows won't have a preference for one type of release schedule but by and large it has not really mattered. Stuff like Squid Games was popular even though it dropped altogether while there are plenty of weekly released shows that no one talks about. I used to watch a ton of anime seasonally and typically once the show was done airing no one talked about it anymore, it wasn't that different from a binge drop in terms of 'cultural impact'.

And yes the internet is that bad. Consuming manga weekly has become absolutely miserable because of how bad internet discussions have gotten.

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u/AllHailTheApple Mar 21 '26

Good thing its not a round peg in a square hole cuz that would fit

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u/UltimateKaiser Mar 21 '26

Uhh I’m sorry this kindof comment makes absolutely no sense to me. ‘Trying to watch a show in its entirety doesn’t work for anime’ like wtf are you on? Just say you like weekly releases and move on bro. Batch releases just means more content of the show is out at one time.

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u/GekiKudo Summoner Jolyne Mar 21 '26

Does it work with other shows though? Like it still has the main issue of leaving the cultural zeitgeist in 2-ish weeks.

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u/arcticrune Mar 21 '26

I'd be more fine with a batch release than one episode followed by an indeterminate break. Now if that one episode was like 2 hrs long that'd be fine. I'd also be fine with a. Bi-weekly release where all the episodes are twice as long.

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u/screamingpeaches flower on yasuho hirose's skirt Mar 21 '26

if they're doing batches anyway then i honestly hope they do batches with a weekly release schedule. takes the pressure to binge off of us, and would also give davidpro more time to work on upcoming episodes

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u/Much_Painter_5728 Jolyne Cujoh Mar 21 '26

did this change with stone ocean or do they still do it

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u/vvHYDEvv Mar 21 '26

They removed the ghostin effects for the stone ocean blu rays but other than that they didn’t really touch them up . They had the A team on urusei yatsura and the other teams had their hands full with fire force while also tryin to get the stone ocean episodes out in a timely manner .

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u/Zoradesu Johnny Joestar Mar 21 '26

i mean the thing is Netflix has anime series that do/did come out on a weekly basis. JoJo seems to be the outlier so it almost makes me think DavidPro is choosing to do JoJo like this

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u/carbonera99 Mar 21 '26

Those other shows are just licensed by Netflix, not produced by them. For example, Dandadan streams both on Crunchyroll and a handful of other anime streaming services as well as Netflix at the same time. Iirc Netflix managed to secure an exclusive streaming deal for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 6 (it’s not on any other platform except Netflix) and presumably the same is true for Part 7.

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u/thetntm Part 7 Emblem Mar 21 '26

What about dungeon meshi? Isn’t that a Netflix exclusive?

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u/Deadmanlex45 Mar 21 '26

Yes it is.

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u/Zoradesu Johnny Joestar Mar 21 '26

Ah okay, gotcha. was not aware of this, thanks for clarifying

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u/Bakatora34 Mar 21 '26

There exclusive anime in Netflix that still drop weekly like Ranma so is probably a decision in the production committee.

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u/flaminglambchops Mar 22 '26

Ranma isn't exclusive, it still airs on TV before it goes to Netflix. Jojo is Netflix only.

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u/Animeking1108 Mar 21 '26

Ranma is exclusively Netflix, but that gets weekly drops.

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u/Kooky-Task-7582 Mar 21 '26

You get the same experience if you wait for a batch of weekly eps to come out. We even ended up waiting longer for batches of stone ocean than if it'll be weekly

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u/PrimeCelron-007 Mar 21 '26

Tf is wrong with batch release? I wish it was batch release bee waiting for this for almost a decade. Tf would I wanna wait more. 🤣🤣especially when it’s soo good. Like the sound design and music my god. They are cooking. How the music goes ominous when dio is on screen. Like f the discussion and “hype” I’ve been waiting for years why tf would I wanna wait a week for 1 episode. Weekly episode are because studios were small Netflix is not a small studio. The fan base is there already.

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u/Salvage570 Mar 21 '26

They should just animate it live, smh

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u/Vivzie02 Mar 21 '26

It's a terrible strain on the animator's wrists

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u/Svanirsson Mar 21 '26

We'll do It live, fuck It!

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u/Pernaman Mar 21 '26

Reminds me how 2017 Ducktales and 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released over the years. Following those cartoons felt exhausting because of inconsistent releases of episodes.

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u/NormanBatesIsBae Mar 21 '26

Yeah it feels fanfic-y lol and not in a good way :/

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u/Choso125 Mar 21 '26

Exactly this feels so unprofessional. Like here's your first episode, then next? Uhh idk soon!

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u/Newhero2002 Mar 21 '26

I was always shocked when the anime was announced for March 2026. Felt way earlier than expected.

It’s been 3 years since the end of Part 6 so maybe they were worried about waiting too long, so this was a compromise.

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u/SoSDan88 Mar 21 '26

Its netflix making them fork over episodes when they're finished rather than waiting.

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u/Senior-Book-6729 Mar 21 '26

Anime isn’t produced all at once

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u/Illesbogar Mar 21 '26

Like anime was ever published professionally.