Netflix Anime Leak Sparks Fan Outrage
- Netflix anime leaks include screenshots, clips, and full episodes.
- Fans worry about spoilers and call for early releases.
- Netflix acknowledges the breach but maintains release plans.
- Impacted shows: Terminator Zero, Heartstopper S3, Ranma, Re Zero S3, Arcane S2.
- Arcane subreddit bans spoiler discussions.
Netflix Faces Major Anime Crisis as Fans Freak Out Over Leaks
By Ethan Gach
Published Friday 10:55 AM
There's a ton of cool Netflix anime coming out this fall, and a bunch of it just leaked early.
Screenshots, blurry clips, and in some cases, entire episodes appeared online early, leading fans to worry about spoilers and call on the streaming platform to release shows early.
Days later, Netflix has finally acknowledged the breach but doesn't sound like it's changing its anime fall release plans at all.
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One of our postproduction partners has been compromised, and footage from several of our titles has unfortunately leaked online, a Netflix spokesperson told IGN only several days after the leaks began.
Our team is aggressively taking action to have it taken down.
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While removing leaked content is one thing, the fight against online spoilers in YouTube thumbnails or TikTok videos pelting fans from social media algorithms is another thing entirely.
According to IGN, the list of impacted shows is quite long and includes:
- Terminator Zero
- Heartstopper season 3
- Ranma
- Re Zero season 3
- Dandadan
- Spellbound
- Arcane season 2
- Plankton The Movie, a SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff
Arcane, the League of Legends adaptation about techno-infused class warfare between the utopian city of Piltover and its fringes, was especially hard hit.
Its next season will be its last, but it doesn't begin airing until November.
In the meantime, five whole episodes of the steampunk action series have leaked online with some fans taking the plunge and watching them despite the low quality and internal production watermarks.
Places like the Arcane subreddit have had to go on high alert, banning posts and comments discussing spoilers for the upcoming season, but it hasn't been enough.
"This subreddit isn't safe either," one fan wrote today.
"Be careful with comments. I hope to god that wasn't a spoiler and just some lame ass troll, but be extremely careful. I suggest not to scroll until the end of comments and do not tap to see comments with negative votes."
Fans of other shows like Ranma and Heartstopper have also been frustrated by the leaks, calling on others to stop spreading links to clips or full episodes both out of respect for one another but also the creators of the shows.
"It took so many hours just to animate 13 seconds," tweeted one person.
"If animators can stand hours to make one episode, I hope anime fans can also wait patiently for it to be released in the best of quality."
But others are engaging with the leaks anyway.
Dandadan, the upcoming anime adaptation of a ShĹŤnen manga about high school kids who use occult powers to fight aliens and fall in love, has already undergone a full cycle of discourse over its polarizing intro that won't actually air until October.
"Hating the Dandadan opening before it's even airing is insane," wrote one fan.
"Stay off."
