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With a new Netflix series streaming on both sides of the Pacific, our reporter ponders what America sees in Japan’s tidying-up master.
Netflix’s CG remake of the classic anime Saint Seiya will include a major change from the original series — the gender of one of the principal characters!
Streaming giant’s U.S.-produced remake of the anime classic is seen be many as trying to improve on perfection.
Many thought Netflix had closed the book for good on its Americanized adaptation of the anime/manga phenomenon, but it looks like they were wrong.
In the relatively new market of video services in Japan, one clearly stands above the rest. But you might be surprised what it is.
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