After sailing strong for decades, the One piece Anime struck rough waters on Netflix, the latest data from the platform revealing a decrease in the net audience for its new arc and the franchise as a whole.
By What is on Netflixcurrent performance One Piece: Arc Egghead was disappointing, the first part accumulating a total of 5.6 million views since its release in 2024 and the second part, which was published in 2025, which only obtained 2.6 million views. To put this in perspective, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiba: Arc of the entertainment district Amaté 19.4 million views during the same period, while the new release in 2025, Sakamoto DaysA exceeded 24.4 million views in the first half of 2025 only.
Netflix’s commitment to an anime is on a major drop
On the franchise side, things do not seem much more brilliant for the hats of the straw hat either. While the One piece Franchise as a whole is the third most watched on Netflix with 174.1 million total views between 2023 and 2025, the data once again reveals a decreased trend. After attracting 77.9 million views in 2023 and 71.4 million in 2024, the franchise only accumulated 24.8 million views in the first half of 2025, indicating a significant drop in engagement with more recent content. Interesting, Naruto was the most dominant anime franchise on the platform for the first half of 2025, despite having new content.
Regarding Arc of Egghead IslandThe most likely reason for the drop in hearings is the significant delay in its publication calendar on the platform. New episodes of One piece are broadcast on Sunday in Japan and are available for simultaneous broadcast on Crunchyroll on the same day. However, these new episodes did not release on Netflix before the following Saturday, faced with a delay of six full days. It should also be noted that no new episodes of One piece Anime was broadcast from October 2024 until the broadcasting is resuming in early April 2025, which also probably played in the global commitment to the fall of the franchise.
The fact that the problem lies in the publication strategy is supported by the data, which suggests that the series without this delay can prosper on the platform. Simultaneous broadcasting SlugWho was also available on Crunchyroll, obtained an impressive 27.1 million views, while even an exclusivity Netflix in 2023, Ragnarok record: season 2Pulled 1.6 million views in 2025, competing with the figures for the new brand One Piece: Arc Egghead episodes. This proves that there is a massive audience for the anime on Netflix, despite the crunchyroll with a larger library. However, for a weekly series as important as One pieceSpeed is clearly everything.
It is worrying that Netflix could not capitalize on the success of One pieceThe lively successful adaptation, while streaming data also raises questions about the future of the other major investment of Netflix in the franchise – the next remake of Wit Studio, entitled The only room. The news on the project has been rare since its announcement, and this lack of information is particularly concerning the previous treatment of Netflix on MoonAnother Wit studio project. While One pieceThe popularity will probably guarantee that the new remake does not steal under the radar as Moon Do, the recent performance of the current anime in progress proves that a pure popularity does not always ensure a high audience on the platform.