Netflix is preparing a December 17 worldwide debut for its eight-episode live-action Kokumin Quiz, known in one announcement as Quiztopia, and continues to build a slate of adaptations from games, webtoons, manga, and its own dramas. Its recent licenses include WWE programming in Japan from October 1, with the terms still unannounced.
Netflix's recent slate leans on adaptation, and the sources differ on what to call the same December 17 release. One announcement calls it Quiztopia, the live-action adaptation of Reiichi Sugimoto and Shinichi Kato's National Quiz manga; another calls it Kokumin Quiz and says it adapts a manga published in 1993 that the production describes as having been called impossible to adapt. Both put all eight episodes out at once worldwide on December 17, with Takayuki Yamada as host K.K., Teruyuki Yoshida directing from a screenplay he wrote with Maggie, and cast including Riko Ishida, Kana Kurashina, Koji Seto, Masahiro Takashima, Eiko Koike, and Renji Ishibashi.
Netflix's drama Downtime began worldwide streaming on September 17, with Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka as rival doctors and all eight episodes released at once. Its production model drew attention: director Yuki Saito spent six months interviewing cosmetic surgery patients and doctors, and Ken Naoko underwent three hours of special makeup before shooting days that began around 3 a.m. Saito said a year of preparation made the makeup possible.
Adaptations from other media continue. Netflix and Sega announced three projects in production on September 15: a live-action Crazy Taxi comedy film, an animated Sonic the Hedgehog series for upper preschoolers, and a live-action crime film based on Stranger Than Heaven. A Diablo animated series is in development with Blizzard, and Outback, based on Yong Sung Choi's webtoon G'day, has a confirmed cast but no release date. WWE programming begins streaming from October 1 in Japan, with details of the arrangement still pending.
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Former showrunner Steve Maeda said on the Trash Taste podcast that Eiichiro Oda rejected an early version of Netflix's One Piece live-action adaptation after a new executive asked for the budget to be cut in half and the season reduced from 10 episodes to eight. Maeda said the revised scripts drifted from the manga, and Oda told Netflix it was not what he had agreed to.
Netflix has replaced Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria with Peter Rice, a former Disney and Fox executive. The company also laid off about 1,000 employees, roughly 6% of its staff, including executives from the unscripted casting and development team. The change comes after co-founder Reed Hastings left the company in June, and months after Netflix formed a partnership with anime studio MAPPA in April.
Jusei Senryaku Osaka will bring the official pop-up store for the Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters to Shibuya, with the Japan event set for within the year. The store has been touring Taiwan since July 2025, when the Taipei stop opened at the Uni-President Department Store DREAM PLAZA, a large mixed-use facility that opened in 2025. A Taichung stop followed in August at Taichung Station, where a former station building with 120 years of history sits beside the modern station. The Kaohsiung event is currently running at the Uni-President Dream Mall Kaohsiung branch. That venue holds the tour's biggest draw: a giant air balloon of the character Derpy, designed by Jusei Senryaku We's Star and unveiled with group partner BCT. The company says the balloon deployment is an Asia first for the work, including for the production team and Netflix. Dates, venue name, admission method, and products for the Shibuya store are not announced.
Netflix is cutting around 1,000 jobs, about 6% of its workforce, the largest reduction since 2022 and one of the notable tech layoffs of the past twelve months. Teams in product, technology, legal, and HR absorb much of the impact. Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos told employees the decision was not easy, and tied it to prioritizing people and resources even as business performance holds up but trails analyst forecasts.
Ryota Miyadate of Snow Man will appear in the Netflix series Did Anyone Say Anything About Me?, which stars Koji Yakusho, is written by Kankuro Kudo, and is planned and produced by Akira Isoyama. Miyadate plays Matsushima, a rookie actor, in a sauna shoot scene opposite Yakusho and Masatoshi Hamada. A still photo of Miyadate at the sauna has been released. The series streams worldwide on October 22.
Koji Yakusho appeared at the completion event for the Netflix series Did Anyone Say Anything About Me? in Tokyo on the 9th. He said an extra, seeing him dirty and bearded for a homeless scene, asked if he was shooting VIVANT. The series, written by Kankuro Kudo and directed by Fuminori Kaneko, follows a forgotten actor. It streams from October 22.
Netflix's The Father Misadventure of Cliff Booth, starring Brad Pitt as stuntman Cliff Booth from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, gets a limited IMAX run from November 25 to December 10. Quentin Tarantino wrote the script and David Fincher directs. The story moves from 1969 to 1977 Hollywood, with Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Peter Weller in the cast.
Netflix will premiere its eight-episode live-action series Quiztopia on December 17, adapting Reiichi Sugimoto and Shinichi Kato's National Quiz manga. A teaser trailer and additional cast were revealed: Masahiro Takashima as Commander Murakoshi, Eiko Koike as producer Shoko Kamijo, Riko Ishida as Marii, Kana Kurashina as Ayako, Koji Seto as Seiji Nanbara, and Renji Ishibashi as Prime Minister Takeshi Gokumazawa. Takayuki Yamada plays host KK. Teruyuki Yoshida directs and co-writes with Maggy.
Netflix will stream the live-action series Kokumin Quiz worldwide starting December 17, with all 8 episodes released at once. Takayuki Yamada plays K.K., the host of the in-story quiz program that has become Japan's supreme authority in a parallel-world setting. The show adapts the manga written by Reiichi Sugimoto and illustrated by Shinkichi Kato, published in 1993, which the production describes as having been called impossible to adapt. Teruyuki Yoshida directs from a screenplay he wrote with Maggie. A total of 16 new cast members were announced alongside the date. Riko Ishida plays Mari, a girl of unknown identity who aims for K.K.'s life, and Kana Kurashina plays Ayako, her mother. Koji Seto plays Seiji Nanbara, an activist plotting the collapse of Kokumin Quiz. Masahiro Takashima plays Murakoshi, captain of the punishment squad, Eiko Koike plays producer Shoko Kamijo, and Renji Ishibashi plays Prime Minister Takeshi Gokumazawa. A teaser trailer was also released.
Netflix's Downtime, starring Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka, depicts the cosmetic surgery industry's hopes and conflicts. Ken Naoko plays Yuriko Sakashita, a 75-year-old widow seeking full-body plastic surgery. Director Yuki Saito said filming was grueling: Ken sometimes arrived around 3 a.m. for three hours of special makeup before shooting began. Ken stayed playful on set, keeping the mood light with jokes. Sakashita also has terminal cancer, so Saito told Ken to lower her voice and speak hoarsely. Special makeup was trial-and-errored to show the surgery's before-and-after. Before the operation, she looks so wrinkled that a character says, "You're all skin and bones." Cast members including Hana Amano and Yumi Adachi underwent transformations without dubbing. Saito said a year of preparation made the special makeup possible, something he called difficult for terrestrial TV dramas.
Director Yuki Saito spent six months interviewing cosmetic surgery patients and doctors for the Netflix series Downtime, which stars Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka. Patient subjects ranged from first-timers to people who had undergone multiple surgeries. Doctors interviewed included staff at Takasu Clinic, which supervised the series, and younger surgeons who opened their own practices. Contact was made through Nekura-chan, who runs a plastic surgery website.
The official VRChat world for the Netflix film Chō Kaguya-hime will open early at midnight on Friday, September 25, in the tutorial area, as part of the Tsukuyomi Thanksgiving Festival. The first 3D models of Sakayori Iroha and Tsukimi Yachiyo were shown for the first time. An online live, Tsukuyomi Thanksgiving Festival ~Super Delicious Pancake Party~, is set for 21:00 on Saturday, December 26.
Netflix's Downtime began worldwide streaming on September 17 with all eight episodes released at once. Mayu Matsuoka stars as plastic surgeon Fumi Numata, with Riisa Naka as cosmetic surgeon Rin Toyama, who directs Toyama Beauty Clinic. A character relationship chart and visuals for seven key figures were published. The series is directed by Yuki Saito, written by Junya Ikegami, and its soundtrack by Yudai Bando went on digital distribution the same day.
Netflix will stream Buying a Man with One Year to Live worldwide on November 5, with Shibasaki Kou and Akaso Eiji in the double lead. Eight additional cast members were announced: Tsutsui Michitaka, Nishida Naomi, Hamada Mari, Narumi Yui, Moriguchi Yoko, Miyase Ryubi, Ozaki Maka, and Kondo Koyama. Key art and a trailer are out. Kazama Taiki directs; Okada Yoshikazu wrote the screenplay.
WWE Japan announced on September 15 that WWE programming will begin streaming on Netflix from October 1. A promotional image released with the announcement names three shows: Raw, SmackDown, and NXT. The announcement says the details of the arrangement will be announced soon, and a follow-up update is promised. The image carries the Netflix logo alongside the WWE mark and points viewers to the Netflix Japan account. Both announcements come from WWE Japan's own account, which posted the same image and the same line about details to come. No information has been given about what form the streaming arrangement takes, which regions it covers, or whether the three named programs will stream live, on demand, or on a delay. WWE is a US-based professional wrestling promotion and sports entertainment company. Further specifics, including any schedule or catalogue detail, are still pending.
Netflix and Sega announced a partnership on September 15 to adapt Sega game properties into film and television. Three projects are in production. A live-action comedy film based on Crazy Taxi is the first, with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand writing the script. Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher, who produced the Sonic the Hedgehog films, produce with Sega's Toru Nakahara. A new animated Sonic the Hedgehog children's series is aimed at upper preschoolers, with Carlos Stevens and Nakahara producing. A live-action crime film based on Stranger Than Heaven, the Ryu ga Gotoku Studio game set in early 20th-century Japan, is also in development, with Nakahara producing. Genres span live-action comedy, kids anime, and live-action crime action. No distribution dates were announced.
Blizzard Entertainment and Netflix are developing an animated series set in the world of Diablo. The project was announced during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2026, which streamed on September 13 Japan time and took place September 12. Blizzard confirmed the series is in development with Netflix and said further information will be shared as production progresses. The announcement was part of Blizzard's presentation of its plans for the franchise. Blizzard's official BlizzCon recap describes the project as a new animated series set in the world of Diablo. So far the two companies have confirmed only the partnership and the setting within the Diablo universe. The Diablo franchise is set primarily in Sanctuary, a world caught between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells. The same ceremony brought the announcement of Diablo V for Spring 2029, a game Blizzard says takes place in a Sanctuary where Diablo has already triumphed.
Netflix confirmed production on Friday of Outback, a live-action series with the working title, based on Yong Sung Choi's webtoon G'day. Kyung Hong plays Sion, who travels to Australia after his older sister's sudden death and investigates what happened to her. Jun-Yeol Ryu, Ho-yeon Jung, Ji-an Won, and Justin H. Min also star. No release date is set.
Netflix is developing a live-action television series based on Atlus and Sega's Persona video game franchise, according to a report from Variety. The project has Christopher Monfette attached as writer, showrunner, and executive producer. Monfette's credits include the final two seasons of Star Trek: Picard, 12 Monkeys, and 9-1-1. The series will be produced by 21 Laps Entertainment, the company behind Stranger Things, and Story Kitchen, the production outfit founded by Sonic the Hedgehog film producer Dmitri M. Johnson. Sega's Toru Nakahara, who produced the Sonic movie series, will also serve as an executive producer. Additional executive producers include Shawn Levy, Robert Atwood, Dan Levine, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson. Variety's report did not specify whether the adaptation will follow the story of a specific Persona game. The Persona franchise, which launched in 1996 as a spin-off of the Shin Megami Tensei series, has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. The franchise includes six numbered titles and multiple spin-off games. Netflix declined to comment on the report. The series would join Netflix's growing catalog of video game adaptations, which includes The Witcher, Arcane, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Netflix and Toho have released the main trailer and key art for the eight-episode series "Gas Man," a reboot of Toho's 1960 special effects film "The First Gas Man." The series, directed by Shinzo Katayama and executive produced by Yeon Sang-ho, follows detectives Kenji Okamoto (Shun Oguri) and Kyoko Kono (Yu Aoi) as they pursue a killer who can turn his body into gas. The trailer shows the Gas Man, played by debut actor UTA, announcing a press conference where he will reveal his methods and next target. Suzu Hirose and Kento Hayashi play video streamer siblings, and Yutaka Takenouchi plays a former yakuza-turned-company president. Filming ran from September 2024 to April 2025 across about 120 locations, with location scouting covering over 1,000 sites. The production achieved the first full closure of Tokyo Station front for a Japanese film shoot after 18 months of negotiations. The series streams worldwide on Netflix from July 2.
Netflix announced on Thursday that its animated adaptation of Capcom's Devil May Cry video game franchise will receive a third and final season. The announcement follows the May 12 premiere of Season 2, which entered Netflix's Global Top 10 list. Showrunner Adi Shankar revealed that the series was always planned as a three-part story modeled after Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. He stated that Season 1 represented Inferno, Season 2 Purgatorio, and the upcoming Season 3 will be Paradiso, together forming what he calls the "Force Edge Saga." Shankar described the project as "a movie trilogy disguised as a television series." The first season, produced by Studio Mir, debuted in April 2025 with eight episodes and accumulated 21.7 million views in 2025. Season 2 has reached 6.4 million views in its first two weeks. The English voice cast includes Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante, Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary, Hoon Lee as White Rabbit, the late Kevin Conroy as VP Baines, and Chris Coppola as Enzo. Shankar first announced his acquisition of the series in November 2018.
WIT Studio's The One Piece will stream on Netflix starting February 2027, the production committee announced on the series' official X account. The first season consists of seven episodes that run roughly 300 minutes in total, and all seven will be released at once. The season adapts about the first 50 chapters of Eiichiro Oda's manga, covering Luffy's early journey through the East Blue saga and ending at the Baratie arc where he meets Sanji. Ahead of the premiere, the team released concept art from episode 1 that shows Luffy as a child in Windmill Village at Partys Bar with Shanks, Benn Beckman, and Makino. The remake was first announced at Jump Festa '24 in December 2023. Director Masashi Koizuka leads the production, with assistant director Hideaki Abe, series composition by Taku Kishimoto, and character design shared by Kyoji Asano and Takatoshi Honda. Animation producer Ryoma Kawamura oversees the project. In a recent interview with the YouTube channel Ai Show, producer Shinji Wada said Oda supported revisiting the anime to connect with newer audiences.