SINGAPORE - With five new anime titles announced and a strong slate of anime films and series coming out next year, streaming giant Netflix is positioning itself as the new, global home for Japanese anime.

At the Netflix Anime Festival 2020 held last month (October) in Tokyo, it announced the following premieres for 2021: stop-motion series about the popular bear character Rilakkuma - Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure; time-travel comedy Thermae Romae Novae; action-packed survival story High-Rise Invasion; a spin-off of the popular manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, titled Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan; and the slice-of-life comedy The Way Of The Househusband.