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Netflix's Best New Show Lands Another 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score

DAN DA DAN If you're looking for great Netflix shows to watch and don't mind expanding your horizons a bit, there's a new show in Netflix's top 10 list that's going to be worth checking out. It's racked up a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score for two seasons in a row, and it has 90%+ audience scores to boot. That show is the anime DAN DA DAN, or Dandadan, however you want to format it. The manga series was released in 2021 and is still running. This Netflix anime adaptation premiered in 2024, and now season 2 has arrived in 2025 here. Both have perfect critic scores, making it tied as one of the highest scored animes on the entire service. And as I said, audiences do not disagree. Here's a synopsis of the series: The show is classified as a 'Shōnen anime,' a popular story structure in the genre, and generally has been thought to target young men in the market. But there are plenty of fans of DAN DA DAN of all stripes. DAN DA DAN The original season of DAN DA DAN was successful on Netflix, where it was the most-watched anime series on the service from July to December in 2024, racking up 19.6 million views. That led to a season 2 and that's currently #5 on the service. That's even in the US, and Netflix has boasted that many, many viewers are now dipping into anime in the region. DAN DA DAN being #5 more than two full weeks after launch is a significant achievement. So, do these numbers mean a season 3 is coming? Well, even before this, that was already happening. There's no release date yet, but it's confirmed that yes, a season 3 has been greenlit and will arrive some time either in 2026 or 2027, depending on the production schedule of the studio. It should cover the 'Space Globalists' arc of the manga, and there is plenty of source material to continue to adapt from here. Netflix has found a whole lot of success with anime and other animated productions, and continues to invest heavily in the genre either through licensing or its own original projects. DAN DA DAN is just the latest, and it no doubt has a bright future ahead of it on the platform. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.