Netflix suffering a “devastating” anime leak, Arcane Season 2 and other titles shared online

Full episodes of some long-awaited animated series, including Arcane Season 2, Heartstopper Season 3, Dandadan, Ranma ½, and Terminator Zero, have leaked online, according to multiple sources. There are also claims that the Spongebob Movie and Mononoke Movie have also been leaked.

Millions of dollars may be erased after Netflix appeared to have suffered a major data breach, with full episodes of anticipated series spilled online.

According to IGN, the leaked episodes are low-quality and include burnt-in time stamps, a watermark “For Internal Use,” and annotations for music and sound effects. The clips first appeared on social media, and then the content emerged on torrent websites.

🚨 Netflix is facing the Biggest Leaks Crisis in Animation History.
Episodes from The Following Titles have been leaked:
- Arcane Season 2
- Dandadan
- Ranma 1/2
- Terminator Zero
- Spongebob Movie
- Mononoke Movie
The company has yet to release any statement about the incident. pic.twitter.com/tCPFPPr0w2

undefined AniTsumi (Anime News) (@AniTsumi) August 8, 2024

Arcane is a highly successful game adaptation that won at least 22 awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards and five Annie Awards. Released in 2021, Season 1 is still rated 28th among the top TV shows on IMDB.

YouTube anime and manga reviewer Jacob Seibers, better known as Chibi Reviews, describes this incident as “the biggest leaking disaster in anime history.”

“I've never seen anything like this,” his tweet reads on X.

For the last 70 hours leak after leak has continued to come out. Its gotten so bad that ARCANE Season 2 had episodes leaked in full as well.

100s of Millions of Dollars is potentially being lost thanks to this and NETFLIX refuses to make a statement.https://t.co/7S3NqwutZO pic.twitter.com/wSaDQPDZrw

undefined Chibi Reviews (@ChibiReviews) August 8, 2024

TheWrap obtained an exclusive statement from a Netflix spokesperson, who claimed that one of Netflix’s “post-production partners has been compromised and footage from several of our titles has unfortunately leaked online.”

The team is working “aggressively” to take the content down.

Anime News Network was among the first to report that anime series had leaked on sites such as 4chan and torrent aggregators. The video clips are low resolutions, such as 640x360 or 640x352.

People saying “360p”.. that’s not the point lol. It’s crazy what’s happened this week. These aren’t just some random Anime either, they’re probably the biggest of the year coming out

undefined Nicholas Light (@NicholasLightTV) August 7, 2024

The leak also affected Crunchyroll. Among the leaked titles is Re: Zero Season 3.

Most of the content was scheduled to premiere this Autumn.