While the streaming wars for anime are typically seen as a one-sided conflict with Crunchyroll winning handily via pure attrition, other services like Netflix have shown remarkable resilience. Through careful selection, many of their series have risen above the pack for their respective release cycles. However, Netflix's latest hit anime is representative of their main advantage over Crunchyroll.

Despite two months of waiting for fans outside Japan to stream The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity , the Netflix-original romance manga adaptation has had a killer run on the platform. Its success is in no small part thanks to its impressive promotion, including interviews with Collider . But it also owes its success to capitalizing on a Crunchyroll blind spot.

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