Netflix’s Most Watched Original Animated Movies and Series

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KPop Demon Hunters is essentially the most watched Netflix Unique animated film for the reason that engagement experiences started, and a preschool detective present is essentially the most watched Unique animated sequence. These are the 2 headline findings from a trawl by way of each Netflix Engagement Report revealed thus far, and there are loads extra surprises additional down each lists.

October twenty eighth is World Animation Day, which marks the primary public screening of Émile Reynaud’s animated projections in Paris again in 1892. It felt like the appropriate excuse to reply a query we get requested so much: once you add up each half-yearly report Netflix has launched, which of its personal animated titles have really been watched essentially the most? Impressed by Nielsen’s personal findings (the place Netflix got here out fairly poorly, it have to be mentioned, however there are large caveats as to why – specifically they use uncooked viewing minutes and titles with massive again catalogs relationship again a long time are likely to carry out higher) for the most-watched animated titles, we wished to look ourselves. 

Netflix has been publishing its What We Watched engagement experiences since December 2023, overlaying six-month home windows from January 2023 onwards. Seven experiences are actually out, taking us by way of the tip of June 2026. Every one lists hours seen, runtime and views for each title that cleared 50,000 hours, which makes it the very best public dataset now we have on what individuals are actually watching. You possibly can search the whole thing your self with our engagement report search device.

Each lists rank by views, the metric Netflix itself has used as its headline quantity since late 2023. Views are hours seen divided by whole runtime, so a 90-minute film watched to the tip as soon as counts as one view. We present hours alongside so you’ll be able to see the place the 2 measures disagree.

Just a few floor guidelines value figuring out earlier than you scroll:

• Solely Netflix Originals are included. Licensed titles like The Boss Child, Sing and The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film all out-watched a lot of the Originals under, however they belong to another person and have a tendency to come back and go. We’ve included titles Netflix distributes as Originals in a lot of the world, reminiscent of Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Again Evolution and The Seven Lethal Sins.
• Sequence numbers are grouped throughout each season. That is the massive one. A present’s determine under is the entire for all of its seasons mixed throughout all seven experiences, not its finest single season. That rewards long-running reveals with deep libraries, and it’s why a 2015 DreamWorks sequence can sit above a 2024 hit.
• Motion pictures are feature-length solely. Shorts and specials like Sing: Thriller, The Boss Child: Get That Child! and The Dangerous Guys: A Very Dangerous Vacation rack up large view counts as a result of they’re 12 to half-hour lengthy, so we’ve left them out.
• The window is January 2023 by way of June 2026. Something launched earlier than 2023 solely counts what it was watched in that interval, so Klaus and BoJack Horseman are being measured on their again catalogue years, not their launch.

High 5 Netflix Unique animated films

1. KPop Demon Hunters (2025): 648.7 million views

No contest. Sony Footage Animation’s demon-slaying woman group has greater than two and a half instances the views of the subsequent Unique on this record, and that’s with solely two full reporting home windows behind it. 1.08 billion hours is the form of quantity normally reserved for entire sequence libraries, not a single 100-minute film. It’s already Netflix’s most-watched movie of any variety, animated or not, and the soundtrack’s chart run saved folks coming again lengthy after the primary weekend.

2. Leo (2023): 241.1 million views

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Adam Sandler’s 74-year-old classroom lizard was the largest animated film Netflix launched in 2023, and it has saved ticking over ever since. Its 430 million hours put it effectively away from every part besides KPop Demon Hunters, and it is likely one of the strongest arguments but for Netflix’s long-running Completely happy Madison deal paying off in animation in addition to reside motion.

3. Again to the Outback (2021): 145.1 million views

The shock of the highest 5. The Australian creature comedy got here out in December 2021, so none of its launch window counts right here. Each considered one of its 145 million views comes from 2023 onwards, which makes it the very best instance on this record of a household film discovering a second life within the library. Youngsters rewatch, and Netflix’s advice engine clearly is aware of it.

4. The Sea Beast (2022): 136.7 million views

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Chris Williams’ Oscar-nominated seafaring journey sits fourth on views however third on hours, with 271 million. Its two-hour runtime drags the view rely down, which is an effective reminder of how the metric works. Like Again to the Outback, all of that is post-launch viewing, and it has aged into considered one of Netflix’s most dependable animated catalogue titles.

5. Swapped (2026): 130.8 million views

The most recent title on the record and the one to observe. Swapped arrived in 2026, so it has had at most one six-month report back to work with, and it has already racked up 130.8 million views and 222 million hours. On that trajectory, it can move Again to the Outback and The Sea Beast the subsequent time Netflix publishes, and it ought to settle in as a transparent quantity two behind KPop Demon Hunters.

The total high 25 animated films

Function-length Netflix Unique animated movies, ranked by views throughout all seven engagement experiences (January 2023 to June 2026).

A few issues soar out. Sony Footage Animation accounts for 4 of the highest 9 (KPop Demon Hunters, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Want Dragon and Vivo), which says so much about why Netflix retains going again to that partnership. And the 2 SpongeBob spin-offs, Saving Bikini Backside and Plankton: The Film, each cleared 84 million views regardless of modest evaluations, which is the Nickelodeon library doing precisely what Netflix pays for. IP and studio muscle = wins!

The High 5 Netflix Unique Animated Sequence

Yet one more reminder earlier than the names: each determine right here is the present’s whole throughout all of its seasons, added up over all seven experiences. A sequence with six seasons on the service will get credit score for all six.

1. The Creature Circumstances (2022): 222.9 million views

If you happen to don’t have a preschooler at dwelling it’s possible you’ll by no means have heard of it, and that’s moderately the purpose. The animal detective sequence has quietly turn into Netflix’s most watched Unique animated present with 710 million hours throughout its run, greater than Massive Mouth, Arcane and BoJack Horseman put collectively. Netflix retains commissioning extra of it for a motive.

2. CoComelon Lane (2023): 191.2 million views

CoComelon Lane: Season 2. (L-R) Brian Drummond as JJ’s Dad and Cruze McKinnon as JJ in CoComelon Lane: Season 2. Cr. NETFLIX © 2024

The licensed CoComelon is essentially the most watched animated sequence on Netflix full cease, with 862 million views, so it’s no shock that Netflix’s personal narrative spin-off lands this excessive. CoComelon Lane solely launched in November 2023 and is already second amongst Originals, which makes it the quickest riser on both record.

3. Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020): 167.8 million views

DreamWorks’ five-season dinosaur journey completed in 2022, so like Again to the Outback on the film facet that is all library viewing. Add its sequel Jurassic World: Chaos Principle, sitting at quantity 14 with 84.3 million views, and the franchise clears 250 million views on Netflix since 2023.

4. Sonic Prime (2022): 142.5 million views

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Three seasons of Sonic Prime landed between December 2022 and January 2024, so nearly all of its run falls contained in the reporting window. It’s the strongest efficiency by a online game adaptation on both record, forward of each Arcane and The Cuphead Present!, and a helpful knowledge level for anybody questioning why Netflix retains shopping for Sega and Nintendo-adjacent properties.

5. Massive Mouth (2017): 126.8 million views

The one grownup present within the high 5 and the longest-running scripted Unique Netflix has ever made. Eight seasons give it lots of runtime to build up hours, and 594 million of them is greater than every other grownup animated sequence on the service. Its finale in Might 2025 clearly despatched loads of folks again to the beginning.

The Full High 25 animated sequence

Netflix Unique animated sequence, all seasons grouped, ranked by views throughout all seven engagement experiences (January 2023 to June 2026).

Sure, Arcane is 18th. Its 434.6 million hours would put it eighth if we ranked by hours, however its episodes run lengthy, and there are solely 18 of them, so the view rely lands decrease than its fame suggests. The identical goes for The Seven Lethal Sins, which has the second-most hours of any present right here. If you’d like a way of how the highest of the chart seems with licensed titles included, CoComelon, Peppa Pig and Masha and the Bear all clear 400 million views, and Paw Patrol alone has practically 2 billion hours.

Takeaways

Preschool wins on sequence and Sony wins on films. 9 of the highest 15 sequence are aimed toward under-sixes, and the one grownup reveals to crack the highest 25 are Massive Mouth, BoJack Horseman, Disenchantment, Document of Ragnarok and Arcane. On the movie facet, the Sony Footage Animation deal has delivered the primary title and three extra within the high 15, and nothing else Netflix has tried in animation comes near that hit charge.

The following engagement report, overlaying July to December 2026, ought to land in early 2027. Count on Swapped to climb, KPop Demon Hunters to maintain including to a lead that already seems unassailable, and the standard December rush of Christmas specials to push a couple of new names into the decrease half of the film desk.

All figures are taken from Netflix’s revealed What We Watched experiences. You possibly can dig into any title your self with our engagement report search.