The popular anime 86: Eighty-Six has been removed from both Crunchyroll and Netflix in multiple regions.
If you go to the old Crunchyroll page or the Netflix page for the series, you’ll find that it has been quietly removed. We’ve reached out to both platforms for a comment, though this is likely due to the license expiring.
Following this, fans have reported that sales of the Blu-Ray, “86 EIGHTY SIX the Complete First Season“, have been completely sold out across various online stores including, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Barnes and Noble.
Following the series being delisted, fans who have been eagerly looking forward to season 2 have had their hopes crushed.
86: Eighty Six started as a light novel by creator Asato Asato with illustrations by Shirabii, with its first publication back in 2017. It was later adapted to a manga from 2018 onwards and got an anime that ran from 2021 through 2022.
We live in an era of unreliable streaming services and digital ownership. If we rely solely on the cloud to preserve content, beautiful anime, made with love and care, risk being lost to the void.
Streaming services are essentially landlords who could raise the rent and change the locks at any moment. We can’t always expect the publishers or animation studios to maintain backups either. So it is up to us, fans and collectors, to do our part.
Good on the fans of Eighty-Six for taking it upon themselves to purchase the physical Blu-Ray release for the anime. Here’s the official synopsis of the series, via Crunchyroll:
Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools.
Do not let art vanish into the void. Preserve your favorite anime on physical media. Ensure that no matter what happens to the digital landscape, the stories you love survive on your shelf.
