Nippon TV's multiple award-winning series Rebooting to stream on Netflix in APAC countries starting January 19th.

TOKYO – January 19, 2024 – Nippon TV's multiple award-winning series Rebooting will stream on Netflix in APAC countries starting January 19th.

Nippon TV, Japan's leading multiplatform entertainment powerhouse, announced today that Netflix, the world's leading streaming service, has acquired Nippon TV's multiple-award-winning time loop drama series Rebooting (60 min. eps.) to stream in the APAC region.

The series has won multiple awards nationally and internationally, with the most recent one being Best Scriptwriting Award at the Asian Television Awards 2024 held in Vietnam this January 13th.

Netflix will stream the hit series starting January 19th in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and many more countries in SE Asia. Netflix Japan has already started to stream Rebooting in Japan and the series has recorded the number one status on many days of their daily top ten rankings.

Rebooting aired on Nippon TV from January to March 2023, amazing viewers with a completely new twist on the time loop genre and went on to receive Nippon TV's record making number of views on VOD all throughout the year. Due to popular demand, in December 2023 Nippon TV re-aired the full 10-episode series for viewers to binge watch over the holidays as well as made the series available on the national VOD platform, TVer, for a limited time.

Rebooting has received multiple major national as well as international awards, including ContentAsia Awards 2023 Gold Award for Best Drama Series/Telefilm made for a Single Market in Asia, Content Innovation Awards 2023 Best New Scripted Series Non-English Language, Asian Academy Creative Awards 2023 Best Director (Nippon TV's Itaru Mizuno) and Best Trailer, and most recently the Asian Television Awards 2024 Best Scriptwriting (Scriptwriter Bakarhythm).

Keisuke Miyata, Head of Finished sales, said:
“It is the perfect timing for viewers in Asia to view the long-awaited hit series Rebooting on Netflix, after its victories with many major awards. I have no doubt that this amazing time loop series will surely surprise the Netflix audiences throughout APAC.”

Quote from Netflix
Rie Sawaoka, Director of Content, Netflix Japan, said:
“It is our pleasure to bring the Japanese hit series Rebooting to our APAC-based audience. We are extremely proud of our ongoing collaboration with Nippon TV and be able to introduce the award-winning Japanese drama to the wider viewers outside of the country.

About Rebooting
Rebooting is a series where a mundane woman gets the unbelievable chance to redo her banal life. 
Scripted by a very popular Japanese comedian as well as script writer, Bakarhythm, who's forte is his detailed descriptions of the daily events that are extremely relatable and humorous to audiences, the story revolves around a 33-year-old single woman working at the local city hall. One day, she gets hit by a car and dies but finds herself in an empty white room where a clerk files her death and guides her towards a door to her next life…as a giant anteater. If she declines that choice and chooses to re-live the same life she had lived as a human being, but work harder to gain extra points by doing better than her past life, she will again be reincarnated as a human being. She chooses the latter to take control of her karma and reincarnation, and her second go at life begins. However, things do not go as planned and when she dies again and faces the same decision-making process, she decides to re-live her same life once again, only to find out a huge surprise that she is not the only one going through multiple reboots of life.

This time-leap human comedy depicts bizarre daily occurrences at a spectacular scale with an unimaginable ending and has ranked #1 on catch up, SVOD, and AVOD as well as constantly trending on social media.

The script is written by a very popular comedian who is also a successful scriptwriter. His unique style of humor has added an innovative edge to the time travel series genre.
https://www.ntv.co.jp/english/pc/2023/01/rebooting.html

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About Nippon TV
Nippon TV is Japan's leading multiplatform entertainment powerhouse and ratings champion broadcaster, as well as owner of streaming giant Hulu in Japan. Over 90% of its content IP is fully owned by Nippon TV and the company has been active in bringing its content to the international market in the form of anime, ready-made programs, formats, and through co-production partnerships.