Anime legends, producer Masao Maruyama and director Gisaburō Sugii, as well as U.S. animation producer and distributor Gkids, have joined global multimedia company N Lite and N Lite Japan to produc…
and N Lite Japan to produce “Mfinda,” a first Afro-anime film which will be the subject of an in-depth first look at June’s Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festival.
N Lite Japan, led by CEO-Producer Shin Koyamada and its president Shigeru Igari, will spearhead the development and production of “Mfinda” with Maruyama and Studio M2 in Tokyo. Maruyama has joined the board of N Lite Japan to build the company’s in-house 2D hand drawn animation studio for international co-productions and feature films.
Established to bring untapped, authentic stories from the Black and Indigenous imagination to life for a worldwide audience, N Lite has trademarked “afrime” as a term to describe the merging of Japanese anime and storytelling from Africa and the African diaspora. It plans to produce content from a wide-ranging franchise-driven slate of animated and live action IP.
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