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MENA streamer Shahid expands anime offering via TV Tokyo, Toei & Aniplex deals

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) media giant MBC Group has struck an expanded deal with a variety of anime studios and production houses in Japan to take more content into the region. MBC’s streamer Shahid has taken exclusive rights in MENA to TV Tokyo’s Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, which is a 52-episode series based […]

Toei Animation exec boards Sinking Ship to lead MENA sales

Canadian kids firm Sinking Ship Entertainment has hired Toei Animation’s Karine Rubin to lead sales across Europe. Rubin becomes director of sales for Europe at the Odd Squad firm and will be responsible Middle East and Africa as well, reporting into department heads Kate Sanagan and Marilyn Kynaston. She was most recently film sales manager […]

Netflix bolsters anime slate

Netflix has unveiled a slate of twelve anime series. Since launching in Japan, the SVOD service has sought to acquire a significant slate of anime films and series, and last year got into original programming from the genre with the Production I.G.-created Perfect Bones. That show is part of the slate, but will now be […]

Zag’s Miraculous toon travels the world

French producer Zag has shopped its upcoming animated series Miraculous, Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir to a raft of international broadcasters. Disney EMEA, TF1 in France, ABC in Australia and EBS in Korea will all transmit the 3D CGI show, which follows on from the original LadyBug series. The show follows a pair of Parisian […]

Broadcasters get the LadyBug from PGS

Globosat’s kids platform Gloob in Brazil, the ABC in Australia and Télé-Québec have all acquired animated series LadyBug. The 26x26mins show, which is a copro between France-based Zagtoon and Method Animation alongside Japan’s Toei Animation, was originally commissioned by French commercial broadcaster TF1. LadyBug follows a pair of Parisian high school students who use magical powers […]