The Walt Disney Company announced that it will enter the anime market, that is, it will dedicate itself to the distribution and co-production of this content for next year, also as part of the expansion of the Disney + platform in the Asia region and the Pacific. However, these productions will be exclusive initially for Japan but could consider later at the international level.
During the APAC Content Showcase event, the company announced that licenses have been acquired streaming of shows like Time Machine Blues Tatami Tomihiko Morimi, Black Rock Shooter Dawn Fall of illustrator Huke and Summer Time Rendering of Yasuki Tanaka.
And that’s not all, since the company also reported that it is co-producing an adaptation of the Disney mobile game: Twisted-Wonderland, which was released in Japan in 2020, in which characters inspired by villains coexist within an academy. most iconic of Disney and that was drawn by Yana Toboso, creator of Black Butler.
It is clear that after the success that Disney + had with the Star Wars Visions series, it is already working with several Japanese animation studios, in order to develop original projects and adaptations of some well-known stories.
Although there is still no release date for these anime series, it is likely that Disney will give the same attention to detail and they can give us a result full of quality.
Disney undoubtedly does not want to be left out of anime, which has gained a lot of popularity in recent years, so the arrival of this type of animation on its Disney + platform, may bring us not only new works but may also license some productions classics and be liked by your audience.
