Middle East and North Africa media and entertainment giant MBC Group has expanded its partnerships with major anime studios and production houses in Japan to strengthen its anime offerings on its Shahid streaming platform.
As part of this move, the group has acquired a number of series, including TV Tokyo’s recent 52-episode hit Bleach: Thousand Years of Blood Warbased on bleaching Manga series by Tite Kubo about a teenager with the ability to see ghosts.
The series, which recently returned after an eight-year hiatus, is streaming on Shahid at the same time as Japan and the US. All previously aired seasons of the show are also currently available on Shahid.
MBC Group has also renewed a partnership with Toei Animation for future episodes of One piecethe long-running blockbuster series based on Eiichiro Oda’s manga series of the same name.
The company also announced its partnership with Sony Corp.’s anime production company Aniplex. after the success of the anime adaptation of Extended Rascal doesn’t dream of Bunny Girl Senpai on Shahid.
The new deal includes 200 hours of new Aniplex content about Shahid, including fate / stay night, Sword Art Onlineand Gurren Lagann.
Tareq Al-Ibrahim, Director of Content for SVOD at Shahid, commented, “Anime is extremely popular in the Middle East region – particularly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – so naturally we’re incredibly excited to be making new additions to ours constantly Growing anime catalog dedicated to Shahid, bringing new and successful titles that audiences will love to explore.”
Shahid’s offering already includes hundreds of anime titles including bleaching, One piece, attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, Initial D, Gin Tama, Hunter X Hunter, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Lovelyas well as the Japanese-Saudi Arabian animated action fantasy film, The trip.