Singapore-based RisingJoy has signed a distribution take care of Japanese firm NTT DOCOMO Studio.
The deal, introduced this afternoon, covers worldwide distribution of the Japanese firm’s content material vertical, together with its anime lineup. RisingJoy mentioned NTT DOCOMO titles “could also be licensed non-exclusively on a title-by-title foundation, with phrases agreed individually for every launch.”
This afternoon, RisingJoy additionally dedicated to producing 30 vertical anime titles by the top of the primary quarter of 2027. The corporate mentioned the primary six titles have already been accomplished and delivered.
The six titles produced beneath the RJOY Originals banner are Hooked on the Darkish Boss, Conceal my secret within the moonlight, Within the hand of the satan, Revenge Membership’s newest order, Locked up, I grew to become unbreakable, And Trendy Cinderella Behind the Lies. The corporate mentioned AI manufacturing instruments had been used on the titles “to attain a scale and cadence that typical animation can’t help on brief budgets.” 4 extra titles are anticipated by the top of 2026.
“Essentially the most profitable vertical sequence right now are live-action ones, and vertical anime continues to be an underdeveloped class,” Cassandra Yang, co-founder and CEO of RisingJoy, mentioned in an announcement.
“We see this as a possibility reasonably than a limitation. Our personal knowledge exhibits that the viewers for anime is smaller in the meanwhile, however these viewers are extra loyal, extra engaged and extra hooked up to the characters, and that is what franchises are constructed on. This can be a strategic class for us, not an experiment.”