MBC Group and TokyoPop launch MBC Anime Initiative

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 29, 2023
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Saudi Arabia’s biggest media company MBC Group has teamed up with anime publisher TokyoPop to create the MBC Anime Initiative.

MBC Group, which is also the biggest media firm in the Middle East, said it is doubling down on its commitment to the popular anime vertical, expanding its anime content on Shahid and introducing an investment fund for anime production. The companies announced the deal at the Anime Japan event in Tokyo.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.