Anamana Opens Japan Hub to Produce AI-Made Anime Micro-Serials

A local hub built on agentic AI production

Anamana describes itself as an integrated platform and production ecosystem for AI-native micro-serials. Under the new partnership, Anamana Japan will pair local creative talent with Anamana Studio, which the company calls its proprietary agentic AI production suite. The aim is a high-volume pipeline of original, animated micro-serials for Japanese and global audiences.

Anamana points to the market as part of the rationale. It says the global market outside China for vertical 9:16 mobile entertainment is surging past $5 billion, and that Japan is a powerhouse for serialized visual narrative and popular media.

The hub is led by Yota Tsunoe, Head of Business, and Masashi Kawamata, Head of Creative. Kawamata partly conceived the project. He pitched the idea of a localized Japanese hub after working as a filmmaker in the global Anamana 100 Creator Incubator.

What creators and studios are offered

Anamana Japan is building a local ecosystem of independent writers, directors, production teams, studios and IP holders. Their task is to deliver a continuous stream of commercially viable micro-serials to the Anamana platform.

Tsunoe said creators in Anamana Japan's local variant of the Anamana 100 incubator receive funding, production tools and direct access to Anamana's global audience. He added that local studios developing independent projects can use Anamana Studio to produce vertical content with unprecedented efficiency.

Kai Pan, Head of Marketing Communications at Anamana, said the company is providing local storytellers with "the capital, software, and global reach" needed to turn ideas into commercially successful anime micro-serials. According to Anamana, its production platform lets human storytellers make high-fidelity serialized video with up to 97% lower capital, time and manpower costs.

The first slate of titles

The initial Japanese slate covers revenge, dark fantasy and supernatural Boys' Love (BL) themes. The announced titles are:

• I Transferred to Break the Boss: a young woman forced into a contract marriage to save her father's factory transfers to an all-male technical school to take her fiancé's son hostage.
• The Center Who Built the Empire She's Now Tearing Down: a former idol returns to reclaim her stage and take revenge on her husband.
• The Headless Knight: a disgraced knight strikes a marriage bargain with the witch who revived him, in order to recover his stolen head from a jealous king.
• The Wolf Samurai I Killed Off: a game-world BL series in which a writer is pulled into his own video game.
• On Cat Island, There Is No Escaping Love: a contemporary fantasy BL romance set on an island where cats turn into men after dark.
• The Failed Shinobi Marked for Execution Is Loved by the Strongest: a ninja transmigration romance about a condemned shinobi.

Distribution and what comes next

Titles made under the partnership will premiere on the Anamana mobile app for iOS and Android, localized across 15 languages. Anamana, founded in 2025, also says micro-serials can be distributed through third-party video services such as YouTube or TikTok.

For Japanese creators, studios and IP holders, the announcement signals a funded route into vertical, AI-assisted production with international reach. Those interested in co-production or in acquiring Anamana Studio licenses can find details at anamana.com. The company has not given release dates for the first titles.