{"id":2216,"date":"2022-12-01T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/mbc-group-secures-rights-hit-anime-series\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:13:54","slug":"mbc-group-secures-rights-to-hit-anime-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/mbc-group-secures-rights-to-hit-anime-series\/","title":{"rendered":"MBC Group Secures Rights to Hit Anime Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MBC Group has secured the rights to various anime series, including TV Tokyo\u2019s <em>Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War<\/em>, for its streaming platform Shahid.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Shahid features hundreds of anime titles, including <em>Bleach<\/em>, <em>One Piece<\/em>, <em>Attack on Titan<\/em>, <em>Tokyo Ghoul<\/em>,<em> Initial D<\/em>, <em>Gin Tama<\/em>, <em>Hunter x Hunter<\/em>, <em>Legend of the Galactic Heroes<\/em> and <em>Belle<\/em>, as well as the Japanese-Saudi Arabian action fantasy film <em>The Journey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>MBC Group has secured the exclusive MENA rights for <em>Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War<\/em>, the 52-episode Japanese series based on the<em> Bleach<\/em> manga series by Tite Kubo and a direct sequel to the anime <em>Bleach<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The company has extended a partnership with TOEI Animation to add more episodes of<em> One Piece<\/em>, based on Eiichiro Oda\u2019s manga series of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, following the success of <em>Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai<\/em> on Shahid, MBC Group has expanded its partnership with Aniplex, which will see more than 200 hours of Aniplex content come to Shahid. This includes <em>Fate\/Stay Night<\/em>, <em>Sword Art Online<\/em> and <em>Gurren Lagan<\/em>n.<\/p>\n<p>All of the titles will become available on Shahid before the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Tareq Al-Ibrahim, director of content for SVOD at Shahid, said: \u201cAnime is extremely popular in the Middle East region\u2014particularly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\u2014so needless to say, we are incredibly excited to be making new additions to our ever-expanding anime catalog on Shahid, bringing new and hit titles that audiences will love exploring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBC Group has secured the rights to various anime series, including TV Tokyo\u2019s Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, for its streaming platform Shahid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":2217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[555,556,557,558,559,560,115,561,539,562,563,564],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-aniplex","tag-attack-on-titan","tag-belle","tag-bleach","tag-hunter-x-hunter","tag-legend-of-the-galactic-heroes","tag-mbc-group","tag-one-piece","tag-shahid","tag-tareq-al-ibrahim","tag-toei-animation","tag-tokyo-ghoul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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