Manga Productions

Country: Saudi Arabia

Founded: 2011

Team Size: 51-200

Platforms: Mobile, console

Status: Active

Website: https://mangaproductions.co.jp/en/

Overview

Manga Productions is a Riyadh-based anime, comics and entertainment company, a subsidiary of the Misk Foundation since 2017. It is led by CEO Dr. Essam Bukhary and has a Japanese arm, Manga Productions K.K., founded in Tokyo in April 2018.

It co-produces anime with Toei Animation, distributes series including Captain Tsubasa and Grendizer U, and works with partners such as KADOKAWA, Production I.G and Dynamic Planning. In games it acts as a publisher and licensor in the Middle East and North Africa.

Its best-known game is Future’s Folktales: Hopper Quest, a free-to-play mobile game based on its own animated series, launched in 2024. The studio signed a publishing agreement with Nine66, a Savvy Games Group subsidiary, in September 2022 for MENA publishing. The development studio wasn’t named and was described only as led by Saudi talent.

Manga also holds publishing and distribution rights in the region for Grendizer Space Adventures: Feast of the Wolves, The Smurfs 2: Prisoner of the Green Jewel and Flashback 2, which it showed at its XP event in Riyadh in 2023. Its Japanese arm lists publishing and distribution deals in the Middle East for Dynasty Warriors: Origins, Nioh 3 and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

Games

• Future’s Folktales: Hopper Quest
• Grendizer Space Adventures: Feast of the Wolves
• The Smurfs 2: Prisoner of the Green Jewel
• Flashback 2

Key people

• Dr. Essam Bukhary - CEO