MediBang Announces Strategic Partnership with Anime-Planet
MediBang has announced a strategic partnership with Anime-Planet, providing free manga chapters to read on Anime-Planet's online reading portal. The initial launch includes chapters from a wide variety of genres such as sports, horror, fantasy, and BL.
Yuko Hoshino, head of MediBang's overseas distribution (TraDe), said, “We're thrilled to be partnering with Anime-Planet on this exciting initiative. Anime-Planet is one of the best places for anime and manga fans to gather and discuss the latest releases with a plethora of unique features, such as seasonal challenges and user-driven recommendations. We hope that the site's online reading portal can act as an avenue for fans to discover new and original stories with our selection of titles!”
Kim Cameron, the founder of Anime-Planet, said, “We are so excited to undertake this journey with MediBang. In addition to their manga catalog, MediBang is well known in the community thanks to content creator tools like MediBang Paint, so we're glad that this partnership can help support the industry and fans who want to create their own stories. We're excited to continue growing our online reading portal so that fans can continue to discover, track, and rate manga in a way that supports the industry.”
Founded in 2001, Anime-Planet was created by fans, for fans. Anime-Planet offers the ability to track the anime you've seen, and the manga, webtoons, and OELs that you've read; has personalized anime and manga recommendations; the ability to legally read and watch content online through industry partnerships; and has a vast content database for anime and manga, tags, characters, and staff. Anime-Planet's online reading portal currently has chapters through partnerships with Lezhin Comics, J-Novel Club, bilibili Comics, and MediBang. Learn more at Anime-Planet.com.
Founded in 2014, MediBang offers localization and distribution services for over 8000 titles globally in partnership with more than 80 manga publishers and game developers. It also develops the popular digital art and manga creation software MediBang Paint as well as ART street, an online community for art and manga fans.
