CyberAgent has announced a business alliance with animation studio MAPPA, as well as an investment in the latter’s parent company MHD.
“By combining MAPPA’s animation production capabilities with the expertise the CyberAgent Group has built through its various media, game, and advertising businesses, the two companies will work together to strengthen their ability both to create anime and to deliver it to audiences,” says the press release. Those audiences include viewers outside Japan.
The two companies will “explore collaboration across a wide range of areas, from planning and production to broadcasting and streaming, games, merchandise, and events.”
In a comment from the press release, MAPPA president and CEO Manabu Otsuka said that “we have come to realize how important it is to work closely with partners who bring different strengths and to think together, beyond the interests of any single company, about what would make the experience better for the people who enjoy our works.”
Founded in 1998, CyberAgent is currently involved in multiple fields including media, IP, internet advertising, and games. Animation-wise, it set up the CA-Cygames Anime Fund with subsidiary Cygames in 2017, founded Animation AI Lab in 2023, and Studio Kurm (led by Yaiba: Samurai Legend and Ranking of Kings animation producer Maiko Okada) and CA Soa (led by former Sunrise producer Masakazu Ogawa) in 2025. This year, it made CyPic (formerly known as CygamesPictures), previously a Cygames subsidiary, its consolidated subsidiary.
Some of the other businesses under CyberAgent’s umbrella include streaming platform ABEMA, which announced the original anime initiative Project PRISMation last December and hosts the ABEMA Anime Festival; vertical comic company STUDIO ZOON; game developer Nitroplus; figure brand SHIBUYA SCRAMBLE FIGURE, and anime global marketing subsidiary CA America.
MAPPA, which was founded in 2011 and is currently known for producing anime like Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Hell’s Paradise, Dorohedoro, the Ranma 1/2 remake, and Attack on Titan Final Season, has in recent years launched a music label, announced a partnership with Netflix, and absorbed animation studio CONTRAIL (which was previously an affiliated company).
Source: Press release
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