Studio N LITE is an anime studio based in the U.S. and Tokyo creating prestige film, tv, manga, and products inspired by culture from around the world.
We’ve built a bridge between award winning Hollywood talent, Japanese anime legends, and untapped stories from the African diaspora to bring magical storytelling to life for a global audience.
MANGA
The highly anticipated multi-volume MFINDA Manga, a prequel to the anime feature film, will be serialized by Kodansha’s Biblio Sirius Magazine starting in Fall 2026.
The three volume epic fantasy manga will feature hand drawn, hand painted illustrations by Studio N LITE art director Tom Lintern, storyboarded by Koma Warita and written by Christiano Malik Terry.
Read the manga introduction today and sign up to our newsletter for more updates!
ANIME FILMS
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MFINDA
A 13-year-old Congolese girl is transported to the Mfinda, a primordial forest of spirits, gods, and ancestors. There she joins another young girl from a different time and embarks on a journey to find her way back home during a time of conflict between humans and the spirits of nature.
(In Production)
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WEBE: Spirit Detective
When a young detective returns to St. Helena Island to reconnect with his southern roots, he is thrust into solving murders of Gullah Geechee people that have awakened a vengeful Boo Hag spirit seeking justice.
(In Development)
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Chiure: Child of the Sea
A young Mozambican girl’s coastal community is being taken over by a ruthless foreign fishing company. She discovers a mysterious amulet connected to an ancient sea God that helps save her home.
(In Development)
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Jungle Emperor Leo: Path of Two
Meri, a young girl from Ethiopia, meets a tenacious lion cub named Leo and they become fast friends. Soon after, they are thrust into a conflict between their fathers that leads to a war between humans and the animals of Leo’s jungle.
A re-imagining of the classic manga by Osamu Tezuka.
(In Development)
ANIME SERIES
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IFE: Secret of the Star Child
In the aftermath of destruction, a mysterious orphan boy made from stardust harnesses an ancient power to rebuild the lost Kingdom of Ife.
(Series, In Development)
LATEST NEWS
U.S.-Japan anime studio N LITE has struck a co-development partnership with Japanese publishing giant Kodansha to produce a serialized manga based on its feature film “Mfinda,” with the debut set for Kodansha’s Biblio Sirius Magazine in 2026.
The manga, written by N LITE founder Christiano Terry and drawn by studio art director Tom Lintern, in collaboration with Japanese storyboard artist Koma Warita, functions as a prequel to the “Mfinda” feature, expanding the Congolese mythology and sacred forest of spirits and gods at the center of the film.
The siblings have teamed up with N LITE, a Black-owned media company and anime studio based in the U.S. and Tokyo.
Cameroonian-American Philadelphia 76ers center and former NBA MVP Joel Embiid has joined the producing team of “Mfinda” an upcoming anime feature from the Tokyo- and LA-based studio N LITE.
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