In conjunction with the launch of the Arab and International Talent Competition, on Thursday evening in Riyadh, the Manga Production Company of the Mohammed bin Salman Corporation (Misk) inaugurated a new project for “Grendizer” under the name PROJECT-G, with a number of Japanese global partners, including Dynamic Planning, which owns the rights Grendizer.
This partnership was announced during the season (Gamers on the Boulevard) in the city of Riyadh, where a group of international pioneers of “animation” and manga, and a wide range of local and international media, attended. Great astonishment of the audience and visitors.
And Dr. Essam Bukhari, CEO of Manga Production Company, told (Makkah) that we believe in inspiring future children and the nature of creative content capable of creating generations. For example, the series (Legends in the Coming of Time), the first Saudi work, which achieved 100 million views and the echo of wide spread In the global platforms of Japanese and Chinese, both in their own language and in addition to Standard Arabic, and then presented Saudi children thinking out loud regarding their future wishes to be astronauts and solar energy engineers, in addition to their desire to be generous like Hatem Al-Tai and brave like Antar Al-Absi, our children today are our hopes. In the future and we are all keen to provide them with content from our culture and heroes from our personalities and values in order to compete with the East and the West, we are able to do that to invest in our youth and creativity. This is a dream we are all working on in a manga production, and our success will not be measured in one or two years, but will be measured in the next 30 to 40 years. In her homeland and do everything in her power to unleash her thought, succeed and innovate in the world, and regarding the level of dubbing for the projects of previous (anime) characters, he went on to say: We brought the emperors of Arab voices to perform the dubbing and we stipulated that the championship roles be through our Saudi youth to enable them, Also, there will be an approved version in the Saudi dialect to highlight the culture of our language to the world.
And regarding the reason for choosing the character (Grendizer) from Japan and why no character was chosen from any other East Asian country famous for the “anime” characters that children follow, he stressed that it is deeply important to us that the character that the choice is determined to be full of values and standards The right thing is, we most importantly have the refinement of the “anime character” with a distinctive value in line with our aspirations for the Saudi generations in the near and not distant future.
In the same context, he commented: “We are pleased to announce today this unprecedented partnership with Japan regarding the ancient character “Grendizer”, which inspired many generations for more than 40 years from the Arab and international audience. Manga Productions has previous and successful experiences in production. This partnership in the new “Grendizer” project is considered a quantum leap in the field of business for Manga Productions. We will also make sure, through the competition we presented, to give the opportunity for Arab and international talents to participate in their creativity in this project.”
On this occasion, the child Yassin Ahmed shared with us, saying: I knew the character (Grendizer) through my father, who was motivating us to watch this character in its old version, I was not excited to watch it, but I learned from my father that it was their favorite character at that time. To be a serious personality and close to reality and the virtual future, and through it I know other cultures and physical sports such as karate for self-defense, which I learned because of them and reached an advanced stage by obtaining the orange belt within a few months, and I consider it the best education method that provides me with knowledge of many Future sciences, for example, my interest in some “anime” characters made me actually produce special videos for them on some social media platforms, so I directed them to suit my imagination, which motivated me to be creative in my fantasies and inspired by other new characters, so I created a new character from reality What I saw, and the current applications we were able to draw, and I hope to find Arab applications that we were able to draw to participate and compete with my generation all over the world.
In the context of the event, Manga Productions announced that the public and Arab and international talents will have the opportunity to contribute to this partnership, as Manga Productions will launch a global competition to design a robotic vehicle inspired by the hostile spacecraft known as “UFO” from the world of Grendizer, with the possibility of using it in the new project, making it A unique experience at the Japanese production level, in addition to the opportunity to win a cash prize for the first three winners, and more details regarding the competition will be released on the @NextGrandizer account in social media.
Regarding this previous step of its kind, the creator of the “Grendizer” character is looking forward to the audience’s participation. Mr. Joe Nagai said: “I am pleased to bring back the Grendizer project, which I have been looking forward to for a long time, and I am excited to announce this partnership in Riyadh, where the best Japanese experts will gather to make something wonderful. Stay tuned.”
It is worth noting that the science fiction series “Grendizer” began on October 5, 1975 and lasted for 74 episodes. The series was shown in the early eighties on Arab television stations, and was a huge success in the Arab world in terms of views. Dubbing is one of the most important reasons for the success of the Arabic version, as the able artist Jihad Al-Atrash played the role of “Diskey”. All special projects “Grendizer” stopped following being shown in Japan and the Arab world.
In turn, the Director of Marketing, Distribution and Business Development at Manga Productions, Eng. Abdulaziz Al-Naghmoush commented: “We are proud of Manga Productions with this announcement. This partnership is evidence of confidence in the Saudi youth and their capabilities in the field of distribution, marketing and global production. This cooperation will also culminate in the participation of Saudi talents. Which proved to us that it is able to enter and compete globally.
