Anime is not just entertainment, but a thriving global phenomenon - a bridge between imagination and reality, art and culture. Over the past decades, the anime industry has flourished thanks to its fans, and now, with the advent of $ANIME, fans are no longer just spectators, but have become the owners, creators, and architects of the anime worlds they love.
A Revolution in Anime Ownership
$ANIME is the world's first true Culture Coin, a revolution that transforms the $30 billion anime industry into a community-owned creative network. As the global anime industry is expected to exceed $60 billion by 2030, $ANIME provides unprecedented opportunities for fans and creators to shape the future of anime together. $ANIME is also a creative economy that transforms fan passion into tangible power, turning cultural energy into real value.
Culture Coin: When Meme Meets Meaning
Traditional Memecoins have form without substance, while Altcoins (山寨币) lack the Meme and culture needed to cultivate a strong community. In contrast, $ANIME combines community, creativity, and economic freedom, allowing anime enthusiasts to directly become the owners of the culture they love, redefining fan culture and driving deeper engagement and shared ownership.
Who is Azuki?
Azuki is a premium Web3 anime IP, founded in 2021 with the aim of creating a decentralized anime brand that allows the NFT community to co-create and contribute to the IP and narrative content, forming a new community-driven entertainment industry model.
Through the creation of 100 sub-communities, a large fan base and commissioned artworks, as well as community-led events across the globe, the Azuki community has strongly demonstrated that it is possible to cultivate a new IP born in Web3 in the rapidly evolving anime world.
Focusing on community, narrative, and technology, Azuki positions itself as a leading Web3 anime brand. Currently, it is working with the Animecoin Foundation to redefine the meaning of the modern anime fan, in this new era where anyone can join the anime community, contribute to its development, and become an owner of the cultural phenomenon unfolding globally.
Azuki has also collaborated with some top international brands, such as the F1 Red Bull Racing team (Azuki's imagery appeared on a Red Bull race car driven by the driver during the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix), LINE FRIENDS (Azuki collaborated with LINE FRIENDS to launch a Web3-enabled physical toy that combines LINE FRIENDS' Brown Bear with Azuki's BEANZ IP, which was exhibited at the LINE FRIENDS flagship store in Gangnam, Seoul), and K11 MUSEA (during the golden skateboard auction, Azuki sold 8 golden skateboards, generating around $2.5 million in total revenue).
Additionally, Azuki has collaborated with Dentsu's anime production department to launch a three-episode anime series titled "The Waiting Man" (The Waiting Man), inviting Gorō Taniguchi (whose works include Code Geass and the top 5 box office hit One Piece: Red) to direct. The first episode of "The Waiting Man" premiered in April 2024 and quickly went viral on YouTube and Weibo. If Azuki holders watch the episode through the azuki.com browser and link their wallet and two specific NFTs (including an Azuki NFT), they will see their Azuki appear in a scene in the first episode.
In September 2024, Azuki announced the acquisition of the Anime.com domain, which is currently not open to the public, and users need to apply to be placed on a waitlist to gain early access. Additionally, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Fate, Anime.com has released a limited-edition digital sticker collection.
About the Animecoin Foundation
The Animecoin Foundation is focused on $ANIME and its ecosystem, dedicated to building a unified and thriving global anime community. Its mission is to provide the necessary infrastructure and governance to transform anime culture into an interconnected Web3 network. Leveraging cutting-edge blockchain solutions, the Animecoin Foundation ensures transparency, fairness, and accessibility for fans, creators, and IP holders. Together with Azuki, the Foundation is driving the next wave of anime innovation and interaction.
Empowering the Global Anime Community
Anime has over 1 billion fans worldwide and has become one of the fastest-growing entertainment industries globally. In 2021 alone, over 50% of Netflix users watched anime. However, the fan experience has long been unidirectional and fragmented - but this is changing.
Through $ANIME, fans and creators can become co-owners of a new creative ecosystem where fans, creators, IP holders, and other participants collaborate to co-create the next chapter of anime.
You are invited to be a part of this grand endeavor. $ANIME is a call to action for the anime community to go beyond passive consumption and actively participate in shaping the new era of this world-class cultural phenomenon.
The world is becoming increasingly anime-ized, and $ANIME will accelerate this transformation.
$ANIME Token Economics
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$ANIME is planned to be officially launched in January 2025 (but the exact date is yet to be determined).
