N LITE is a media company and anime studio based in the U.S. and Tokyo. It has appointed four industry veterans to its board, including former Disney Television Animation vice president Jay Francis, as it develops an original anime slate led by the fantasy epic MFINDA.
N LITE runs its original anime development in public. The studio is developing works inspired by African stories, including the film MFINDA, and shares pre-production material to build audience interest before release. CEO Christiano Terry has said early sharing helps original works compete in a market where, by the studio's account, only one in seven new anime series in 2024 was not based on a prior work.
The flagship project is MFINDA, described as an original fantasy epic made with partners including GKIDS, JuVee Productions, Miniature Geant and Jaden Smith. N LITE says it is expanding across feature films, TV, consumer products and publishing.
On October 14, 2026, the studio named four industry veterans to its board of directors, among them Jay Francis, a former Disney Television Animation vice president. The board is being built around the problem N LITE says defines its business: making international anime co-productions work across Western and Japanese production styles.
One story in this set reports on a mobile game called Fruit Mountain Lite, released by BeXide for iOS and Android. Nothing in the other stories connects that release to the studio, and it is not treated here as part of N LITE's slate.
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Oct 14
N LITE, a media company and anime studio based in the U.S. and Tokyo, has appointed four industry veterans to its board of directors, including former Disney Television Animation vice president Jay Francis. The appointments come as the studio expands across feature films, TV, consumer products and publishing, led by its flagship original fantasy epic MFINDA, made with partners including GKIDS, JuVee Productions, Miniature Geant and Jaden Smith.
Sep 9
N LITE is developing original anime inspired by African stories, including the film Mfinda, with public pre-production to build audience interest. CEO Christiano Terry says early sharing helps original works compete in a market where only one in seven new anime series in 2024 was not based on a prior work.
Aug 29
BeXide released Fruit Mountain Lite for iOS and Android on August 27. The free-to-play version of the paid puzzle Fruit Mountain adds a voice for main character Art-chan, performed by Yuki Yomichi, and includes online rankings with a separate leaderboard for Lite players.