N Lite’s ‘Mfinda’ is Coming to Anime Expo 2025

In what will be the first of many coverage pieces for this year’s upcoming Anime Expo, media company and anime studio N Lite will be hosting a special panel to share more about the forthcoming anime film Mfinda!

Get ready to discover MFINDA — and dive into the groundbreaking forthcoming manga and highly anticipated anime feature film. Step into a captivating world where a 13-year-old Congolese girl named Odi is transported to a primordial forest of spirits, gods and ancestors.

Created by: Patience Lekien & Christiano Terry
Production Companies: Studio N LITE, Studio M2, GKIDS, JuVee Productions
Producers: Masao Maruyama, Christiano Terry, Shin Koyamada
Director: Giaburō Sugii
Co-Director: Arthell Isom
Screenplay by: Donald H. Hewitt, Mika Abe, Christiano Terry

Join the creative staff for a behind-the-scenes look and discussion on producing the world’s first anime film based on Congolese folklore with an international production team of Black and Japanese animators. There will also be a special video message from Jaden Smith, who has exciting news to share exclusively during the panel. Check out more information below: 

Event Name: MFINDA: A Journey Between Worlds, presented by N LITE
Date: Friday, July 4
Time: 5:00PM – 5:50PM PT
Location: 403AB

Definitely keep an eye out not only for this panel but for N Lite as a whole as they are an incredible Black-owned media company and anime studio that now operates a growing multinational producing pipeline that includes their subsidiaries N LITE Japan in Tokyo and N LITE Africa in Lagos, Nigeria. N LITE is currently building an animation studio in Tokyo.