AnimeCon Group develops original stories from India, Nepal and the wider subcontinent and tells them through manga, webtoon and animation for readers worldwide. It brings together sixteen years of AnimeCon’s community, an original-IP studio, the Asian Academy of Manga & Anime and the Agnes + Martin talent agency.
Workshops
LoungeManga is a visual grammar: panel rhythm, expressive characters, long serial stories. Readers everywhere already know how to read it. The subcontinent has some of the richest storytelling traditions anywhere, yet almost none of it reaches global readers as comics. AnimeCon Group exists to close that gap.
Myth and folklore, and also the hill town, the cricket ground, the coaching centre and the megacity at night. Stories from India, Nepal and their neighbours, told by people who grew up inside them.
We use manga the way filmmakers use the language of cinema: a form anyone can learn and no single country owns.
Digital-first serialisation, with translation and international co-production planned from the first chapter.
A story travels through a chain: a comic finds readers, then becomes a series, a game, merchandise and a live event. Whoever owns the story earns at every step. For sixteen years our community gathered around stories owned elsewhere. We are building the ones it will gather around next.
Characters, worlds and stories developed and owned in-house.
Serialised publishing to build an audience and test a story cheaply.
Series, shorts and films through co-production partners worldwide.
Apparel, collectibles, games and brand tie-ins against owned characters.
Conventions, screenings and fan experiences.
Build the story first. Then let the series, the merchandise and the convention follow it.
Each unit was built separately over the years. Under AnimeCon Group they work as a single pipeline: train creators, develop IP with them, represent the talent, and launch to an audience we already have.
The centre of the group. We develop original manga and anime properties rooted in the subcontinent, hold the rights, and bring in partners for publishing, animation and licensing on terms that keep ownership with us.
AAMA trains the artists, writers and animators who make the IP. Set up through a partnership tie-up, it gives young artists across the subcontinent a structured path into manga and animation craft.
Our talent and creator agency. Agnes + Martin represents artists and personalities across brand work, appearances and content, and manages the creators who emerge from AAMA and AnimeCon.
Our community since 2010: anime, manga, cosplay, streetwear and music across ten cities in India and Nepal. It now runs as small, profitable talent-search events and community spaces, where new artists are found and our stories meet readers first.
Every edition of AnimeCon used to start from zero. In the new loop, each part feeds the next and the IP keeps the value.
AnimeCon opened the category in India in 2010. The community, guest network, partner relationships and trademarks it built are the platform’s starting assets.
AnimeCon Group holds the convention trademarks that define anime fandom in India, consolidated alongside the academy and the agency.
The flagship convention brand, in continuous use since 2010.
The category descriptor for anime conventions in India.
Further convention and pop-culture marks held within the NR Group portfolio, with details for licensing partners on request.
Nitesh Rohit pioneered the anime convention in India, founding AnimeCon in 2010, when the fandom lived on Facebook groups and borrowed hard drives and no one had yet built it a stage. Over sixteen years he took it across ten cities in India and Nepal, brought international animation, games and comics professionals to Indian audiences, and built one of the country’s longest-running fan communities.
He is a senior entrepreneur and strategy consultant with more than twenty years in enterprise development, negotiation and advisory work. He founded Whitebase Consultants in 2009, advising governments and enterprises across Bihar, Nagaland, Sikkim and North Bengal on the creative economy, AVGC-XR, MSME clusters and education. He also created the Creative Economy Forum, and is a writer of poetry and screen stories himself.
AnimeCon Group is the venture that brings these threads together: a storyteller’s conviction that the subcontinent’s stories belong on the world’s bookshelves, and an operator’s patience to build the pipeline that gets them there.
We are looking for partners who want a stake in original stories from the subcontinent and a direct line to the readers who will love them.
Co-produce subcontinental stories for international audiences, with a partner that already holds the readership.
Serialise AnimeCon Originals and AAMA-trained creators, in translation, for readers worldwide.
License characters, sponsor AnimeCon, or work with Agnes + Martin talent.
Deliver manga and anime training and creator programmes through AAMA.
Bring us a story, a studio or a stage. We will build the rest.