Anime streaming big Crunchyroll has partnered with the Media & Leisure Affiliation of India (MEAI) to grow to be the title sponsor for the WAVES Anime & Manga Contest (WAM!) 2025.
As a part of the sponsorship, Crunchyroll has launched a Creator Improvement Grant geared toward supporting rising Indian expertise in anime, manga, and webtoons.
The newly established grant will present monetary help to the winners of WAM! throughout a number of classes to help within the growth of unique mental properties (IPs).
The grant quantities are specified as:
- Manga (Scholar Class): INR 25,000
- Manga (Skilled Class): INR 25,000
- Webtoon (Scholar Class): INR 25,000
- Webtoon (Skilled Class): INR 25,000
- Anime (Scholar Class): INR 50,000
- Anime (Skilled Class): INR 50,000
Along with the grants, Crunchyroll will assist the general winners of the WAM! 2025 Finale, designated “Workforce India,” throughout their participation at Anime Japan 2026.
“This partnership with Crunchyroll marks a pivotal second for India’s creator group,” stated Ankur Bhasin, Secretary of MEAI. “By investing immediately in rising artists, Crunchyroll helps flip desires into actuality and giving a robust international platform to Indian voices in anime, manga, and webtoons.”
WAM! is India’s first nationwide initiative centered on selling unique Indian IPs in anime, manga, webtoons, and cosplay. It serves as a key element of the World Audio Visible Leisure Summit (WAVES) 2025, organized by MEAI and supported by the Ministry of Info & Broadcasting, Authorities of India.
WAVES 2025, India’s largest summit for the Animation, Visible Results, Gaming, Comics, and Prolonged Actuality (AVGC-XR) and media industries, begins at present, Might 1, and runs till Might 4 on the Jio World Conference Centre in Mumbai. The summit is scheduled to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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