Animoca Brands Japan and Quidd Collaborate to Bring Japanese IPs to the West

Quidd, a digital collectibles and NFT marketplace, and Animoca Brands Japan, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, have established a strategic alliance to deliver popular Japanese intellectual properties (IPs) to the Western market. Through this partnership, Quidd’s cutting-edge collector marketplace technology and Animoca Brands Japan’s vast expertise of Japanese intellectual property ties will be combined.

The cooperation aims to provide fans of manga and anime a personalized service that enables them to acquire and amass one of a kind digital collectibles, such as NFTs, that showcase their preferred brands and characters. This will include a range of digital media, including digital art, ornaments, and keepsakes.

Quidd CEO Emphasizes Growing Global Demand

The CEO of Quidd, Michael Bramlage, emphasized the growing demand for manga and anime material throughout the world. He was excited to be working with Animoca Brands Japan, a well-known global Web3 firm that licensors well-known Japanese intellectual property. Through this partnership, fans will be able to collect without difficulty, regardless of where they live, and the possibilities of digital collectibles will be highlighted.

Through a service based on Quidd’s technology, Animoca Brands Japan intends to bring collectibles of popular anime and manga throughout the world. The eight million registered collectors that Quidd now has, most of whom are based in North America and Europe, will work flawlessly with this service.

With things available as both on-chain NFTs and off-chain digital collectibles, the marketplace will provide collectors flexibility. With this method, customers may start collecting without requiring a credit card, bitcoin, or cryptocurrency wallet. Furthermore, customers will have the ability to turn some off-chain digital items into NFTs.

The CEO of Animoca Brands Japan, Daisuke Iwase, expressed excitement about the technological and business collaboration with Quidd. Given Quidd’s well-established proficiency in digital collectibles, strong proprietary technology, and compliance requirements, Iwase believes the partnership will open up new frontiers for Japanese intellectual property in the Western market.