01
THE BEGINNING2025
The idea for FANIME begins.
FANIME started with a question: why did anime fans still have to piece together their fandom experience across platforms that were never designed around the full culture?
← ABOUT FANIMETHE FANIME™ JOURNEY
EST. 2025 / STILL BUILDING
This didn'thappen overnight.
From an idea between two anime fans to thousands of community members, interviews, partnerships, events and a growing platform - this is the story as it happened.
Follow the journey↓JOURNEY
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01THE TIMELINE
From “what if?”to look how far we've come.
We're documenting the milestones - the big ones, the messy ones, the public ones and the moments that helped turn FANIME into what it is becoming.
02
COMPANYSEPTEMBER 2025
FANIME™ officially takes shape.
What began as an idea became a real company, with Blue and Sajida building toward an anime-first platform centered on community, content, creativity, participation and discovery.
03
BUILDLATE 2025
The first version starts becoming real.
Early product development begins. Features, visual direction and the larger FANIME ecosystem start moving from concepts and mockups into a working platform.
04
COMMUNITYJANUARY 2026
The first FANIME community starts forming.
Early users begin testing FANIME, giving feedback and helping shape the experience before public launch.
05
BETA2026
FANIME enters beta.
The platform expands through beta testing as the team continues developing social features, community experiences, activities, messaging, creator tools and more.
06
GROWTHSPRING 2026
The community reaches thousands.
What started with a small group of early supporters grows into a community of thousands of anime and manga fans.
07
EXPANSIONSUMMER 2026
The vision gets bigger.
FANIME continues evolving beyond a social platform into a broader anime ecosystem spanning community, gaming, activities, creators, rewards, shopping, partnerships and real-world experiences.
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PARTNERSHIPSSUMMER 2026
The ecosystem starts expanding beyond the app.
FANIME begins developing relationships with creators, businesses, vendors, community organizations and partners that can become part of the growing ecosystem.
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MILESTONESEPTEMBER 13, 2026
FANIME goes public.
FANIME celebrates its official public launch alongside the FANIME Anime Met Gala in Dallas - bringing the online community into a real-world experience.
02PRESS + CONVERSATIONS
People startedasking about the story.
Interviews and conversations have given us the chance to talk about why FANIME exists, what we're building and where we want it to go.
PRESS ARCHIVE
Interviews + features coming here.
We'll add every FANIME interview, podcast, article and feature to this archive as the journey continues.
03BEHIND THE BUILD
The timeline isn'tonly the highlight reel.
Building FANIME has meant testing, rebuilding, debugging, changing plans, learning new things and solving problems we didn't know existed until we got there.
We want the journey to reflect that too. The progress matters more because there was real work behind it.
04RIGHT NOW
THE STORY IS STILL BEING WRITTEN.
We're nowherenear finished.
Every new feature, partnership, creator, community member, event and milestone becomes another piece of the FANIME story.
NEXT CHAPTER
Come seewhat happens next.
NEXT