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Key Takeaways
- Megan Thee Stallion is launching an unique anime sequence on Prime Video with Carl Jones, the creator of “The Boondocks.”
- The undertaking was confirmed at DreamCon 2025, the place Megan appeared in full cosplay and teased its distinctive model.
- As a longtime anime fan, Megan brings her ardour and imaginative and prescient to an area the place Black creatives are not often centered.
Anime lovers, the wait is nearly over: Megan Thee Stallion confirmed her much-anticipated anime sequence is on the way in which. Throughout 2025’s DreamCon, she revealed that the present, which can drop on Prime Video, was made in collaboration with none aside from Carl Jones, the producer behind “The Boondocks.”
“Shoutout to [Jones]. We actually did our factor,” she informed the viewers in her Yoruichi Shihōin cosplay. The Houston native added, “We took a very long time placing this collectively and it’s lastly coming, so you may solely think about how we [are] coming with this anime. Megan Thee Stallion and Carl Jones? What the hell!”
Although the anime doesn’t have a confirmed launch date but, it will be Megan’s second undertaking with Prime Video when it drops. Followers may keep in mind the streaming service debuting her documentary In Her Phrases — by which she opened up about dropping her mom, her progress as an artist and extra — final yr. If that collaboration is any indication, the anime’s manufacturing high quality needs to be top-notch — plus, Megan positively is aware of her stuff.
“You ain’t by no means seen an anime like this ever in your life,” she emphasised.
In spite of everything, she’s an enormous anime fan herself. Her self-titled album housed tracks like “Otaku Scorching Woman,” which featured an intro from Adam McArthur (the English voice of Yuji Itadori from “Jujutsu Kaisen”). She’s additionally cosplayed iconic characters loads of instances, together with Bruno Bucciarati on the 2024 Crunchyroll Awards, Boa Hancock for the promo of her monitor “BOA,” and most notably, Usagi Tsukino from “Sailor Moon.”
New music from the Grammy Award-winning artist can also be on the invoice for 2025. She beforehand confirmed that we’ll be getting MEGAN: ACT III, which could embody a collaboration with Doechii. “That’s on my album want listing, however I actually don’t have any track [for her] proper now,” she stated throughout an Instagram Dwell, per REVOLT. Then, in April, Megan gave followers a style of what is to come back with “Each time.”