Singapore Nights

Singapore Nights is an Asian animated television series produced by Original Animation Studio (the in house studio at the time for then-named AniNick). It is a futuristic crime story that follows a group of investigators who solve various crimes involving multiple entities.

Original series
Production of the series started in September of 2009, when then-AniNick Asia ordered another original series that'll focus on a crime mystery story. Meaghan Valerie, an American scriptwriter who grew up and now resides in Singapore, was approached by producers and the head of the channel to develop the story. In return, Valerie would get rights to produce books, games, and other media based on the animation. Valerie agreed and started working on a concept.

The show was officially announced in December of 2009, when animation work officially started. Animation for the first season took until February of 2011 to finish.

A second season was greenlit in September of 2011 and would be in production for a May 4, 2013 start date, to finish the series and wraps up almost every storyline.

Dubbing
Dubbing for the original series was produced by Epcar Entertainment and recorded at Magnitude 8 Post, with some additional dubbing done at Odex in Singapore, which acted as a co-producer for the anime.

Revival
Five attempts to revive or reboot the show happened between 2016 and 2023, with Valerie being approached or involved in two of those attempts. Only the last effort in 2022/2023 was accepted after negotiations between AnimeCore, Comet, and Valerie.

After negotiations, a eleven episode revival of the series, titled Singapore Nights II was announced in February of 2023 by AnimeCore Asia and Comet Animation Asia. Meaghan Valerie, the original creator and writer, was brought on to develop the new series. Connor Maddox, a British-American mystery author and scriptwriter was brought along to develop mystery scenarios and the concept for the storyline arc for the season.

Replacing Madhouse and Manglobe as animators will be Tiger Animation, DR Movie, Edge Animation, and Firebasket Asian Animation Studios.

Dubbing
Dubbing for the revival will be done at Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Los Angeles, with some additional dubbing done at Odex in Singapore, which again act as a co-producer for the anime.

Distribution
Comet Distribution and Firebasket Media Publishing & Distribution control the worldwide distribution and streaming rights for both the original series and the revival.

Streaming
In February 2023, a few days after the announcement of the revival, Comet Distribution announced that Crunchyroll, HiDive, Tubi, Peacock, Hulu, Crave and Crackle have picked up USA streaming rights while Crunchyroll and HiDive have picked up global streaming rights.

The original series have since been available on on those same platforms as well.