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This project is fully developed: show bible, episode outlines, 25 original songs, and character art. We want to see it become a real animated series. If you're a producer, studio, or collaborator who wants to talk, we'd love to hear from you.
Kabu and the Seeds in the Wind is a 12-episode animated musical for kids through young teens, set in a magical-realism version of feudal Japan where heroes and yokai aren't just the stuff of legend. Two best friends leave their mountain village to undo a curse they set loose themselves. One has a turnip for a head and too much love for folk hero stories. The other has a kunai collection and no patience for his overconfidence. Each episode drops them into a new location where they face a demon that's really just a human flaw that found a willing host.
Our heroes learn early that they can't beat a demon by fighting harder. They can hold one off, but the seed only comes out once they've played detective in each town, found the person whose flaw it's feeding on, and helped them with the human problem underneath. The songs are part of the storytelling too: every one moves the plot forward or says something a character couldn't say any other way.
We both grew up on Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the show shares DNA with K-Pop Demon Hunters in that both are musicals built around celebrating the actual culture that inspired them. The look draws on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and sumi ink brushwork, with the folk-art feel and muted palette of Over the Garden Wall and a textured, paper-collage finish that makes the world feel lived in. Each episode is centered on a real Japanese location and its history, places we traveled to while living in Japan, so the research isn't just decorative.
Season one is complete: twelve episodes with full beat breakdowns, eight characters with worked-out arcs and flaws, twenty-five original songs with lyrics and placement, and a mapped season two and three sitting behind it. It's ready to be picked up.
We used AI tools to prototype the world early on. The character designs you'll see on the character pages are original work by character designer Angel Revuelta, and the episode art and the songs are still AI-generated prototypes. Neither of us comes from film, animation, or television. We work in AI, across startups and larger tech companies, and this project is where we actually get our hands on new tools for something we care about, rather than just watching the AI space move from a distance.
This site is the show itself, mapped and ready to be read.
✓ What Exists Now
- ●12-episode Season 1 outline with full beat breakdowns
- ●8 main characters: backstory, arcs, relationships, and fatal flaws
- ●25 original songs with lyrics, placement, and vibe notes
- ●12 real-world Japanese location research notes (one per episode)
- ●Supporting cast for all 12 episodes (motivation + flaw per character)
- ●Themes & lessons tracked per episode
- ●Original character designs for the six leads by character designer Angel Revuelta: colour designs and expression sheets
- ●A creators' bible for Season 1, with season two and three arcs mapped
- ●AI-generated episode art from our early prototyping
- ●This devlog site — routing, character pages, episode pages, soundtrack
◎ Who We Are
Two friends telling a story we couldn't stop thinking about.
- ●Both work in AI, across startups and larger tech companies, not in film, animation, or games
- ●Lived and traveled across Japan, where every location in the show is somewhere we actually stood
- ●Built this during our travels and on nights and weekends, alongside full-time jobs
- ●We used AI tools to prototype the world early on. The character designs are now original work by a human designer, and the episode art and songs are still AI-generated prototypes. The project has been as much about learning new skills as about creative expression.
We just want it to exist somewhere other than our hard drives.