The Project
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This project is fully developed: show bible, episode outlines, 24 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 children and tweens aged 8-16, set in a fictionalized Edo-period Japan. Two best friends leave their mountain village to undo a curse their community helped cause. 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.
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. 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-four original songs with lyrics and placement, and a mapped season two and three sitting behind it. It's ready to be picked up.
Every piece of art and every song here is AI-generated. 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
- ●24 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
- ●AI-generated woodblock print character portraits (8 total)
- ●Hero landscape and world art
- ●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
- ●Every piece of art and every song on this site is AI-generated in some way. 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.