1ST ANNIVERSARY FILM
Games & FilmsMade In-House
Tokyo AI Visuals is an AI-native game and film studio. With our own AI pipeline, we build games and films and take them to the world. Our first-anniversary film is on billboards in New York, Shibuya and Yokohama.
Lucky Star codename
A cyberpunk game starring KANA — the title our whole studio is building right now, in Unreal Engine 5.8.
Steam · planned for mid-May 2027
- Unreal Engine 5.8
- MetaHuman / MetaHuman Animator
- NVIDIA Kimodo
- AI agents
Seven Days,
One Release a Day.
October 18–24. Every day we put one tool or workflow from our film and game productions on GitHub.
Unleash Creation
with AI-Native Power
We are an AI-native studio — born with AI, building with AI. A small, tight-knit team armed with an in-house AI pipeline takes on games and films at the scale of far larger studios. The technology we sharpen along the way goes back to the world as open source, so that anyone can create freely. Technological freedom for every creator: that is the future we are building.
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01AI NATIVE
AI-Native by Design
AI is built into every stage — design, code, art, film and sound. Not a tool, but part of the team.
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02UNLEASH PRODUCTIVITY
Productivity, Unleashed
AI agents handle most of the implementation, while people focus on direction, taste and feel. A small team, multiplied.
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03TECH FREEDOM
Technological Freedom
We open-source the tools we build — local-first, free of cloud lock-in and per-use fees — so that creating stays free for everyone.
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04ONE TEAM
One Team, One Dream
A small, tight-knit team chasing one dream together — deciding fast, building fast, and seeing it through until it reaches the world.
VISIONA future where a small team can make work that moves the world.
We Make and Publish Our Own Games and Films
Tokyo AI Visuals LLC is a game development and film studio in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. We plan, build and publish our own games, apps and original films, and we develop the AI production pipeline behind them in-house — then release it as open source. Right now our whole studio is focused on Lucky Star, a new game in development in Unreal Engine 5.8 and planned for Steam in 2027.
Our Games & Apps
Nine games and one app on the App Store and Google Play, available in 172 countries and regions. Star Maidens reached No. 1 in Google Play's top paid action games in Japan.
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Original Films
Self-initiated short films and character work. Our first-anniversary film screens on billboards in New York, Shibuya and Yokohama, and our films have won 23+ awards.
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Open-Source Pipeline
The tools we build for our own game and film production are open source on GitHub. Audio Studio MCP, our local music and sound-effect generator, passed 300 GitHub stars within two days of release.
→Tokyo AI Visuals at a Glance
Revenue comes from our own products.
- Company type
- Early-stage AI technology startup — developer and publisher of its own game and film IP
- Founded
- October 2025 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
- Products
- 9 games and 1 app on the App Store and Google Play (172 countries and regions), original films, open-source AI production tools
- Flagship
- Lucky Star — in development in Unreal Engine 5.8 · planned for Steam in mid-May 2027
- Revenue model
- Sales of our own products (7 paid games and 1 paid app, one-time purchases of ¥100–¥450), Google AdMob ads in 2 free games, and technical books on Amazon
- Technology
- Unreal Engine 5.8 · MetaHuman · NVIDIA Kimodo · Claude · in-house AI pipeline (MCP servers, generative audio, automated QA)
- Startup programmes
- NVIDIA Inception Program certified partner company · Member of Claude for Startups (Anthropic) · Member of AWS Activate
- Traction
- Star Maidens: No. 1, Google Play Japan top paid action · Yoiyami Relics: No. 3, App Store Japan top paid card games · 23+ awards
Games We Make
World-building from our films, made playable — nine titles we designed and built ourselves, out now on the App Store and Google Play.
From Japan, Out Into the World
Our games and apps are available in 172 countries and regions. Follow the icons on an interactive map to trace the journey of each title.
Original Films
From our own original work — including our first-anniversary film on billboards in New York, Shibuya and Yokohama, and a short film screened across five cities.
More on YouTube — @kanaworks_AI
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About Us
Tokyo AI Visuals LLC is a studio in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, founded in October 2025. We develop and publish our own games and apps, make original films, and research and open-source the AI production pipeline behind them.
Tokyo AI Visuals LLC
A game development and film studio in Nihonbashi, Tokyo — from designing and shipping our own titles to researching the AI pipeline behind them.
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Founder and creator who builds our games, films and tools hands-on — 23+ awards and billboards in 7 cities.
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Certified partner company
We also publish Ouchi Bousai Karte TOKYO, a free disaster-preparedness site
Let's Build What's Next
Publishing partnerships, technology collaborations or press — we'd love to hear from you.
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