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TOKYO EPIC ORIGINAL ANIMATION IP

Forgotten stories become shadows.
Remembered stories become stars.

RIYADH / 2040MEMORY FANTASYSEASON 01
SCROLL TO REMEMBER
02WORLD & PRODUCTION DESIGN
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Forgotten stories become shadows. Remembered stories become stars.

01THE STORY

In a world robbed of stories,
memory itself becomes a weapon.

Riyadh, 2040. Stories forgotten by humanity turn into Shadows and begin erasing reality itself.

Ahmed, 17, inherits his father's Memory Sphere and meets HIKAYA—young guardians carrying the memories of seven civilizations.

They do not protect the past. They protect everyone's right to tell their own future.

07YOUNG GUARDIANS
07MYTHIC BEASTS
12PILOT SHOTS
01STORY THAT MUST SURVIVE
03CHARACTER ARCHIVE

CHOOSE A SIDE

Seven stars—and those
who erase their stories.

CLICK A CHARACTER TO OPEN THE ARCHIVE

03—BCONSTELLATION OF BONDS

TOUCH A MEMORY. FOLLOW THE THREAD.

Every bond leaves
a visible seam.

Choose a character to reveal the trust, conflict and unfinished memories holding HIKAYA together.

TRUST CONFLICT COMMAND MEMORY
MEMORY

AHMED × NADIR

Two answers to the same wound: carry the pain, or erase the story.

SELECT A PORTRAIT TO TRACE ITS BONDS
04THE SEVEN GUARDIANS

MYTH IS MEMORY GIVEN FORM

LAMASSU

古代の記憶を守る、翼を持つ巨獣。アハメドが痛みを受け入れた時、都市を覆うほどの姿で顕現する。

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05WORLD & PRODUCTION DESIGN
RIYADH 2040STORY REALM
HIKAYA background art moodboard
WORLD MOODBOARDRiyadh 2040 / AlUla / Memory Library / Shadow Realm
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RIYADH 2040

A future city where sandstone quarters and towers of light connect through rooftop transit.

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HIKAYA HQ

A base built from an old rooftop broadcast station, with a living memory map flowing across its round table.

03

STORY REALM

Every story ever told coexists here as floating cities, rivers, and constellations.

04

SHADOW REALM

An anti-world where oblivion becomes blank space and black paper, erasing buildings and names.

OBJECTS WITH A MEMORY

Every object tells
a character's past.

MEMORY SPHERE — Ahmed's celestial orb holding the memories of seven civilizations.

HIKAYA props moodboard

AHMED × LEILA

THE MEMORY THAT REFUSED TO DISAPPEAR

They do not protect the past. They protect everyone's right to tell their own future.

06EPISODE 01 / PILOT

THE MEMORY THAT REFUSED TO DISAPPEAR

EPISODE 01 — THE MEMORY THAT REMAINS

Ahmed encounters a Shadow of Oblivion for the first time. Instead of erasing the memory of his lost family, he chooses to carry it forward. Lamassu awakens, and HIKAYA begins.

ACT I — DISCOVERYACT II — PURSUITACT III — AWAKENING
Pilot storyboard sequence one
SEQUENCE 01 — DISCOVERY & PURSUIT / SHOTS 01–06
Pilot storyboard sequence two
SEQUENCE 02 — CHOICE & AWAKENING / SHOTS 07–12
07VISUAL DNA

KINETIC WEST ASIAN FUTURISM

A running camera.
A hand-drawn surface.
Mythic scale.

  • Low tracking cameras and rooftop chases
  • Sculpted silhouettes with hand-drawn surfaces
  • Indigo dusk, amber city light, cyan versus magenta
  • Contemporary youth culture fused with ancient memory