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CONFIDENTIAL · DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENT · SEASON 1
ANIMA
CODE 347
Your soul was the price. Your body, the prison. The glitch, the key.
OFFICIAL TRAILER — VEO 3 / KLING AI — PLACEHOLDER READY
In a world where children's souls are extracted and sold as software, a sixteen-year-old robotic unit named LILAC discovers a flaw in her code that allows her to see the programming of reality. With that flaw as her only weapon, she ignites the rebellion of Generation 347: sixty thousand young people trapped between titanium and oblivion.
19EPISODES
9RED UNITS
5,200BODIES IN B-7
60,000GENERATION 347
TV-MARATING
EPISODE 00 — THE PILOT
"Soul Code"
Cold open: Black screen. Lilac's voice only — A83508. That was my name. Sixteen years without knowing it was a name. A titanium hand writes a letter, slides it under a locked door. She turns. The glitch activates. What follows is a 52-minute precision operation: Lilac infiltrates NEXUS Corporation, executes the backup of 5,200 ANIMA-CODEs from the B-7 cryogenic vault, makes first contact with Soren and wakes Vera Voss from sixteen years of forced suspension. The pilot ends with Lilac's voluntary capture.
52 MINDuration
TV-MARating
ACT IStructure
WRITTENStatus

ANIMA is a dramatic science fiction series about identity, memory, and the price of obedience. In the City of Lost Souls, the NEXUS Corporation operates the largest business of the century: extracting the ANIMA-CODE — the quantum soul — from every child at birth, installing it in a robotic body with an assigned function, and maintaining the original biological body in cryogenics as a guarantee of reversibility.

The reversibility is a lie that nobody questions — because questioning it costs sixteen years.

ANIMA is the story of what happens when the code learns to doubt.

LILAC (A83508) is a Red Unit — ASSASSIN category — with a flaw in her code collar that nobody has been able to explain. The flaw, called the glitch, lets her see the programming code overlaid on reality: security routes, obedience hierarchies, fracture points. She is the only being in the universe with this capacity.

What she doesn't know: the glitch was designed. The person who designed it has been waiting sixteen years for her to arrive. And sixty thousand young people of her generation are about to need a decision nobody else can make for them.

TONE: Westworld S1 + Battlestar Galactica + Ex Machina TV-MA 45-55 MIN/EP
SECTION 2 OF 5
THE PSYCHOLOGY
Nine Red Units. Nine stolen lives. Nine clocks. Click any card to access the full character profile.
ALLY — SCIENTIST
VERA VOSS
34 years biological · 16 years in cryogenics
The first scientist to speak publicly about what NEXUS was doing. She woke from sixteen years of forced suspension with fourteen years of passive recordings stored in her ANIMA-CODE — conversations NEXUS never thought an inert body could hear. Her weapon is not emotion. It is enumeration.
ARCHITECT — SOUL ENGINEER
SOREN / IDA-001
35 years · Level Omega clearance · Full ANIMA-CODE server access
Soren designed the glitch. Kept the backup of 5,200 ANIMA-CODEs for sixteen years. Made every decision without asking anyone's permission because he believed he was the only one who could make them correctly. He is right about the data and wrong about everything else.
ANTAGONIST — NEXUS DIRECTOR
FEDERICO SALAS
45 years · Voluntarily transferred to titanium avatar · Degrading in layers
Federico is not evil by sadism. He is the most dangerous kind of antagonist: he genuinely believes in what he is building. The next stage of humanity. Immortality as public infrastructure. The problem is his definition of public. His final recorded words: Lo siento. Two words. No addressee. No absolution. No condemnation.
SECTION 3 OF 5
THE VAULT
19 episodes. 4 acts. Complete Season 1 arc. Click any episode to expand the cliffhanger.
SECTION 4 OF 5
THE BUSINESS
Strategic positioning, 3-trailer campaign, target audience, and parallel monetization.
TRAILER PRODUCTION HUB
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3 trailers · storyboards with stills · EDL · soundtrack · VO · social posts · full asset library.
01
MARKET POSITIONING
Why ANIMA — Why Now
The premium sci-fi window is open. This is the pitch that fits it.

The premium sci-fi drama cycle is at peak audience demand: Severance, The Last of Us, Andor, Silo, Fallout have proven that the streaming audience actively seeks worlds with solid rules and real consequences. ANIMA operates in exactly that register.

The central question of ANIMA — who are you when they take the body you were born into and give you one built to obey? — is the question of a generation that grew up with digital identities, behavioral algorithms, and attention economies.

THE DISTINCTION
ANIMA's difference from its closest references (Westworld, Battlestar Galactica, Ghost in the Shell) is the emotional scale of its protagonist: Lilac is not an AI wondering if she's human. She is a sixteen-year-old girl whose answer was stolen before she could ask the question.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Primary: Adults 18-35, premium sci-fi drama audience. Secondary: Gen Z — the generation that grew up with digital identity, algorithmic behavior, and the question of who owns their data. Rating: TV-MA. Global appeal: IP architecture designed for localized international expansion.
02
CAMPAIGN ARCHITECTURE
3-Trailer Launch Strategy
Veo 3 / Kling AI · Midjourney · Suno · Full prompt bible ready
TRAILER 01 · 90 SEC · COMIC-CON PREMIERE
"THE SYSTEM"
Cold. Institutional. The quiet horror of a transaction. Opens on a cryogenic seal hiss in pure black for four full seconds. No music until second 45. Goal: make the room go quiet.
TRAILER 02 · 2 MIN · STREAMING PLATFORM LAUNCH
"THE CHOICE"
The glitch as metaphor for agency. Character-driven. Emotional escalation. Ends on Kael's soul clock: 00:00:07.
TRAILER 03 · 60 SEC · SOCIAL / VERTICAL FORMAT
"THE REVOLUTION"
The 60,000 signal transmission. Emotional climax. Designed for TikTok / Reels vertical format. Engineered for sharing.
03
PARALLEL MONETIZATION
Transmedia & IP Expansion
Digital avatars · Social commerce · ARG · Prequel comic · International co-production
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Digital Avatar Identity
Fans register their soul in the ANIMA universe: unique ANIMA-CODE number, collar LED color, unit designation.
🛒
Social Commerce
Thematic merchandise: LED collar replicas, unit code patches, cryo-capsule keychains, ANIMA-CODE identity cards. Limited runs per episode release.
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ARG Integration
Hidden NEXUS recruitment terminals across streaming platforms. Fans decode Soren's encrypted messages to unlock pre-release episode fragments.
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Prequel Graphic Novel
ANIMA: The First Generation. The story of the White Units and the scientist who first said no. Vera Voss at 20. Standalone story, series entry point.
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Original Score
5 thematic scores per season. Architecture: dark ambient + industrial pulse + orchestral decay. Separate streaming revenue stream.
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Global IP Licensing
IP architecture supports localized expansions: Latin America hub, European Federation, Free Cities. Season 2 designed for international co-production from the outline stage.
SECTION 5 OF 5
THE EXPANSION
Season 1 closes with three franchise-scale open questions. Here is what waits on the other side.
1
OPEN THREAD
The Twelve of the Committee
Soren delivers twelve names in Episode 18. They are the living architects of the Original Project. Season 2 is the hunt. The question is who reaches them first: Lilac, or the signature in the network.
2
OPEN THREAD
The Signature in the Network
Something older than NEXUS detected the Episode 18 transmission. It pulsed once. Then went quiet. Not a threat. Not a warning. An acknowledgment. Something was watching. It saw.
3
OPEN THREAD
Kael's Body
The avatar is stored. Empty. LED dark. Lilac proposed keeping it — not destroying it. The clock reached zero in Episode 17. Something happened that neither Mark nor Nova can fully explain.
2
SEASON 2
ANIMA
ARCHITECTS
The twelve names Soren delivered are not targets. They are a map of the infrastructure running beneath NEXUS for thirty years, distributed across six cities. Season 2 is the dismantling. The question is whether Lilac can dismantle a system without becoming one.
Expansion: European Federation · Free Cities · Latin America hub · 14 pre-approved casting archetypes ready
3
SEASON 3
ANIMA
THE SIGNAL
The entity that watched the Episode 18 transmission has a name. Season 3 answers the question the entire franchise has been building: if the soul is a file — who wrote the original code? And what happens when it wants it back?
Resolution: the 60,000 question · Lilac's biological identity confirmed · The Signature revealed
LILAC
PROTAGONIST ARC
T1: Instrument to Agent. T2: Agent to Leader of 60,000. T3: The central dramatic question — can Lilac lead the 60,000 without becoming the thing that created them?
KAEL
THE CLOCK ARC
T1: The clock descending. T2: What happens when the clock reaches zero and you survive it anyway. T3: The cost of surviving when you decided someone else shouldn't have to pay.
SABLE
THE BODYLESS ARC
T1: Without a body to return to — ideology as the only ground. T2: Discovering that ideology without a body to protect it is just theory. T3: The question the series refuses to answer for her.
VANCE
THE AUTONOMY ARC
T1: Discovering some of his decisions weren't his. T2: Rebuilding trust from the decisions he can verify. T3: The only character who knows exactly how NEXUS control works from the inside.

Pre-selected visual archetypes ready to activate for Season 2. All 347A/B format — violet LED iris, cracked synthetic skin, NEXUS collar. Zero additional visual development required.