Build Your Studio Beyond the Competition
Seeker presents an opportunity for your studio to build artistic clout and set up merchandising with a tale of Juvenalian satire. It was written by a female performer with gravitas, Penny Barber, who has made her name synonymous with taboo erotica and high quality content. It will be a cult classic for decades to come, defining sexualities and inviting cosplays, fan fiction, and other forms of homage.
Animation itself is an opportunity to safely explore taboo and fantastical themes and allow adult performers to focus on acting. More specifically, Seeker will help your studio forge something imbued with the long-term, possibly intergenerational earning power usually reserved for mainstream entertainment. And remember: “hentai” was the most searched term on PornHub.com in 2023!
Franchise Potential
Though the story of Seeker in the Shadows is self-contained, there’s a potential for exploiting both the characters (Queen Mara’s origin story, Wren’s journey, perhaps even a sitcom-style exploration of the daily lives of the dragon’s slave girls) and the world we’ve built.
Release Format
I would love to have Seeker released in select, adult theaters or for midnight showings, then put on mainstream streaming platforms with age verification. Barring that, I’m happy to animate it in sections for serial release, in which event I think that starting in medias res may be the best option, only showing the earlier, sexless introduction once we’ve whipped up some interest and reviews.
Finances of Comparable Films
It was difficult to find films with which to compare Seeker, as the fully adult cartoon is a genre both retro and nascent.
Spine of Night (2021)
Cryptozoo (2021)
America: The Motion Picture (2021)
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge (2020)
The Midnight Gospel (Mini Series, 2020)
To Your Last Death (2019)
Arcane (TV Series, 2021 to present)
Harley Quinn (TV Series, 2019 to present)
Castlevania (TV Series, 2017 to 2021)