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Enclave Studios  ·  Tokyo · Los Angeles

Worlds Without
Borders

A future studio building original universes at the intersection of East and West, and of storytelling and frontier technology.

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Est. MMXXVI
Comics
Film
Anime
Gaming
Immersive
Stewards of the worlds you know
Naruto   ·   Neon Genesis Evangelion   ·   Sword Art Online   ·   Marvel   ·   DC   ·   Batman   ·   God of War   ·   Spider-Man   ·    Naruto   ·   Neon Genesis Evangelion   ·   Sword Art Online   ·   Marvel   ·   DC   ·   Batman   ·   God of War   ·   Spider-Man   ·   
01 · The Thesis

A film is a product.
A universe is a platform.

Products are consumed once and depreciate; platforms compound. The most valuable entertainment is no longer a single title but a durable fictional universe that flows across every medium and every market: film, series, anime, comics, games, and beyond. Each new release deepens rather than depletes the underlying asset.

For the first time in cinema's history, all ten of 2024's top-grossing films were sequels. The signal is structural, not aesthetic: audiences pay a premium for the trust and belonging that established worlds provide. The industry's true scarcity is the capacity to originate new universes, precisely what Enclave is built to provide.

Products depreciate. Platforms compound.
02 · Market Context

The global IP economy: four interlocking markets, each large, growing, and increasingly interdependent.

$369.6B
Global Licensing
Entertainment & character licensing alone: $149.8B, a record high.
$37.7B
Global Anime
On a path to $77.2B by 2033, the fastest-growing storytelling language.
$200B+
Video Games
3.6B players, the deepest medium for inhabiting a world.
~40%
GenAI CAGR
Generative AI in animation, compounding through 2035.

Japan's anime industry reached an all-time high of $25.25B in 2024, with overseas revenue surpassing domestic for the first time. This is not a cyclical fad but a structural rebalancing of where the world's most-loved stories originate.

03 · The Enclave Model

One world.
Every surface.

Each universe begins with a canonical world bible covering its mythology, characters, and rules, authored before any single product. Because architecture precedes the products, every release reinforces one coherent, appreciating asset.

01Film

Tentpole arrival moments: canonical spectacle and emotional anchor.

02Television

Serialized depth, character development, and world expansion over time.

03Anime

A global-native language reaching Gen Z and Alpha, built for East-West portability.

04Comics

Fast, low-cost canon expansion and creative experimentation; a talent showcase.

05Gaming

The deepest engagement surface, converting audiences into residents of the world.

06Immersive

VR/AR experiences and digital ownership: participation and community equity.

04 · The East–West Bridge

The richest seam in entertainment is the one between East and West. Enclave is built to operate natively on both sides of it.

Our founding network has stewarded the largest franchises on each shore, producing and distributing across the Pacific for nearly two decades. We move IP, talent, and capital in both directions, originating worlds genuinely fluent in both idioms, rather than translated after the fact.

From the East
Naruto
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Sword Art Online
A Silent Voice
Poupelle of Chimney Town
Into the West
Marvel & DC
Wolverine · Spider-Man
The Sentry
Batman · Warner Bros.
God of War · TMNT
05 · Technology & Responsible Innovation

Frontier technology as native material, never a marketing layer.

i.
Artificial Intelligence

The most consequential production technology since the camera. Used responsibly, it compresses the time from concept to canon and lowers the cost of expressing a universe across formats.

ii.
Immersive Media

Immersive formats turn stories into places. VR, AR, and 360 let audiences stand inside a universe. It is a high-intensity surface that deepens attachment and opens experiential revenue.

iii.
Digital Ownership

Applied judiciously, Web3 lets audiences hold genuine, portable stakes in the worlds they love, prioritizing durable community and real utility over speculation.

AI amplifies our artists. It does not substitute for them.
06 · Founding Team

Stewards of the largest franchises on both shores.

01
Henry Finn
Co-founder

CEO of 0N1 Force and an early adopter of AI since 2009. An award-winning commercial producer, he led launch work for Nike, Apple, Google, Sony, and Activision, a rare track record of building IP across mediums while raising capital alongside builders.

02
Paul Jenkins
Co-founder

One of the world's preeminent cross-media storytellers. His credits span Wolverine: Origin, The Sentry, and Spider-Man for Marvel, work across DC, and narrative for God of War, placing him in the elite tier of world-building writers.

03
Ko Mori
Co-founder

Founder & CEO of ELEVEN ARTS, the leading U.S. distributor of Japanese anime for 17 years. A film and Broadway producer, co-producer of the record-breaking 2025 Othello, operating at the rare intersection of Japanese IP, Hollywood, and AI-native storytelling.

04
Bryan Li (IMCMPLX)
Co-founder

Artist, futurist, and world-builder. His God Complex universe expanded into Image Comics; in 2021 he co-founded 0N1 FORCE, which sold out in four minutes. Collaborator with Warner Bros., Batman, the Chicago Bulls, and Samsung, and the source of Enclave's singular visual language.

07 · A Studio for the People

A franchise is not a product line.
It is a micro-nation.

A universe at scale is an economy in its own right, with its own culture, citizens, and belonging. Fans are not an audience to be sold to; they are its inhabitants. Artists are not work-for-hire labor; they are its founders. We are building autonomous economies for the people who live inside them.

The Legacy Studio
The Enclave Model
The Franchise
An asset to be exploited
An autonomous economy
Fans
Consumers to monetize
Citizens with stake & voice
Artists
Work-for-hire labor
Founders with long-term upside
Value
Extracted upward & outward
Circulated within the community
Technology & AI
Cost-cutting; replaces labor
Humanity-first; amplifies people
Humanity First
We put the humanity into AI.

Every technology we adopt is judged by one test: does it expand human creativity and human connection, or diminish them? In our hands, AI serves human storytellers. It lowers the barriers to building worlds and returns more time, reach, and reward to the people doing the creating. It never replaces them. Technology serves humanity; humanity is never in service to the technology.

Worlds Without Borders

We build worlds with the people who make worlds worth believing in.

A studio for the people: for the artists who create and the communities who believe. We are inviting the greatest artists on earth to build them with us.

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