🐦‍⬛ Meet the Crow Witch

Trickster, tengu, and the catalyst of the curse. The Crow Witch sings in half-truths, offering deals that always come with a cost.

🌸 Meet Ume

Chaotic, curious, and brilliant, Ume is the team’s alchemist and healer. She brings both chaos and clarity when the world gets weird.

🌲 Meet Matsu

Stoic and disciplined, Matsu is the quiet strength of the team. He wears pine armor in honor of his missing father and carries the weight of duty.

🎃 Meet Kabocha

Confident, clever, and always a step ahead, Kabocha is the team’s strategist—and the friend who keeps Kabu out of trouble.

🌱 Meet Kabu

Rambunctious, adventurous, and endlessly idealistic, Kabu is the farm boy who believes in heroes because he wants to become one.

🌽 Episode 2: A Harvest of Hubris

Kabu and Kabocha reach Mazekane, where greed fuels a regenerating corn demon. It’s the first true harvest of a cursed seed and Ume’s debut.

🌱 Episode 1: Seeds of Mischief

Furumi Village isn’t just a fictional setting—it’s actually where I bought my first home, nestled in a valley between mountains in Shinano‑machi, Nagano. Hidden between peaks like Mt.  Madarao and Mt.  Kurohime, it’s a place known for ski slopes, crystal-clear hiking trails, healing forests, and

Mistakes Have the Power – A Song for Ume

While walking to each other’s place, my cowriter and I challenged ourselves to write an Ume-themed song. The result was “Mistakes Have the Power”—a warm reminder from Ume to Kabu that even failures (and turnip heads) can lead to something unexpectedly beautiful.

Testing Runway and Google Flow (Veo) for the First Time

I’ve been curious for a while now about how far these new video generation tools have come—especially for bringing our world of Kabu and the Seeds in the Wind to life. Over the weekend, I finally sat down to give Runway AI and Google’s Flow (Veo 2)

The First Song - "Kabu Theme Song"

In early September, we weren't planning to write songs for the show. Back then, Kabu and the Seeds in the Wind was just an evolving story idea, a stack of travel-inspired ideas, and a love of Japanese folklore and culture. But creativity has its own way of spilling

The Birth of Kabu

“Here’s a brave turnip farmer, fending off spirits to inspire you.” That was the caption I wrote under the very first image of Kabu. He was a one-off AI-generated sketch, sent in response to a message from Megan—she’d been listening to a podcast (Otherworld - I highly