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Tutu: The Untold Story of a Kingdom

A historical animated project following Osei Tutu and Okomfo Anokye as they seek to unite divided Akan communities and establish the Asante Kingdom in the seventeenth century. AnimaxFYB publicly screened a proof of concept in Accra in December 2019; release of a completed series has not been confirmed.

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Credits & connections

  • Production studio: AnimaxFYB Studios · Needs verification · Linked from Animation Studios; production role is not always identical to credited animation service.
  • Director: Francis Y. Brown · Secondary source

Production studio: AnimaxFYB Studios

Cultural context

Seventeenth-century Asante Kingdom, Ghana. Studio promotional descriptions call it a planned animated series; a proof-of-concept screening does not establish commercial release of the full series.

Source credits

Francis Y. Brown (creative director, AnimaxFYB)

Viewing & reading

  • AnimaxFYB Studios (series information and proof of concept) · Official listing only · Unknown / not checked · Official information only · Studio reported a Tutu proof-of-concept film available on its official YouTube in a February 2024 post, but no direct authenticated video URL or Ghana playback was captured here. The proposed full series has NO verified release or viewing link. Do not present this official information URL as a watch link.
  • Reviewed public catalogue · Reference link; playback and territory not rechecked · Proof of concept · A proof-of-concept short screened on 20 December 2019 in Accra; Squid Magazine's 31 December 2019 recap describes a five-minute proof-of-concept, while other reporting discusses different proposed/episode runtimes. Do not assign 5 minutes as the planned SERIES runtime. The complete series has no independently verified release. Authentic 2019 AnimaxFYB promotional art is retained only in the linked Media Assets table, marked internal research pending permission.

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