The Offering

Own a piece of NOBORU

This is not a donation. NOBORU is funded by the people who want it to exist, and the people who fund it own half of everything it earns, for as long as it earns.

$15,000

The Raise

50%

Of the Project

Per Koku

$10

Minimum Stake

Stake Your Koku

The Unit

Measured in koku

In old Japan, a domain was not measured in acres or gold. It was measured in koku: the rice its land could yield in a year. A retainer's stipend, a house's standing, the worth of an entire fief, all of it was counted in koku. The size of a house was the size of its harvest.

NOBORU is measured the same way. The project is divided into 30,000 koku. We are offering 15,000 of them, half of everything the series is, at $1 apiece. Your koku are your share of the harvest: when the series earns, you are paid in proportion to what you hold.

A minimum stake is 10 koku, $10. There is no maximum. Your koku belong to you for as long as the project exists.

The Deal

You are paid first. We are paid last.

一

You stake the series

$1 a koku, 10 koku minimum. The raise is $15,000, and it goes where the money matters most: generation, scoring and sound. That number puts five episodes on screen.

二

Every dollar earned goes to you first

From the first dollar of proceeds, 100% goes to koku holders, until every holder has received their full stake back plus 20%. The production does not take a cut before you do. Not a partial cut, not a fee, nothing.

三

Then the harvest splits, forever

Once holders are made whole plus 20%, everything the project earns splits down the middle: half to koku holders, paid by share, and half to the studio. That split never expires.

The Costs

Where the $15,000 goes

Generation is the engine, and it is priced like one. Every second of NOBORU is generated: each shot is designed, prompted, and run until it holds, and every run is paid for whether it holds or not. The cold open taught us the real rate. A finished shot is the survivor of several paid attempts, and roughly fifty minutes of finished film means hundreds of finished shots. Carry the rate across the series and you get the ledger below.

Line	Cost	What it covers
Production	$5,000	Running the production: the operating costs that keep the studio making the series through all five episodes
Video generation	$6,950	Hundreds of finished shots across five episodes, each the survivor of multiple paid runs
Reshoots	$500	Regenerating the shots that fight back: hard action, water, fire, night
Score, voice and sound	$750	Music, voice work and sound design for every episode
Marketing	$1,000	Getting the series in front of the audience it is made for
Processing fees	$450	Card processing on the raise itself, roughly 3%
Tools and delivery	$350	Edit suite, site and hosting through the production
Total	$15,000	Five finished episodes, on screen

Working figures, refined as production runs. If a line comes in under, the difference moves into promotion.

The Numbers

What the series has to earn

The main engine is YouTube. Five episodes go up free for the world, YouTube pays for the watch time, and the watch time pays the holders. Long form cinematic work typically nets a few dollars per thousand views; the table below uses $3 per thousand as its working number.

The series earns	Per $100 staked	Total views	Per episode
$15,000	$100 · break even	~5.0 million	~1.0 million
$18,000	$120 · your money plus 20%	~6.0 million	~1.2 million
$42,000	$200 · double your money	~14.0 million	~2.8 million

Proceeds means what the project actually collects: ad revenue, merchandise, licensing, and any sale, net of platform fees. Real world rates vary with audience and season; these are working figures, not promises, and every holder will see the real numbers as they come in.

For scale: a leading high production AI series on YouTube is drawing between 400,000 and 7.6 million views per episode right now. NOBORU breaks even at one million per episode. The middle of that range pays every holder back with room to spare, and the top of it clears the doubling line several times over.

These are small numbers for a series. A single episode finding its audience can carry every milestone on this table, and there are five, plus two more seasons in the works. The raise is small because the method is new. That is the entire opportunity.

The Mechanisms

Every stream feeds the same harvest

Views are the engine, but they are not the only stream. Everything NOBORU earns, from any source, lands in the same pool and follows the same order: holders first, then the split.

The Watch

Episodes run free on YouTube and the platform pays for the watch time. The largest stream, and the one the milestones above are built on.

The Goods

Merchandise built from the series: posters and prints, apparel, the physical artifacts of the world. Every sale is proceeds, the same as a view.

The Rights

Licensing, distribution deals, and, if it ever came to it, an outright sale. The rarest stream and the largest checks.

Merchandise opens with the series itself, and holders will see its numbers in the same ledger as the views.

The Story

What you are backing

Feudal Japan, the end of a century of war. Noboru is a boy born heir to a small warrior house: lands, retainers, a village that answers to his name. When his father dies, the one person meant to protect him decides the house would sit better without him, and the boy runs for his life with hired steel close behind.

The road delivers him to a quiet farm and an old man who wants nothing to do with him. Hayato has spent twenty years being forgotten, and forgetting is the only peace he has. Five episodes carry the two of them down one road: the men sent after the boy grow sharper each time, the old man's past walks closer with every mile, and the whole story finally rests on a single drawn sword.

The heart of a young man is made strong by hearing hundreds of stories of great bravery.

That is what this series is for. Underneath the swords, NOBORU teaches what we want every son and daughter to walk away holding:

勇

Courage

Evil is real, and it can be answered. Someone has to stand between it and the innocent.

義

Duty

A man's word holds even when it costs him. Especially when it costs him.

恩

Sacrifice

Strength exists to be spent for someone else. That is what it is for.

道

Legacy

What an old man carries only matters if he hands it to someone young enough to carry it on.

The cold open is finished and public. Watch it, then judge whether the rest deserves to exist.

Watch the Cold Open

The Heart

Why this exists

Before you weigh the numbers, understand what they serve. This project was not started to make money. It exists to inspire and strengthen the next generation through the power of storytelling. The mechanism on this page is how the stories keep coming: it is the fuel, not the destination.

You should also know where the stories come from. NOBORU is made by people with a biblical worldview, and everything we write is rooted in it. Courage that stands between evil and the innocent. Duty that holds when it costs. Sacrifice that spends strength on someone else. We do not preach on screen. We tell stories built on the truths we believe, so a generation raised on hollow ones has something better to grow strong on.

The Risk

You can lose this money

Plainly: nothing on this page is guaranteed. NOBORU is a new series from a small studio using a new method. If the series earns nothing, koku pay nothing, and your stake is gone. There is no promised return, no buyback, and no schedule. Do not stake money you cannot afford to lose.

What we do promise is the order. If the project earns a single dollar, that dollar goes to holders before it goes to us. We only get paid if you have been paid first.

The Offering Is Open

Stake your koku

$1 a koku, 10 koku minimum. Checkout runs through our payment processor, your receipt is your record, and holder accounts are on the way: your koku, your share, and the running numbers, visible any time.

This page describes the offering in plain language. Every stake is made under these same terms, and the written record of your purchase carries them. Nothing here is investment advice.