The Hundred-Dollar Shogun

Episode 01 — “Keep the Change” · In production

The Story

One note. One cut.

Sean built his empire from nothing — and kept the first hundred-dollar bill that started it. In his hands, that single note is a blade no sword has ever beaten.

Now a syndicate of eight is moving through Miami — collectors, watchers, and auctioneers who treat people as assets. They’ve recognized something about that original note. And they’re coming to collect.

Hand-drawn in the style of a 1990s Japanese theatrical feature: ink lines, cel shadows, and painted Miami nights.

The Protagonist

Sean — The Hundred-Dollar Shogun

A self-made magnate who never raises his voice and never needs to. Observant, decisive, quietly competitive — his authority comes from economy, not noise. When the fight comes to him, he answers with one compact, perfect motion.

“You could have asked.”

The note stays paper. It doesn’t grow, multiply, or turn to steel. It simply cuts — because his precision makes it impossible not to.

Main Cast

The people he trusts

Three people inside the circle — each one capable of telling him no.

Five Star

Operations · Right Hand

Mechanic, investigator, and the first to spot the trap. She’s already checked the obvious failure before you thought to ask — and she doesn’t need permission, just backup.

The Strategist

Leverage · Influence

A seat at every table that matters. Where Sean reads a room, she reads the institution behind it — and challenges every assumption he didn’t know he had.

Wild Card

Unpredictable · By Design

Stage lights, fast machines, and choices no one saw coming. Either the plan survives Wild Card, or it was never really a plan.

Supporting Cast

The city keeps its own ledger

Club owners, informants, family — straight from the production binder.

The Twins

Club Owners

The DJ runs the floor. The Business Twin runs the books — by pocket watch. Nothing happens in their club that they don’t both already know.

The Concierge

The Informant

Gold key, Art Deco lobby, impeccable manners. Every secret in the building crosses his desk before it reaches anyone else’s.

Five Star’s Father

The Mechanic

Kind eyes, steady hands, and the family shop where it all started. He wants his daughter safe — and knows better than to stand in her way.

The Former Mentor

Role: Classified

The quiet man with the repaired cuff. What he taught Sean — and why they parted — is one of the cards this series keeps face-down.

The Opposition

The Syndicate of Eight

They don’t make threats. They make acquisitions.

Adrian Kurose

The Curator

The collection comes first. People are simply pieces he hasn’t acquired yet.

Lucien Vale

The Auctioneer

Everything sells. Everyone has a reserve price. He already knows yours.

Elias Voss

The Watcher

He’s been inside your life longer than you know — and he keeps excellent time.

Reika

Red Thread

Every favor leaves a string behind. She holds all of them.

Ren

Undertow

The wharf keeps its secrets below the waterline. So does he.

Daigo

The Bell

You hear the staff ring the stone before you see him. By then it’s late.

Hana

Mirror

Behind the violet mask is the one face you can’t fight — your own.

Iori

Interval

The blade lives in the pause between heartbeats. Iori lives there too.

The World

Miami, painted by hand

Every location is a painted backdrop in the same production — brush texture, warm lamplight, wet stone.

The Penthouse

The Supper Club

Five Star’s Workshop

The Curator’s Office

The Garage

The Shogun's black Testarossa — four-view model sheet

The Black Testarossa

The Shogun’s Ferrari — gold “$100” badge on the fender. His favorite machine in the fleet.

The Shogun’s supercar

Midnight-gold sportbike

Five Star’s custom

Wild Card’s road racer

The Craft

Drawn like 1995

No 3D shortcuts, no airbrushed gradients. The entire series holds to one production standard:

Ink & celConfident dark outlines, opaque flat colors, crisp two-tone cel shadows, restrained highlights.
Painted backgroundsVisible brush texture in every backdrop — Miami night skies, lamplit arches, rain-glossed stone.
Weight & timingClear poses, decisive action, a visible settle. Held frames for tension, then the one detail that matters.

The hundred-note grip — held like a short blade

Episode 01 — Keep the Change

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