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SUNTUKAN is an original Filipino anime-style animated web series — fully AI-assisted, independently produced, and built for short-form platforms. This page contains series information, format specs, and contact details for press, collaboration, and platform inquiries.
Overview
SUNTUKAN is set in Nagara City — a fictional provincial Philippine city in the Bicol region where underground street fights and illegal gambling are the machinery of local politics. An oppressive figure controls everything from the shadows: the fights, the bets, the politicians, the police.
Then a wandering fighter arrives. He's not looking for trouble. He's looking for work. He has no idea what he's walking into.
The series blends street-level Filipino drama with anime action aesthetics — Taglish dialogue, provincial city setting, character-driven storytelling, and fight sequences that grow in scale as the story escalates. It's built for short-form consumption but structured as a serialized narrative.
SUNTUKAN draws its DNA from Filipino popular media first. The fight architecture — contrasting styles, readable stances, characters who reveal their true ability only under pressure — comes directly from Street Fighter and Fatal Fury. The dramatic structure — found family, slow-built trust, institutional corruption, a female lead who carries the emotional weight while the male lead carries the physical conflict — is teleserye. The visual language is anime. The result is something that speaks to Filipino fighting game fans, teleserye audiences, and anime viewers simultaneously, without asking any of them to meet it halfway.
The Cast
A drifter. Self-taught street fighter, no formal background, no political connections. Arrives in Nagara City looking for honest work. Quiet, direct, unhurried. The kind of person a city like Nagara City is not built for — and cannot ignore.
Runs the sari-sari store with her grandfather. Resourceful, guarded, practical. She hustles harder than anyone gives her credit for — street vending, store work, whatever it takes. Suspicious of strangers by default. Her trust is not given. It's earned.
Maria's grandfather. Elderly, wiry, warm. Speaks more pure Tagalog than anyone else in the city. Has lived in Nagara City long enough to remember what it was before. Sees things in people that others miss.
Dirty blonde spiky hair, distressed denim jacket, sunglasses he never takes off. Loud, charming, very Taglish. Moves through Nagara City's underground like he belongs there — because he does. His relationship to Maria is not immediately clear. Neither is which side he's on.
Massive, silver-haired, mestizo. Dark suit. The name everyone in Nagara City knows and nobody says carelessly. His presence is felt long before he appears — in the jobs that don't come through, the fights that get arranged, the silence people keep when certain questions get asked.
Barangay Captain. Large, fast, physically imposing in a way that has nothing to do with his uniform. A fixture of Nagara City's power structure. Knows the city, knows its people, and carries that knowledge carefully. Not a man you approach without a reason.
Production
SUNTUKAN is a fully independent production by a single creator. Every visual element — character designs, background plates, composites, and action sequences — is produced using an AI-assisted pipeline built specifically for this series.
The pipeline combines Kling AI for character generation and background stills, Grok for style transfer and environment work, Photoshop for compositing and color grading, Google Gemini TTS for all principal cast dialogue, and CapCut for final assembly and subtitle delivery.
Dialogue is written entirely by the creator in Taglish — authentic to how Filipinos actually speak — and verified for cultural and linguistic accuracy. All episodes are reviewed for Content ID compliance before release.
The result is a serialized animated series that would be impossible to produce at this scale without AI tooling — and impossible to produce with soul without a human at the center of every creative decision.
Distribution
New episodes drop here first. Main community hub. facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590513660794
Full episode archive. Secondary release window after Facebook. YouTube channel: SUNTUKAN
Note on metrics: SUNTUKAN launched publicly in June 2026. Current page following stands at 51. Trailing 28-day totals and trailer-specific day-one metrics are both noted below. For current detailed analytics, contact directly.
Get in Touch
For press inquiries, collaboration proposals, licensing questions, or platform partnership discussions, reach out directly through the series social channels or via the website.
SUNTUKAN is open to conversations about Filipino content partnerships, anime and animation community features, and independent creator spotlights. The series is not currently seeking production investment.