Alluring and exotic micro-series from the heat, noise and hidden worlds of Southeast Asia. Original entertainment IP created with generative AI.
Explore the seriesIndonesian student Sari and Thai exchange student Ploy balance school life with covert missions for a secret intelligence agency. But as whispers of their exploits spread, each assignment draws them deeper into a conspiracy reaching far beyond Jakarta.
In the SARI & PLOY universe, freelance investigator Laras takes on cases others would rather keep buried. Every lead pulls her deeper into Jakarta’s hidden violence.
An impossible landlady defending the last independent boarding house in a city owned legally, criminally, and magically by one very strange family.
Across Southeast Asia, a different woman steps into every story wrapped in gold, glamour, and unanswered questions. No one can tell where their money comes from, how much of the luxury is real, or why everyone seems to know their names. But wherever they go, rooms fall silent, danger keeps its distance, and the world bends around them as if they were untouchable.
Dira, Lina, Adel and their crew don't look for trouble. Trouble just tends to be wherever they end up. An abandoned mall at 2 a.m. A luxury mansion mid dinner party. A lo-fi found footage comedy following Jakarta's loudest, most fearless all-female scooter gang through the city's strangest corners. Whatever they find, they never run. No fear. No plan. Just the gang.
Ratu Sunyi, the Silent Queens, is an all-female assassin syndicate built on one insight: a woman dressed for a ceremony moves through Southeast Asia without suspicion. Trained in Pencak Silat, poison, blades and social infiltration, their contracts are exclusively drug lords, corrupt officials and traffickers who bought their way out of justice. Widuri is their best. Her real name no longer exists.
Dan Pradana [MXVDXN] builds original gen-AI fiction through a raw, lo-fi vision of Jakarta and Bangkok. His images return to kos-kosan, Indonesia’s rented-room boarding houses where people live close together around shared corridors, kitchens, and laundry yards.
That world extends into modest flats, working-class housing, roadside food stalls, narrow alleys, fluorescent minimarts, wet concrete, and overheated streets. It is Southeast Asia seen from inside: crowded, funny, sensual, class-conscious, and far from the polished tropical fantasy usually exported to outsiders.
For more than a decade, Dan has worked as a copywriter in APAC advertising, creating work for brands across food and beverage, condoms, automotive, telecommunications, financial technology, and lifestyle.
Advertising trained him to find a strong idea inside a messy brief, understand what different audiences desire, and execute creative work through deadlines, feedback, and limited resources.
As he moves into a more corporate phase of his career, he keeps MXVDXN alive between business trips, airport lounges, hotel rooms, and whatever time remains after work. It is his creative playground, where he can unleash his lizard brain and explore the strange, sensual, violent, or ridiculous ideas that have no place in his day job.
AI gives him the freedom to turn those impulses into characters, cities, and stories that would otherwise remain inside his head.
Girls with braces are a recurring visual signature. So are the figures known as cabe-cabean in Jakarta and skoi in Bangkok.
Cabe-cabean is a loaded Indonesian label for flashy, street-racing-adjacent girls associated with motorbike crews, cheap accessories, dyed hair, and visible braces. Skoi is its loose Thai cultural cousin, originally describing girls who rode behind illegal street racers and later becoming shorthand for loud, rebellious working-class femininity.
Dan is drawn to how these girls dress, speak, flirt, fight, and occupy public space despite being dismissed as tacky or troublesome by polite society.
His work does not treat them as interchangeable exotic objects. They are funny, vulgar, stylish, contradictory, and fully aware of the attention they attract. Their beauty matters, but so do their appetites, anger, humor, ambition, and agency.
Pretty ones bite.SARI & PLOY is the clearest expression of Dan’s schoolcore aesthetic. Heavily inspired by Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop, it combines the pop-team glamour of Charlie’s Angels with silat, Muay Thai, surveillance, after-school friendship, and Southeast Asian street life. Its heroines may wear school uniforms, but their world is built around loyalty, danger, humor, and the physical force of two girls moving through the city together.
Dan embraces microseries because the format matches how he thinks: fast, fragmentary, and always moving. Each piece can introduce a character, mood, or unexplored corner of his universe without forcing the idea into a long production before it is ready. It also gives him a practical way to test how AI technology is evolving through real creative work, experiment with new possibilities, and let unexpected results shape the next story without committing to a feature-length project.
A distinctive sensuality runs through all of Dan’s work, sometimes intentionally and sometimes as instinct.
Taken together, MXVDXN feels less like an AI studio and more like a living piece of ALT media: part cultural zine, part bootleg cinema, and part feverish archive of Southeast Asian girls, streets, appetites, and danger.
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