Kon'ya

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Inspiration

Honestly? It started with a dream. I woke up at 3 AM seeing these three girls—so real—standing on broken bridges between shadowy worlds. I scribbled it down on my arm before I forgot. Later, I realized it felt like Princess Mononoke meets Your Name, but… lonelier. We wanted to show that ache of connection when you know someone’s out there, even if time and space are screaming "no." My grandma used to say, "The night holds all the stories we’re too afraid to tell in daylight." That stuck with me. So we built a world where the dark isn’t empty—it’s waiting.

What it does

The world of the Night is divided into three planes — the Past, the Present, and the Beyond. Once connected by a single flow of energy known as the Ethereal Current, the realms fractured after a cataclysm, leaving them isolated for centuries. Now, three young women — born in different worlds — begin to awaken the same mark of destiny: a shimmering sigil of unity glowing faintly on their chests, drawing them toward one another.

"Kon’ya" isn’t just a music video—it’s a feeling. When you watch it, you should catch your breath when the sigils on the girls’ chests flare in sync with the music’s heartbeat. You should feel the Past realm’s crumbling cherry blossoms stick to your skin, smell the rain on the neon streets of the Present, and shiver at the silent stars of the Beyond. No dialogue. Just raw, visual poetry. By the finale? When their hands almost touch across the fractured sky? Yeah. We made people cry at our test screening. (Okay, I cried. But still.)

How we built it

We did this with just two tools: Kling and Suno. Just us, an apartment, and these two AI friends who became our midnight collaborators.

Challenges we ran into

AI kept making the Kon'ya intro and outro title look like a colorful mush-up, but details were lacking or obscure. We recreated it 41 times meddling with the prompt back and forth "Anime 2000s aesthetic, dramatic dynamic opening several woman characters (miko under tori with katana, sorcerer with blue hair in white clothes with intricate shining посох, woman with silver hair in casual long dress under Tokyo tower, girl in black dress with long purple hair with her back) with different paning with stylized artistic title text "今夜" and its translation "Kon’ya" in the center..." (I counted.)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting that "Featured" badge from the Kling team. We screamed so loud the neighbors banged on the pipes.

What we learned

AI is a paintbrush, not the artist: It gave us weird, beautiful accidents. But we chose which accidents to keep.

What's next for Kon'ya

We shot 90 seconds of the girls finally meeting—but cut it. (Too happy? Too neat?) We’ll release it if the MV hits it. You decide.

P.S. If you’re judging this… our cat, LeChat, demands a co-director credit. He usually sat on the "Create" button.

Built With

• kling