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‘Sentinel 6’ Anime in Development With Michael Carter-Williams and Jamaal Williams
Sentinel 6 is an Afro-futurist science-fiction anime in development, with NBA player Michael Carter-Williams and NFL player Jamaal Williams serving as executive producers and investors.
Created by Pat Stout and the late Asa Palmer, it is set in 2429, about 400 years after a near-extinction event called the Great Phoenix War.
The story follows six young people who awaken with a shared power and must defend a divided, post-apocalyptic Earth.
The creators drew on a lack of Black characters and stories in anime and wanted viewers to see themselves represented as heroes.
The project raised nearly $20,000 through a Kickstarter campaign in 2024 to make a trailer, and Carter-Williams and Williams fully funded its pilot in late 2025.
Animation studio Creative Freaks won the bid after the project was presented to two dozen studios this year.
The series is planned to have 11 or 12 episodes, each about 30 minutes long.
The Afro-futurist sci-fi anime series Sentinel 6 is in development with NBA player Michael Carter-Williams and NFL player Jamaal Williams as executive producers.
Creative Freaks won the bid after the project was taken to two dozen animation studios.
The series is set in 2429, around 400 years after a near-extinction event called the Great Phoenix War.
The project was created by Jamaican-American writer Pat Stout and the late Asa Palmer.
Carter-Williams and Williams invested in the series and fully funded its pilot in late 2025.
- Who
- Sentinel 6 was created by Pat Stout and Asa Palmer. Michael Carter-Williams and Jamaal Williams are executive producers.
- What
- The anime series is in development, and its pilot has been funded.
- When
- The announcement was reported on October 10, 2026. The pilot was fully funded in late 2025.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- The creators wanted to make a world audiences could connect with while offering escapism. The project was also partly inspired by the underrepresentation of Black characters and stories in anime.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
When Asa and I grew up, Black people watching anime wasn’t cool, or we were constantly reminded about how you can’t be this character because they don’t look like you
I’m excited to be part of Sentinel 6 because I believe in the power of seeing yourself in the stories you watch.
Pat Stout and Asa Palmer created Sentinel 6 through their production company Sable Kudzu.
The project ran a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $20,000 for a trailer.
After Palmer died earlier that year, Carter-Williams and Williams fully funded the pilot.
The project was taken to two dozen animation studios, and Creative Freaks won the bid.
- Setting
- Year 2429
- Episodes
- 11 to 12 episodes, each 30 minutes
- Creators
- Pat Stout and Asa Palmer
- Kickstarter
- Nearly $20,000 raised in 2024
- Animation studio
- Creative Freaks won the bid
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