The Painted Soul
Series · 2026 · Choi Junbae, Imaginus, Rakuten Viki
Ten-episode Korean animated fantasy romance. Apprentice painter Yun Hwa lives in a world where paintings can shape reality; breaking into a forbidden annex to pass her final exam, she accidentally frees Seol Jin, a legendary spirit painter sealed inside a painting a century ago, and the two are drawn into danger at the palace. Viki calls it its first major AI-assisted animated original: the Imaginus team says it used AI and other technologies to make it, but has not said which parts are generated, so it is listed here as AI-assisted rather than AI-generated.
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