Format: 10 x 30min Animated TV Series
Genre: Adult Animated/Action-Adventure
Tone: Akira - One Punch Man - Full Metal Alchemist
Budget: $1.5 Million Per Episode
In order to avenge her murdered family, a grieving teenage girl summons a giant severed demon hand in exchange for her soul. A white-knuckle revenge saga with an irreverent twist, Null & Void is a seriously hardcore adult animated series that delivers one hell of a punch.
After her family are murdered by a callous debt collector, a grieving teenage girl named Nova Rezadi makes a revenge pact with Nemesys, the Spirit of Vengeance, and is granted the Severed Hand of the Demon King— literally a massive, invincible battle hand— that will obey her every command until the pact is fulfilled.
But when she discovers that her family’s elusive killer has already died of natural causes, Nova attempts to void the pact and learns all too late that the only way out is by completing another act of vengeance.
Unwilling to get innocent blood on her hands, Nova sets off with Knuk— the nickname she gives to the severed hand— in search of another way to scrap the pact and ends up stumbling into an epic, high stakes adventure full of demonic forces, futuristic armies and mythical beasts who all crave the power of Nova’s five-fingered super weapon for themselves.
Over the course of their journey, Nova and Knuk form alliances that eventually become a new surrogate family for Nova, one she no longer has to avenge but protect. Love transforms Nova from a heartbroken teenager into a heroic defender, and in the process, changes Knuk from a vengeful demonic spirit into a symbol of defiance and hope for the war ravaged region they live.
By the end, Nova and Knuk have become so inseparable that Nova’s crusade to be rid of Knuk turns into one to keep him. Unfortunately, this change of heart comes with great peril, as the price for staying together will eventually mean facing off against the Spirit of Vengeance himself, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Null & Void is about the timeless struggle between forgiveness and revenge, retaliation and mercy, and hope and despair. Ultimately it demonstrates how forgiveness, mercy and love can be the antidote to a divided world.
Made for a mature audience and rendered in a premium, anime-influenced cell animation style of the highest calibre, Null & Void combines hardcore action, bizarre comedy, true horror, thrilling suspense and tear jerking emotion to become a visually dazzling adult animated series of the highest order.
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Creators Statement
Null & Void began with a sketch of a warrior girl riding a giant severed hand drawn sometime in the early 2000s. Years later, the phrase ‘null and void’ sounded cool as the moniker for a couple of badass bounty hunters. Later still, the Null & Void bounty hunting duo was merged with the sketch of the girl and the severed hand resulting in the characters taking their current shape. All of this was inspired and informed by a lifelong, deep admiration for classic Japanese anime.
Fast forward to 2021 when Studio Goono was invited to pitch a music video concept for a new Salvatore Ganacci song. Winning the bid, Nova and Knuk were then brought to life as the animated antagonists of the titular recording artist by a team of talented animators. With the release of Ganacci’s Fight Dirty music video, the world of Null & Void was introduced to a global online audience who collectively recognised how under utilised these dynamic characters were and passionately pleaded for the music video to be turned into a series.
After another year spent refining the concept and developing the narrative, we’ve finally completed our series bible for Null & Void and are ready to share it with the world. Needless to say, we love it. This show is the culmination of our life’s work as dedicated filmmakers and ardent cinephiles. We’ve poured every ounce of our creative juices into crafting it up to this point, and we’re super excited to give it so much more.
All we want is to make a series that thrills and inspires others as much as we were by the anime we watched as teens and young adults. For us, this is pure, unabashed childhood dream realisation in the making. Call it hyperbole if you want, but we feel it’s true: Null & Void is the show we were put on this planet to make.
