Marking Our First Anniversary
on Billboards in New York,
Shibuya and Yokohama
To mark Tokyo AI Visuals LLC’s first anniversary, our anniversary film is running on outdoor screens in New York, Shibuya and Yokohama from Friday, October 16 through Wednesday, November 4.
Update, October 25, 2026: Footage from the screenings
Watch the footage on YouTube ↗
We filmed the anniversary film playing in Times Square, on Shibuya Ai Vision and on YOKOHAMA VISION, and cut it into a 32-second record. New York and Shibuya have finished; Yokohama runs through Wednesday, November 4. Read the screening report →
Our original character KANA also reports on the screenings as anchor of KANA NEWS. About KANA NEWS →
Update, October 20, 2026: Full film released
Our first-anniversary film, on air at Shibuya Ai Vision since Friday, October 16, is now on YouTube in full. From Thursday, October 22 it also plays in Times Square, New York, and on YOKOHAMA VISION in Yokohama.
Update, October 13, 2026: Trailer released
Watch the trailer on YouTube ↗
Ahead of the screenings, we have released a trailer for our first-anniversary film. It features our original characters KANA, Arthur and Red.
Screening overview
- Event
- Tokyo AI Visuals LLC first-anniversary film, shown on outdoor screens
- Period
- Friday, October 16 – Wednesday, November 4, 2026
- Cities
- New York / Shibuya / Yokohama
- Plays
- 1,355 in total across three cities
Screens
- New York
- Screen: Times Square, Billboard 1 (Pelé)
Address: 1560 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 (between W 46th and 47th St.)
Date: October 22 (New York local time)
Plays: about 88 - Shibuya
- Screen: Shibuya Ai Vision
Address: 1-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Miyamasuzaka-shita crossing)
Period: Friday, October 16 – Thursday, October 22
Time: daily, around 20:09
Plays: 7 - Yokohama
- Screen: YOKOHAMA VISION
Address: Side of the Yokohama Prince Kaikan Building, 1-2-9 Minamisaiwai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa
Period: Thursday, October 22 – Wednesday, November 4
Hours: 6:00–24:00
Plays: 1,260
Notes
· Screening times and play counts may change depending on each screen's operations.
· If you film a screening, please take care not to block foot traffic.
· Footage from each city is now available.
- Event
- Tokyo AI Visuals first-anniversary film, shown on outdoor screens
- Screening period
- Friday, October 16 – Wednesday, November 4, 2026
- Cities
- New York / Shibuya / Yokohama
- Programme
- First-anniversary film
- Organiser
- Tokyo AI Visuals LLC
We began in October 2025, in a single small room in Nihonbashi, Tokyo — holding a technology whose shape was still forming, and a single line to steer by: to open up imagined futures through film.
In this first year we have worked on more than 140 productions, and — including KANA’s work as KanaWorks_AI before we were founded — we have received 23 awards in Japan and abroad. We now publish nine of our own games and apps, several of which have reached the upper ranks of the App Store and Google Play, along with free creator tools and a public disaster-preparedness site. Our games and apps are now available in 172 countries and regions. None of it would exist without the clients who trusted us, the players who picked up our games, and everyone who has helped along the way.
To mark the anniversary we have made a short film, and from Friday, October 16 through Wednesday, November 4 it is playing on outdoor screens in New York, Shibuya and Yokohama — fragments of the worlds built over this first year, passing above three cities on either side of an ocean.
We chose billboards deliberately. Film, we think, is not something you ask permission to watch; it is something that catches your eye while you are walking and makes you stop. We wanted it to reach not only people seated in front of a screen, but someone crossing an intersection in New York, someone pushing through the crowd in Shibuya, someone walking by the water in Yokohama.
If you pass by, we hope you will look up.
Into our second year, we intend to keep our footing — not swept along by the technology, and not losing sight of the one thing that matters: the wish to tell a story worth watching.