Marl Studio

We make manga and games with AI.

Marl Studio is an AI entertainment studio. We own our stories and games, and build free tools so a tiny team can ship them fast.

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The studio’s mascot, a chubby panda, lying on his tummy on a fluffy lavender blanket and drawing on a periwinkle tablet with a white stylus. Around him are a bowl of popcorn, two cookies, a juice box, a small brown teddy bear and a rubber duck.

Shh. I’m drawing the next one.

Our first series

Kai’s Little Family.

Cozy half-minute shorts about a gentle dad, a mom who gets jealous of her own daughter, and a four-year-old who always gets the last word.

  1. On the sofa, Kai squishes his daughter’s cheeks. She says: “Daaad! My cheeks are already squishy!”
  2. She giggles, “Hehehe! Stooop!”, while Aoi peeks over the back of the sofa, pouting. Aoi thinks: “Hmph.”
  3. Kai points at the candy jar: “Go pick yourself some candy.” His daughter: “YAY!”
  4. With their daughter gone, Kai turns to Aoi, who sits with her arms crossed: “So… what’s up?”
  5. Aoi points at her own cheeks: “Squeeze mine too.”
  6. Kai blushes and rubs his neck: “H-huh? Right now?” Aoi: “Right now.”
  7. Aoi leans in with her eyes shut, waiting: “Come on!!”
  8. Kai, red in the face, squishes her cheeks: “…There.” Aoi, blissful, with a little heart: “Mhm~”
  9. Their daughter comes back with her candy and catches them: “Hehehe~”
  10. Kai hides his red face, Aoi smiles, and their daughter laughs: “Mommy’s cheeks are squishy too!”

Cheek squish, the first episode. Posted 31 Oct, 2,649 views in its first 24 hours.

Watch the reelRead it panel by panel

More episodes.

  • Their daughter looks at the candy, then at her mom, and holds it out to Kai: “Daddy, trade!”

    The last candy

    One candy left in the jar, and two hands reach for it at once.

    Posted 1 Nov, 1,835 views in its first 12 hours

  • Their daughter points at her messy braid, cheeks puffed: “DADDY!!”

    Braids

    Kai tries to braid his daughter’s hair. Then Aoi asks for one too.

    Drawn, not posted yet

  • A close-up of her serious face, one finger raised: “Who do you love more?” “Me or Mommy?”

    Who do you love more?

    Their daughter climbs onto Kai’s lap with the question every dad dreads.

    Drawn, not posted yet

  • Her drawing: a wobbly stick figure of Kai with a scribble for hair.

    Headpats

    Their daughter gets a headpat for her drawing, so Aoi draws something too.

    Drawn, not posted yet

  • Aoi, hands on her cheeks, with hearts around her: “Best chef.”

    Taste test

    Kai is cooking, and both of them want the first bite.

    Drawn, not posted yet

Counted 2 Nov 2026, on Instagram

People are watching it.

2,649views

Cheek squish, our first manga reel, in its first 24 hours.

1,835views

The last candy, the second, in its first 12 hours.

13,025views

Across all 9 reels on the account so far.

10followers

What the account had when the first reel went out.

Games, on our own engine.

The driver's view in Pacenote: inside the cockpit on a gravel road through pine trees, with speed, gear and the stage time at the bottom.
The driver sees the road
The guide's view in Pacenote: the stage drawn as a line on a dark map, with the next corner calls listed on the right.
The guide sees the map

Two-player rally, in beta

Pacenote

One of you drives and can't see the map. The other reads the map and can't touch the wheel. You talk over the game's own voice chat, each on your own computer.

Play it on itch.io
A firefight in Shroud: the enemy squad, marked in red, takes cover behind green crates on an open yard, seen over the player's rifle.

First-person shooter, in testing with friends

Shroud

Between matches the enemy squad studies how you play, down to where you like to hold and which way you strafe. After each match it shows you what it learned.

shroud.himanshuat.com

Made with our own tools.

The tools are free. The stories and games are the business.

How it started.

Marl Studio is one person for now: Himanshu, 21, in Gurugram, full time since August 2026.

He built the video editors first. At the end of October he built Manga Studio in five days, and on 31 October posted its first story, Cheek squish, to an account with 10 followers. Most of the people who watched it didn’t follow us. Since then the stories and games come first.

Next: longer manga, and the story of how the studio started, drawn as one.

More about the studio

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