Miru · The Summer We Saw Margaret Astoria · OR
A feature animated film · IP Frontier Studio

The Summer
We Saw Margaret

A six-year-old, his tired mother, and a road trip down Highway 101 to meet a gray whale that has a name.

A four-quadrant family audience — children 6–10 and the parents beside them · Original IP, fully developed and rights-ready

Scroll into the road
Origin & ownership

An IP born from a market signal — held in a single hand.

OSI · Origin signal intelligence
Origin Signal Intelligence
G03 · Tier 1
Validated across 5 of 12 linguistic markets analysed

The signal: the silent roar of contemporary parenthood. Detected across cultural corpora in English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. No existing IP occupies the territory.

Rights · Chain of title
Every right in one hand
100% owned or controlled
Single titleholder · No co-authors · No encumbrances

Every layer — novel, screenplay, software, art, score, and brand — owned or controlled by one rights-holder. License all of it, or any single part, from a single party.

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The principle

Personality by design.

Most IPs earn a personality after they succeed. Ours are born with one.

OSI
finds the void — a cultural tension no character answers yet.
IQVA
proves the character can hold it — six dimensions, before a euro is committed.
Four verticals
give it one body — the same someone in publishing, screen, EdTech and product.
Five seconds
the test — recognize the character anywhere, instantly. Otherwise it isn't personality yet.

OSI (where) + IQVA (whether) + 4 verticals (how) + <5s (proof) = Personality by design.

ASTORIA GAS 101 AQUARIUM DEPOE BAY HERON POINT
About the property
Stop 01 · Astoria, Oregon

The morning that looked like all the others.

Miru is six, and his notebook is full of whales. So when his father cancels the weekend, the real surprise isn't the cancellation.

It's his mother. For once, Sara doesn't just sigh — she tells Miru to put on his shoes.

The studio behind Miru — OSI signal G03, IQVA 4.80, three IPs in the catalog.

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GAS GAL 0.31 COFFEE $3
Feature treatment · 12 pages
Stop 02 · The gas station

A three-dollar coffee, counted and not bought.

That morning, without a word, Sara left the job she'd held for years. Now, at the gas station, Miru watches her count her coins and decide she doesn't need the coffee today.

He says nothing. But he records everything.

The full feature treatment — four acts, comparables, the whale scene, the studio architecture. Under NDA.

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HIGHWAY 101 TILLAMOOK COUNTY 68 MILES OREGON 101
Audiovisual · Cast & 90-sec scene
Stop 03 · Highway 101 · Tillamook

A song that lasts the whole afternoon.

Sara singing badly to the radio. Miru bouncing on the back seat with Mango. The 101 unfolds — Pacific to the right, Sitka spruce to the left.

The first time in years they have nothing else to do — and Miru meets a mother he didn't remember.

Meet the cast — Miru, Sara, Walt, Captain. Four ~4-second character intros plus the ~40-second whale scene animatic.

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AQUARIUM Oregon Coast Aquarium
EdTech · Miru's Ocean Atlas
Stop 04 · Newport · Oregon Coast Aquarium

She drives past the aquarium without stopping.

On the phone to his dad, Miru lists it all — sharks, sea lions, penguins. "But no whales. Whales don't fit in aquariums, Dad."

Then Sara drives straight past it — toward the coast, to see a real one in the open ocean. On the seat: the rose-margaritas suitcase, out of the closet at last.

Miru's Ocean Atlas — seven aquariums across four oceans. Every answer verified against official sources. Fully offline, no accounts, zero data collected.

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Editorial universe · 5 titles · ages 2 – adult
Stop 05 · Depoe Bay · World's smallest harbor

Eight houses. A wooden pier. A small ferry.

A fishing village at the end of the road. Miru asks again where they're going, and this time Sara answers: "We're going to an island."

He's speechless — bigger than any aquarium. At the dock, the ferry captain looks at him: "Today's the day, kid."

Five-title editorial universe — board book, Eleanor's Birds, junior novel, movie tie-in and collector art-of — plus the facsimile of Eleanor's Notebook. Rights available.

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Physical product · 6 anchor SKUs
Stop 06 · Crossing into the fog

The village disappeared behind a wall of white.

Just the two of them, the captain, Mango, and the rose-margaritas suitcase. Ahead in the fog, a slow light begins to pulse every twelve seconds.

Heron Point.

Mango plush (3 sizes), Eleanor's blue notebook, illustrated road-trip poster, travel bag, Margaret figurine, Walt's brass compass.

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For qualified partners · Under NDA
Stop 07 · Heron Point Lighthouse

The keeper, the lighthouse, and the whale with a name.

Walt, the gruff old keeper, has waited years for Margaret — a gray whale who returns to this bay. Tonight, under the lighthouse beam, the water stirs and she rises.

Miru wades in, lays his hand on her side: "Mom — you don't have to do anything more. I told you whales don't fit in aquariums." And his mother, softly: "That's why we had to come to Heron Point."

This is where Miru opens completely — the full creative canon and the studio's validation, gathered in one place. Everything sits behind a single NDA.

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And then —

For acquisition · distribution · licensing

The film, the universe,
and the studio behind it.

A feature animated film by IP Frontier Studio — based on the highest-scoring IP in the studio catalog. Full treatment, character bibles, four-vertical licensing structure, and the studio engine available to qualified partners under NDA.