Kotaku · May 2026
Kotaku covered Spellbrush's upcoming tactical SRPG, described as a pixel-art strategy game about reclaiming lost colors and restoring glory.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Spellbrush is an anime-focused generative-AI studio and game company best known for niji・journey, plus original games and tools including Arrowmancer, Cake Duel, and Waifu Labs.
Primary product
niji・journey
Founded
2018
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Computer Games
Sub-industry
Generative AI studio / anime AI
Offices
11 jobs at Spellbrush
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$245K
Latest round
Seed · Aug 2018
Latest amount
$120K
Leadership
CEO
Creative Director / Co-Founder
CTO / Co-Founder
CFO
Investors
Anime-first, high-craft, no-compromise on gameplay and visual art, with a small-team, high-ownership, fast-paced research-and-build culture and a preference for close collaboration between SF and Tokyo teams.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
Public job postings show broad salary bands of roughly $60K-$180K for engineering roles and $75K-$200K for some non-engineering roles; a recent AI Anime Researcher posting showed $125K-$150K.
Pricing
Paid subscription for niji・journey; game/product monetization for studio titles
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
under $1M (company/LinkedIn profile estimates about $800K)
Estimated monthly visits
6.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Kotaku · May 2026
Kotaku covered Spellbrush's upcoming tactical SRPG, described as a pixel-art strategy game about reclaiming lost colors and restoring glory.
Jennifer Lai on LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Jennifer Lai announced Niji 7, highlighting multimodal generation, better coherence, improved text rendering, and stronger style-reference handling for anime video generation.
CGWORLD.jp · Jul 2025
CGWORLD reported the launch of Niji Video, a video-generation feature for niji・journey developed by Midjourney and Spellbrush, and noted that it was a paid subscription feature.