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Cariri e Xulius

Format
  • Original series
  • 8 episodes + opening
Genre

80s dark fantasy

Directed by

Gean

Pipeline
  • 100% AI
  • 2026

The idea

What if Brazil’s gym culture were an eighties sword-and-sorcery epic? As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius takes the language of fitness memes and plays it completely straight: two oversized heroes, a quest across a cursed land, armies of Ectomorphs, healers, taverns and a final battle, shot as if it were a lost VHS from 1986.

Audience Instagram, first 30 days
Views
10M+
Views on Ep 04
5.7M
Likes on Ep 04
417K
New followers
53K

The Series

Season One8 episodes

As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 01
Ep 01 · 50″ Episode 01
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 02
Ep 02 · 1′28″ Episode 02
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 03
Ep 03 · 1′49″ Episode 03
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 04
Ep 04 · 1′51″ Episode 04
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 05
Ep 05 · 2′10″ Episode 05
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 06
Ep 06 · 1′56″ Episode 06
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 07
Ep 07 · 1′57″ Episode 07
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Episode 08
Ep 08 · 2′19″ Episode 08

Extras2 films

As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Opening Titles
Opening · 1′15″ Opening Titles
As Aventuras de Cariri e Xulius, Behind the Scenes
Extra · 1′15″ Behind the Scenes

The Universe5 films

Marombushi, Ep 01
Spin-off · 47″ Marombushi, Ep 01
Marombushi, Ep 02
Spin-off · 1′23″ Marombushi, Ep 02
Renato e Bisteca, Ep 01
Spin-off · 1′09″ Renato e Bisteca, Ep 01
Renato e Bisteca, Ep 02
Spin-off · 56″ Renato e Bisteca, Ep 02
Guardiões do Marombaverso
Spin-off · 57″ Guardiões do Marombaverso

Episode guide

  1. Ep 01Cariri and Xulius set out on their quest.50″
  2. Ep 02The heroes meet a possible ally.1′28″
  3. Ep 03An army of Ectomorphs stands between them and young Bisteca and Tigrão.1′49″
  4. Ep 04Strange pains take over Xulius’s body, and the search for a healer begins.1′51″
  5. Ep 05Looking for the healer in Xique-Xique, they find a surprise in a tavern.2′10″
  6. Ep 06Saved at the last moment, Cariri regains consciousness.1′56″
  7. Ep 07Waking up somewhere unexpected, Xulius has to understand his new powers.1′57″
  8. Ep 08Training for the final battle begins.2′19″

The craft

Everything rests on continuity. The same faces, costumes and creatures hold from the first shot to the last, across eight episodes and a growing cast. The look borrows from eighties fantasy cinema, with practical-effects light, film grain and matte-painting skies, while the writing stays local, fast and absurd. Each episode runs one to two and a half minutes: made for the feed, cut like cinema.

The universe

The audience asked for more, and the world kept growing. Marombushi sends Cariri-san, Xuliu-san and Bisteka-san to feudal Japan, Renato e Bisteca and Guardiões do Marombaverso open new corners of the same universe, and every chapter feeds the next.

Why it matters

Cariri e Xulius is the model for the Spritz entertainment front: original IP that builds its own audience before it ever needs a client, and a world ready to extend into new seasons, branded episodes and collaborations.

Credits

Directed by

Gean

Released
  • June to October 2026
  • Instagram
Studio

Spritz Entertainment

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