About AKONIC

An independent multimedia company building original story worlds.

AKONIC Entertainment is an independent multimedia company developing original, franchise-ready stories across television, film, animation, publishing, and digital media.

Built across three divisions, AKONIC Studios, AKONIC Animation, and AKONIC Publishing, the company originates and develops stories designed to grow into long-term creative ecosystems.

Every project begins in its most natural medium, moving fluidly across formats and growing into interconnected worlds.

Our Divisions

AKONIC Studios

Original Film & Television

Home to No One Like Us and future live-action storytelling.

AKONIC Animation

Original Animated Storytelling

Home to Animationville and future animated worlds.

AKONIC Publishing

Editorial & Written Worlds

Home to Propriety Society and future written publications.

We Believe

Storytelling is expansive.
When designed without limitation, stories become worlds.

Alexis K. Owens, Founder and CEO of AKONIC Entertainment

Alexis K. Owens

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Alexis K. Owens is the founder of AKONIC Entertainment. She has spent approximately fifteen years working across entertainment and media as an actor, writer, filmmaker, and multimedia storyteller, with work reaching PBS, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, and Tubi. A Mass Communication graduate and former multimedia specialist at Duke University, she is also the creator and writer of No One Like Us, the flagship series of AKONIC Entertainment.

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AKONIC Studios

No One Like Us

A character-driven dramedy about finally choosing yourself.

AKONIC Publishing

Propriety Society

An editorial lifestyle brand exploring modern life through wit, culture, and conversation.

AKONIC Animation

Animationville

An imaginative animated town where adventure begins.

AKONIC Studios A Digital Sitcom

Who do you become
when you stop living
for everyone else?

Lisa Turner finally gets her own apartment, her own career, and her own life, and discovers that breaking free was just the beginning. A comedy about boundaries, friendship, and blooming late.

Vertical Sitcom Comedy · Drama Season 1 Streaming Multi-Platform
No One Like Us official poster featuring the five main cast members
Watch The World

Watch the Digital Sitcom

Start where it all began. Watch Episode One of No One Like Us.

Series Overview

Grounded humor.
Emotional truth.

100K+Views & Counting
20Episodes · Season 1
12Cast Members

A late-blooming, high-spirited woman in her early 30s takes her first real step toward independence, only to discover that freedom requires boundaries she's never been taught to set, especially with the people she loves most.

Comedic in rhythm, dramatic in truth, No One Like Us follows Lisa and her tight-knit circle of friends as love, obligation, and identity collide. In the lineage of The Jeffersons, Living Single, and Insecure, with a modern answer to the myth that your 30s are supposed to look figured out.

The Story Continues

What began as a
digital sitcom has grown into
something much bigger.

No One Like Us first introduced audiences to Lisa Turner through a remotely produced digital sitcom filmed across three states using cell phones.

Today, that same world has expanded into an original American dramedy that takes us back to where Lisa's journey began, still living with and working for her overbearing mother as she struggles to build a life that's finally her own.

The Digital Sitcom
The digital sitcom begins to show what happened after she left.
Season One · Streaming Now
The American Dramedy
The American dramedy tells the story of why she had to.
Scripted · Seeking Financing
AKONIC Studios

No One Like Us

An Original American Dramedy
No One Like Us original series dramedy logline: Thirty, optimistic, and convinced she's painfully behind schedule, Lisa Turner still lives with and works for her overbearing mother. While everyone around her seems to be checking off life's biggest milestones, Lisa juggles building a career, finding love, and defining success on her own terms as she creates a life that's finally her own.

Thirty, optimistic, and convinced she's painfully behind schedule, Lisa Turner still lives with and works for her overbearing mother. While everyone around her seems to be checking off life's biggest milestones, Lisa juggles building a career, finding love, and defining success on her own terms as she creates a life that's finally her own.

35 MinEpisodes
Pilot ScriptComplete
Pitch DeckComplete
Series BibleComplete
The materials are finished. We're seeking financing and creative partners to bring the series to screen.
Meet The Characters

Five friends. One mama.
Six different versions of growing up.

Lisa Turner, wearing a white bucket hat against a hot pink background
Lisa
The Late Bloomer

Finally choosing herself after a lifetime of living for everyone else.

Darrin in a pink blazer against a blue background
Darrin
The Grounded Protector

Steady and present. The calm at the center of Lisa's new life.

Rene singing into a microphone against a yellow background
Rene
The Hidden Endurer

The funniest one in the room, carrying more than she ever shows.

Shaun in a football jersey against a red background
Shaun
The Player

Still living off the echo of who he used to be back in college.

Kesha in a cream blazer against an orange background
Kesha
The No-Nonsense Friend

Catches flights, not feelings. Ten steps ahead, or so she says.

Mama Sheryl at her desk, looking back over her shoulder
Mama Sheryl
The Matriarch

The woman Lisa loves most, even when Mama Sheryl's love looks like control.

Behind No One Like Us

How do you produce
a scripted sitcom
from three states?

We're documenting the process.

Get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, production insights, and first looks at upcoming episodes.

See inside the world of No One Like Us.

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The Next Chapter

Help bring the next
chapter to life.

The digital sitcom proved what was possible.

Now we're expanding No One Like Us into an original American dramedy. If you believe in independent storytelling and would like to help us continue developing the series, we'd be grateful for your support.

Every contribution helps us move the story forward.

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AKONIC Animation

Welcome to
Animationville

An imaginative animated town where adventure begins.
A Living Town

Every street leads to a new adventure, and every bridge carries you into another story.

Celestial City poster: Love. Power. Destiny. The stars never lie.
Featured Story

Celestial City

Animated Fantasy Sci-Fi Drama
When the rulers of the planets are pulled into a growing conflict that threatens the balance of the universe, ancient loyalties, forbidden love, and hidden destinies collide in a celestial kingdom where every choice reshapes the stars.
Series Overview

Celestial City is a vertical animated fantasy drama set in a universe where the planets exist as powerful kingdoms governed by rulers whose choices shape the cosmos. As alliances shift, secrets emerge, and destiny unfolds, each short episode reveals another piece of a larger story told one chapter at a time.

Follow the Journey as New Animated Worlds Continue to Grow.

Every Great Adventure
Starts Here.

See you in the next story.
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Propriety Society
AKONIC Publishing
An independent editorial publication covering culture, relationships, life & everything in between.
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Issue No. 04 · Desire & Intimacy

Sexual Energy as Creative Fuel

What Intimacy Teaches You About Making Art
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Issue No. 02 · July 22, 2026
Desire & Intimacy

Damn, You Turned Me Off: The Art of Sexual Tension

Picture this.

You wake up, feeling an insatiable hunger stirring deep within you. You check your period tracker app, and there it is, a bright blue ring, a flashing reminder that ovulation week is here. The week where every nerve ending seems to tingle, igniting a primal urge that leaves you feeling as if you could bite through a damn brick. You're in your 30s, close enough, and everyone around you keeps promising it only gets more intense from here. You're soaked, like you've just run a marathon in your sleep while your hormones rearranged your entire being.

You glance to the left and see your Rose sitting there; maybe it's charged, maybe it's not, but it doesn't matter because it's not what you crave. What you yearn for is the weight of another body pressed against yours, the thrill of someone whispering something filthy in your ear, asking you…

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Issue No. 01 · July 14, 2026
Ambition & Becoming

You Had the Right Idea Though…

You didn't get it wrong.

What if your idea was actually a good one, even if the timing didn't look the way you thought it would?

Hell, maybe it wasn't the timing at all.

Could be nobody ever told you it was a good idea.

I think that affects people more than we like to admit because validation is nice. It feels good and, truthfully, whatever you're told long enough, you start to believe anyway. If people keep questioning your idea, you question it too… until one day you simply

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