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RA NO TABI

60 COMPLETED BOOKS. 40+ YEARS OF STORY. ONE CREATOR-OWNED UNIVERSE.

A South African mythological life-story universe built from fatherhood, separation, lived experience, martial arts, migration, love, consequence, humour and the long road home.

  • Creator-Owned
  • Complete Story Universe
  • Publishing & Rights Available
  • Screen & Animation
  • Games & Licensing
RIGHTS & PRODUCTION ENQUIRYREAD RA NO TABI

If a reading or social link does not open, write directly to eugene.addison@gmail.com.

Creative Direction

THE ARCHIVE IS THE ASSET.

RA NO TABI is not a loose concept or a single pitch. It is a developed fatherhood archive, a memoir, a life story, and a mythological comic universe — built over more than forty years, held in one continuity, and finished at sixty completed books.

The archive carries its own weight: characters with history, worlds with rules, arcs with consequence, dialogue that has been lived in, and a visual language that already exists on the page. This is source IP that has done the long, slow work most projects never begin.

The proof

RA NO TABI proves the IP.

Eugene Addison proves the creator.

Baboon Eugene Addison proves the personality.

The Asset

A complete transmedia source-IP library

RA NO TABI is offered as a complete transmedia source-IP library, not merely a single comic concept. The current creator-declared archive is 60 completed books spanning more than four decades of life-story material, held under one continuity and one rights holder.

The archive is adaptation-ready source IP: characters, worlds, arcs, dialogue and visual language already exist in finished form. Professional screenplay, game and film development still applies — this material shortens the road, it does not replace the craft.

Archive at a glance

60
Completed books
40+
Years of material
1
Rights holder

  • Sequential Storytelling

    Comic, manga and graphic-novel storytelling across the full archive, built with dialogue, panels, scenes and recurring visual motifs.

  • Prose Architecture

    Prose novel plot architecture and sample chapters drawn from the same continuity.

  • Animation & Anime Material

    Animation and anime development material developed from visually established characters and worlds.

  • Game Concepts

    Game story and game-design concepts rooted in the universe's mechanics of consequence, archive and record.

  • Merchandise Concepts

    Merchandise catalogue concepts covering collectibles, apparel, art and licensed product directions.

  • Art & Continuity Archive

    High-resolution artwork, covers, character and world references, and a maintained continuity archive.

Featured Series

RA NO TABI: MAGIKA — The Magic of Thoth

MAGIKA is a ten-book series within the completed RA NO TABI universe. It explores Thoth's magic through fatherhood, family, South African lived experience, Egyptian mythology, humour, ritual, consequence, archive and record, and Ra's journey as father and scribe.

The ten books below are the canonical MAGIKA series. They are presented in their intended order.

  1. 01
    Book 01

    THE SCRIBE OF THOTH

  2. 02
    Book 02

    MUMMY FILES — BURIAL TREASURE

  3. 03
    Book 03

    MONKEY BUSINESS — SPELL OF AVOIDANCE

  4. 04
    Book 04

    THE BOOGYMAN — DWELLERS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION

  5. 05
    Book 05

    BLOOD OATH

  6. 06
    Book 06

    THE NIGHT RA DIED

  7. 07
    Book 07

    SOUTHERN ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE OF RA

  8. 08
    Book 08

    PLANET TIAMAT (EARTH'S ALIVE)

  9. 09
    Book 09

    UNDER THE SUN (WE ARE NOT APART)

  10. 10
    Book 10

    THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF RA (BABOON CONSPIRACY THEORY)

RIGHTS & PRODUCTION ENQUIRYREAD RA NO TABI

The Story

What does a father become?

A separated Cape Town father accepts divine power to protect his daughters, breaks the sacred condition attached to it, and is forced to record every consequence until he can become the man who deserves the road home.

RA NO TABI moves through Cape Town, Johannesburg and Frankfurt am Main, Egyptian cosmology, Thoth's Archives, Anubis, Heka, martial arts, romance, migration, exile, testimony, humour, failure and return.

“What does a father become when love is all he has left?”

Commercial Pathways

Rights available across every medium

01

Publishing

Comics, manga, graphic novels, prose novels, illustrated editions, translation and territorial rights.

02

Film / Television

Option or license by book, series or whole universe: live action, streaming and feature film.

03

Animation / Anime

Serialized and feature adaptation developed from visually established source material.

04

Games / Interactive

Playable prototype development exists alongside game-story, world and design material spanning narrative action RPG, fighting, exploration, archive/consequence systems, driving and recorded-events concepts. Final engine, gameplay loop, production scope and commercial release remain open to publisher or co-development partnership.

05

Consumer Products

Merchandise, collectibles, apparel, art, stationery, toys and licensed products.

06

Audio / Performance

Audiobook, audio drama and other defined performance rights.

07

Whole-Universe Conversation

Acquisition, strategic master license, co-production, first-look or a defined multi-rights partnership.

Exact rights, territory, term, exclusivity, approvals, credit, payment, reversion and reserved rights are subject to written agreement.

Screen / Production Depth

Built for long-form screen

The 60-book library is story-rich and built as visual sequential storytelling with dialogue, scenes, action, character beats, environments and recurring motifs. Major series are deep enough to support multi-season development, subject to professional adaptation and commissioning.

Individual books can also be assessed as feature-film, animated-special or limited-series source material. Professional partners would still handle screenplay/teleplay adaptation, budgeting, casting, scheduling, financing, the animation or game pipeline and distribution.

Press & Independent Coverage

Independent coverage of the completed universe

Library of Erana / A. L. Butcher — Published 9 August 2026

Book Spotlight: RA NO TABI Volume 777 — Jackpot of Destiny

Independent spotlight introducing Volume 777 as the first-read doorway into the completed RA NO TABI universe.

Read the feature →

Upcoming coverage — scheduled, not yet published

  • Eugene Addison — Swift Six Author Interview

    Library of Erana — scheduled 12 August 2026. Link added once live.

  • Baboon Eugene Addison — Swift Six Character Interview

    Library of Erana — scheduled 17 August 2026. Link added once live.

Independent coverage now live; additional author and character interviews scheduled.

Secret First-Read Path

Begin where Thoth intended

  1. 1

    Volume 777 — Jackpot of Destiny

  2. 2

    Volume 6 — RA NO TABBY

  3. 3

    Volume 5 — The Stars That Never Set

  4. 4

    Volume 1 — The Death of Eugene Addison

  5. 5

    FIRE KING Chapter 1 — Touch Down in Africa

Yes, Volume 777 comes first. No, Thoth has not misplaced the index. The order is intentional and designed so a second read changes the first.

True-Life Heart

Fatherhood, and a very long separation

RA NO TABI is autobiographically inspired. It transforms lived experience through fiction, myth and visual storytelling — the years, the distance, the failures and the returns are reshaped into a mythology rather than reported as a diary. Its emotional centre is fatherhood and long separation.

“Dedicated to Deeba, my Night Sun, and BooBoo, my Sun. Daddy loves you.”

Creator

Eugene Addison — Re

Eugene Addison is the creator, writer, archive keeper and rights controller behind RA NO TABI, based in Cape Town, South Africa. He works under the creative name Re (pronounced ray). Thoth Archives is the imprint.

His background spans technology and software testing, martial arts, a life lived between South Africa and Germany, visual storytelling, and the discipline of maintaining long-form archive continuity across decades of material.

Production Transparency›

Story, characters, autobiographical source material, continuity and final creative authority are Eugene Addison's. AI-assisted tools have been used under his direction in parts of visual production, editing, remastering, design, formatting and workflow acceleration. Detailed production disclosure can be supplied where a recipient's policy requires it.

Creative QA Implemented

Could this page belong to anybody else?

The page was built as a creative-direction proof object, not generic corporate material. Five questions were applied throughout — and the answers are the reason this site exists in this voice.

  1. 1

    Would a creative director send this?

  2. 2

    Would a publisher understand it?

  3. 3

    Would an investor know the proposal?

  4. 4

    Would someone remember Eugene Addison?

  5. 5

    Could this page belong to anybody else?

  6. ✦

    The answer is no. This page belongs to RA NO TABI.