Microdramas are such a rage these days that almost every type of company is in the attention economy space — whether they’re microdrama apps, social media giants (TikTok and Instagram) or streaming services (Peacock, Amazon Primeand India’s JioHotstar) — is building a product to take advantage of the opportunity.

Character.AI, which lets people chat with custom AI avatars, is also tapping into this emerging market by producing its own micro-dramas using AI characters. But there’s an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company’s core product: users over the age of 18 can interact with characters from the shows, ask them questions, and even act out different stories.

The startup is launching three micro-dramas to begin with: a romance series titled “Last Summer,” a horror show titled “The Nighttime Game” and a Hunger Games-like survival micro-drama titled “Edenfall.”

Character.AI says the dramas were created using AI production tools, and in the long term, it aims to help users create their own characters and series.

“Starting with a studio-led model, c.ai Series allows our production team to develop formats, refine workflows, and understand what audiences want from character-based local microdrama entertainment. Over time, the goal is to transform these learnings and workflows into creator tools, enabling users to create their own series from original characters and share them with a global audience.”

This is the latest of the startup’s recent features following its shift towards entertainment-focused features last year. In April, it teased a tool called Lorebook that users can use to create world-building information Can refer to, and launch. Another feature Books are called books that allow users to role-play themselves as characters from selected classic literature titles, or from them.

The company said Thursday it is also testing a feature dubbed c.ai FM, which will let users curate audio series, and another that lets you create fiction, called c.ai Reads. The Audio Series feature is currently available to select users under its experimental c.ai Labs program, which the company says is being used by professional writers to create serialized audio dramas.

There is definitely an audience for this kind of entertainment. Users spent more than 950 minutes on Character.AI each month in the first half of 2026, according to Sensor tower.