Prologus: Bionic Fantasy

Prologus: Bionic Fantasy is the prequel to Bionic Fantasy, intended to expand on the shared setting of Planet Ankoku Nui. It was officially announced earlier than GokaiWhite intended in response to Hajime Tabata's departure from Square-Enix.

Setting
The story takes place on Ankoku Nui before the Toa Metru and Toa Luminus arrived to fight Makuta Scryptorek.

Characters

 * Gainaz - A young man living on Ankoku Nui.
 * Zonan - A young woman and Gainaz's lover.
 * Crono - A Matoran who lived on Ankoku Nui long before Gainaz and Zonan.
 * Choujintei - The mysterious ruler of Ankoku Nui.

Story
In a time before time, a Great God King brought humans to an ancient planet they began to call Ankoku Nui. They lived in peace for 1087 years, until a dark force starts causing people living there to die at seventeen years of age. Five people are brought together by the sudden appearance of a Matoran, which leads the six through a series of events that will uncover the mystery of the curse and, ultimately, the truth about their ruler.

Themes
GokaiWhite originally intended to wait on revealing Prologus until he has a creative team to make a movie out of it, but Hajime Tabata's departure from Square Enix has caused him to reveal the proof-of-concept for a story he intends to write, partially as a sort of criticism of the decision to cancel three of the four new DLC episodes of Final Fantasy XV.

The idea of a mysterious pestilence that kills people when they reach 17 years old pays homage to one of the original concepts for Final Fantasy X, that "a person would reach the end of life at 17 years of age".

The setting of a seeming idyllic society being controlled by a divine monarch who Crono does not trust is meant to symbolize GokaiWhite's own disillusionment at certain aspects of today's world, such as the recent resurgence of "PC culture", the hypocrisies of most, if not all "SJWs", and his fears that Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" rhetoric and support for policies Gokai believes are morally unacceptable makes the nation of America come off as one that exalts arrogance, profit, and power at the expense of humility, compassion, and positive relations with the rest of the world.

Trivia

 * The 1087-year gap between humankind's setting on Ankoku Nui and the start of the events of Prologus: Bionic Fantasy is an allusion to the numbers of Final Fantasy games whose main protagonists appear in Bionic Fantasy.