Drama Anime

Chibi shorts of the V.A.×2D Entertainer project GET UP! GET LIVE!

The project's story centers on aspiring comedian entertainers who all gather at SSS, a talent agency for comedians. The story portrays the friction and jealousy in their rivaling careers, as well as their admiration towards industry veterans, their disappointments, and the obstacles to their success as they aspire to become the greatest entertainers in Japan and the world.

(Source: Anime News Network)

After graduating from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sun Jiayou returned home to inherit a traditional Chinese medicine shop. He found that although the people here would not use medicine as a treatment, they had own spiritual system. To realize his grandfather’s dream, he plans to promote Chinese medicine in a different world. However, the spirit messenger considers it a big threat. In some confrontations with the spirit messenger, he discovers a greater mystery.

Sonnet is a cyborg/esper from a harsh background and now trained to be the ultimate warrior and most powerful weapon in the world. She is sent to Japan to watch Komatsuzaki Lan, who is thought to be controlled by the rage of the esper Akai Kiba (Crimson Fang). Lan is a quiet girl who knows she's different from everybody else and starts to show signs of Crimson Fang after coming into contact with Sonnet. In the course of fighting with Lan, Sonnet starts to rediscover her humanity. At the same time Lan has to fight to retain her humanity and control the Crimson Fang.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Short specials added to DVDs and Blu-rays.

Sakura Momoko's teacher assigns the third grade to draw an image based on their favorite song to enter a contest. Momoko loves a song she recently learned during her music class and is anxious to make a good drawing based on it. On her way to meet her relatives in Shizuoka, she meets Shouko Kimura, a university student who occasionally draws portraits at the local train station and plans to also participate in an art contest. Fascinated by her illustrations, Sakura meets Kimura once again. Shouko is enchanted by Momoko's sympathy and honesty. They quickly become friends and end up inspiring each other in their own way.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Futatsu no Kurumi is a short story following 12-year-old Ayaka as she is teleported back in time to the fire bombing of Tokyo in 1945 and covers her experiences in this very different and unfamiliar environment.

(Source: Saizen-Fansubs)

A monkey tricks a crab and steals his food. More crabs arrive and begin fighting the monkey.

(Source: AniDB)

A boy is always alone, at school, or at home. One day, he finds a sandlot on the way home and thinks of making a ‘town’ of his own. Another boy was watching his play and starts to imitate him.

1st year work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation

(Source: Geidai Animation)

This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the baby lion Buru-buru, who lost her mother. Although Tezuka Osamu planned to create an entire musical animated series for this story focused on the feelings of the mother dog and baby lion, this animated production was the only one never completed.

(Source: en.tezuka.co.jp)

A tranquil forest and all of its residents must face the destruction of man. A squirrel, born and raised in the forrest, fights to defend his home and faces trials and adversities along the way.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Picture drama included in the Blu-ray release of Kidou Senshi Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory.

Universal Century 0083. Inside the Zanzibar-class mobile cruiser Lili Marleen, Cima Garahau, the former Zeon M.A.U. (Marine Amphibious Unit) Commander, was battling her recurring nightmare of being abandoned by Zeon military during One Year War and drifting in Space in the past 4 years. This picture drama also recounts Cima's past and present encounter with Anavel Gato, as well as introducing a new character, the Zeon fugitive Geil Hunt.

(Source: Gundam Wiki)

In 193 AD, Guo Jia presented the dark military strategy of "slaughtering one city to subdue ten," leading Cao Cao to attack Xuzhou under the pretext of "avenging his father." Historical records state that "hundreds of thousands of men and women were killed." Liaoyuan Huo, posing as Zhao Yun, aided the people of Xuzhou in their desperate defense, outwitting and outmaneuvering Cao Cao's army, while secretly recruiting Liu Bei to join the fight against Cao Cao. Lu Bu, lying in wait in Chenliu, launched a surprise attack on Cao Cao's rear, following the advice of his strategist Chen Gong. Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi also arrived in Xuzhou, stirring up the war. The Battle of Xuzhou saw Lu Bu, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Zhao Yun, and other powerful figures engage in a fierce battle that shook the world. After this battle, the tables have turned in Xuzhou. Cao Cao then turns his attention to his powerful northern enemy, and a top-level strategic game that would determine the fate of the world begins.

(Source: Bilibili, translated)

Music video directed by Ken Yamamoto for the song Promise by Eve, with arrangement by Tomoki Numano.

A 30 minute OVA composed of 5 Koji Nanjo’s music videos, featuring never seen scenes between Takuto and him, with an original art gallery by Minami Ozaki at the end.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)

Once Upon a Time... Space differs from the rest of the Once Upon a Time titles in the sense that the series revolve on a dramatic content rather than an educational premise. The series still has a handful of educational information (such as an episode discussing the rings of Planet Saturn).

The series succeeds Once Upon a Time... Man. It reprises almost the entire totality of the characters of the previous series and adapts them into a science-fiction context.

The story tells about the confrontation of many big galactic powers. Among them there is the Omega Confederation, of which Earth is a member of; the military republic of Cassiopée led by the general Le Teigneux; and a powerful supercomputer which controls an army of robots. Once Upon a Time... Space features the adventures of Pierrot (son of colonel Pierre and president Pierrette) and his friend Psi.

(Source: MAL)

Based on Kawai Katsutoshi's manga of the same name, published in Weekly Shounen Sunday, Monkey Turn is a sports anime based around professional speed boat racing. The anime's protagonist, Tadano Kenji, is too short to follow his dream of becoming a professional baseball player, but his baseball coach recommends him to boat racing. One day Tadano-san unexpectedly meets his old girlfriend and they exchange promises: in return for her being faithful to him, he is charged with becoming Japan's best racer within three years. The eponymous "Monkey Turn" is a boat maneuver Kenji-san thought up while visiting his girlfriend. The Monkey Turn gives Kenji quite the advantage over other boaters, but is it enough for him become the best?

(Source: AniDB)

The story centers on a group of pharmaceutical company employees who embark on a mountain-climbing trip together and who encounter tragedy at the hands of mysterious monkeys when they reach the top.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Tanabata is approaching but Kyousuke, being his usual indecisive self, is unable to invite Madoka to a concert and later gets beaten up after making Hikaru cry. In a hospital room Madoka approaches a sleeping Kyousuke, and then...

(Source: AniDB)