Shichigahama de Mitsuketa is a 20-minute animated short based on the March 11, 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan one decade ago. The anime conveys lessons learned from the earthquake and the 10-year history of Shichigahama's reconstruction.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Tora-chan and Miike are working on the side of a tuna steamship and manage to run afoul of the short-tempered captain. But the captain makes plenty of trouble on his own!
Created by Maria Perego, Topo Gigio has been a beloved character for more than two decades. This animated TV series features numerous exciting stories and introduces many friends.
Topo Gigio is the first mouse astronaut to travel the Milky Way. Can a mouse become an astronaut? Well, Topo Gigio has come from a year 2,388,400 years ahead in the future. He is friendly and can talk with humans. He makes friends with his neighbors including a girl, her pet mouse, cats, and other mice.
(Source: Nippon Animation)
Based on a novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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Special based on the manga by Ooya Kazumi, published in Betsukomi Flower Comics.
An all-male pop group doubles as a detective agency. The cute girl member of the agency is kidnapped when one of the men's past returns to trouble them all in the present.
(Source: sandg-anime)
A young girl named Tomoko visits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. There she has a mysterious meeting with Sadako, the little girl who was 2 years old when the U.S. dropped the bomb on her city during WWII and 11 when she died from the effects of radiation poisoning. Sadako takes Tomoko on an eye-opening journey.
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Music video directed by Kohta Morie for the song Spring Thief by Yorushika.
Based on the same-named book by Ooshiro Tatsuhiro.
A documentary anime retelling the shipwreck of the freight boat Tsushima Maru, which was carrying a class of schoolchildren home in July 1944 when it was attacked and sunk by an American submarine. Produced by the surviving family members of the Tsushima Maru. A highly realistic and carefully crafted film in which the realism is thrown into contrast by the deformed character designs by Kiyomizu Kazutoshi.
(Source: pelleas.net)
Fate had never been kind to Ji Ning. Wracked by illnesses and infirm his entire life on Earth, Ning knew early on that he would die as a teenager. What he didn’t know was that there really was such a thing as life after death, and that the universe was a far larger place than he thought. A lucky twist of fate (one of the few in Ning’s life) meant that Ning was reborn into a world of Immortals and monsters, of Ki Refiners and powerful Fiendgods, a world where Dynasties lasted for millions of years. A world which is both greater and yet also smaller than he ever could imagine. He would have the opportunity to join them, and in this life, Ning swore to himself, he would never let himself be weak again! The Era he was born into was a Desolate one, but Ning would make it his era.
(Source: Novel Update)
A Tsutaetai, Kokoro no Tegami (wedding, elderly aid, and funeral company) commissioned work from Tekken showing the love of a father and the complications as he ages.
The title character of Tomoe ga Yuku! (Tomoe Will Go!) is gutsy enough to roller skate down freeways for thrills. After losing a friend in a roller skating accident, Tomoe joins a stunt group called Green Ship. Although still mourning her friend's death, Tomoe has no reservations about embracing a relationship with the group's leader, Kazusa. Soon she discovers Green Ship is a front for an assassin training camp. She must flee her new life and love and rekindle her fiery spirit in order to fight against the organization which wants her dead.
(Source: Animerica Extra December 2001)
There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well, did neither badly. They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and does nothing but work. The younger one goes steadily his way. One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato...
Graduate Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Sachiko is an unhappy girl who is very picky about food, which is why she doesn't get enough energy and performs poorly at school PE classes. One night, a white rabbit appears and takes her to the Land of the Moon. There, she meets a princess who looks exactly like her except that she is active, happy and healthy. This meeting inspires Sachiko to change her ways.
This is an educational story based on Aesop's Fables, which was produced after A Frog is a Frog (1929) and Two Worlds (1929). It is faithfully adapted from Aesop's fable about a farmer and his son taking a donkey to an auction, in which the two are completely influenced by what others say without having their own way of thinking and end up losing the donkey.