Psychological Anime

In this anime visual album, a mysterious driver heads deep into a post-apocalyptic hellscape toward a ferocious showdown with two monstrous opponents.

(Source: Netflix)

Music video directed by No.734 for the song Hachigatsu, Bou, Tsukiakari by Yorushika.

A victim of endless bullying, Aito Eyama is plagued by his classmates' constant taunts and beatings. However, through a fortuitous turn of events, he receives a strange invitations for the "Captivity Game," where victory promises unbelievable wealth. To participate, he must accept the role of captor and choose one victim to imprison for a month.

For Eyama, the only choice is Aya Kirishima, the ringleader of his bullies and the source of all his suffering. The rules of the game are simple: the jailer may do whatever they please with their inmate barring murder; but in order to win the game, the captor's identity must remain hidden. Exemption from the law, an isolated cell, and the funds to purchase supplies—all the necessary tools are provided.

As Eyama administers his sadistic revenge and "divine" retribution, he encounters other captors, each with their own hidden agendas. Meanwhile, Aya refuses to be a compliant prisoner and will go to any length to escape captivity. However, her endeavors threaten to awaken a darkness buried inside Eyama that craves to be unleashed.

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A crowd-funded anime short adaptation of Taiga Miyagawa's Tasuu Ketsu -Judgement Assizes- manga.

A wandering samurai finds a straw dummy with a magical sword, which makes him overwhelmingly powerful but begins to drive him mad.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Taehee who was discriminated against based on her looks goes to a plastic surgery clinic for a consultation, giving into the tempting proposal when Doha the handsome director steps in and tells her, "I'll make you beautiful." Thinking that this was the shortcut to happiness, Taehee accepts... but will she truly be able to obtain happiness by becoming beautiful?

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Music video directed and animated by Mah for the song Leo by Eve.

In 2050, the world climate has changed awfully. One rainy day,TAMALA saved a honeybee from drowning in the street gutter. His name was Kuronosuke, the last bee of the cat world and he invited TAMALA to the magical journey retrograding time and toward the near future. It's the huge panorama of biodiversity of the animals and plants in the earth history. However; the modern era coming, the civilization has been wasting and destroying the nature. Finally they were roving around the wild land where all the animals had become extinct. When TAMALA had little time to live without any foods finally, Kuronosuke made an offer to eat him for her to survive.

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Interactive collaborative multimedia music project between DECO*27 and Takuya Yamanaka.

Es awakens in the facility Milgram to find a strange talking animal named Jackalope staring them down. Soon, they learn their purpose: as the prison guard, Es must delve into the psyches of 10 inmates, each of them imprisoned for causing the loss of life in some form or another. Their fates rest in Es' hands. Do the means justify an end, and how much does intent matter if the result is death? No matter how the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, and just and cruel are blurred, there are only two options Es can choose between: innocent or guilty.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)

The list of released videos included in this entry are as follows:
1) Es - Undercover (エス - アンダーカバー), May 15, 2020.
2) Haruka - Weakness (ハルカ - 弱肉共食), Jun 12, 2020.
3) Yuno - Umbilical (ユノ - アンビリカル), Jul 17, 2020.
4) Fuuta - Bring It On (フータ - 事変上等), Sep 18, 2020.
5) Muu - After Pain (ムウ - アフターペイン), Oct 16, 2020.
6) Shidou - Throw Down (シドウ - スローダウン), Dec 11, 2020.
7) Mahiru - This Is How To Be In Love With You (マヒル - 愛なんですよ), Jan 15, 2021.
8) Kazui - half (カズイ - half), Mar 19, 2021.
9) Amane - Magic (アマネ - おまじない), Apr 16, 2021.
10) Mikoto - MeMe (ミコト - MeMe), Aug 13, 2021.
11) Kotoko - HARROW** (コトコ - HARROW), Nov 26, 2021.

In Goshogun the Time Etranger, forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between life and death. She sees visions of her life when she was young, and stranger still, experiences a hallucination of being with her friends, all of them young again, in a mysterious city filled with hostile fanatics.

Far from being the reunion Remy hoped for, a ghastly letter arrives for each member of the team that predicts their gruesome deaths. Slated to die in two days, both in reality and in her dream, Remy struggles to find a way out of the City of Fate, relying on the memories of her friends to see her through, even as they surround her death bed in the waking world.

(Source: RightStuff)

The story begins in the early Showa era of the 20th century. A mysterious old man on a train relates the disappearance of his older brother three decades ago, near the 12-story Ryounkaku tower that once stood in the seaside town of Uozu, Japan. The mystery revolves around telescopes, peep shows, and the blurred boundary between reality and dreams.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Music video for the song Hiten by Ayase & R-Shitei.

Music video animated by Hamono Eirina for the song Inside Joke by ZUTOMAYO.

The OVA is based on incidents in the novel Koshoku Ichidai Otoko (The Life of an Amorous Man) by Saikaku Ihara (1642-1693).

The libertine Yonosuke has spent his life in quest of sexual pleasure. Disowned by his father when he is 18, 16 years full of changes and errantry begin for him. At the age of 34 he inherits great wealth after his father dies and forgives his son.

When Yunosuke is 57, one of his tailors named Juzo comes to see him before setting out for Edo. Juzo has unwisely made a bet with a rich merchant that he will sleep with Komurasaki, the most renowned courtesan in Edo, at the first meeting. If he succeeds he will win a villa, but if he loses he will lose his manhood. Yunosuke is astounded as he knows how hard the high rank courtesans are to get. The best courtesans, tayu, as well as being beautiful, were highly cultured, being educated in poetry, calligraphy, painting, tea ceremony and other arts. They would sleep with a client only on the third night, the other two nights being taken up with greetings and other social niceties. Humble men, to whom they were 'untouchable' looked up to them with adoration and respect.

Indignant, Yunosuke takes Juzo to Edo and enables him to meet Komurasaki. Juzo is a laughing-stock at the tea-house because of his nervousness, and soon becomes drunk. He clumsily spills wine over the courtesan's kimono. Unperturbed, she goes out and returns wearing a fresh, identical garment.

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A man who appears every 700 years.
Streaching before the man's eyes the world rusted away to monochrome and gray.
Once before the town flourished that is now in ruins.
The man now, has a chance meeting with a person, a prositute.
A story of passion curling like smoke....Tairosu Tomah's story has begun.

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Who is good and who is evil? What is the boundary between them? An animated thriller about the tension between a good-hearted person speaking falsely and an evil-natured person speaking truthfully, and of those that surround them.

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Winner of the Platinum Grand Prize during the 2014 Future Film Festival, held in Italy.

Music video directed and animated by Marie Yasui for the song Ghost Avenue by Eve.

One stormy night, a young woman is shot to death on a cliff; her body is found floating in the waters below the next morning. She was last seen with a man who is now being sought not only for her death. Meanwhile, an estranged wife hires Goro, a private investigator, to find her husband. Alongside another member of law enforcement with his own motives for finding the man, Goro sets forth on a trail of tragedy and intrigue to find the reason and connection behind the murders and missing husband.

(Source: Anime-Planet.com; edited)