In the year 2403 AD a young student named Satoru is visited by a time traveler from the future, a cute girl named Alisa. The two go back in time together to explore the 21st century when a malfunction sends them hurdling through seemingly random episodes of religious and perhaps historic importance.
Japan's answer to Scientology, Kyoufuku no Kagaku (幸福の科学, also known as The Institute for Research in Human Happiness), returns with their third animated feature.
(Source: AniList.co)
An Escher-like metaphor for introspection: a woman and her reflection in a forest pool, plus moths.
(Source: douban)
Music video directed and animated by Hamono Eirina for the song P.E.T. by Sakamata Chloe.
People can show some other personality when eating. Some become like herbivores, chewing so many times. Some become like carps, crowding around bates. Some become like hamsters, with their mouths full, etc.. Everyone is unique and worth observation.
1st year Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: Geidai Animation)
The first title in the series of anime films by the Happy Science cult.
The "story" of an apparitious extraterrestrial and a vertically mobile prepubescent.
(Source: Anime News Network)
MONOLITH (a.k.a. Kaoru/Brilliance) provides a poetry reading for Miyako, taken from the perspective of a mentally ill woman stalking another woman.
Music video directed and animated by sakiyama for the song Kan Saete Kuyashii wa by ZUTOMAYO.
This is the true story of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during WW2. Anne's father realizes on time the danger the Jews face and hides his family (his wife Edith and his two daughters Margo (16) and Anne (13), along with four more people, in "the house behind". For two years the 8 people live in darkness and whispers, in fear to be discovered and sent to the German crematories. During that time young Anne writes a diary, describing day by day life in the cellar, her complicated realtionship with her mother and the story of her first love - Peter, the young boy in the hiding place. Anne writes down her wishes to run out free and breath the air and flowers, her dreams to be free at last. Then they are discovered and are all sent to death.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Having forgotten exciting feelings of the early days of the relationship, the man drifts along petting his guinea pig. One day he meets a beauty of flower who appreciates the pet.
Tomoki Misato's 2016 Graduation Work at Musashino Art University.
A dark surreal film of several creatures metamorphorphing inside a room. A stop motion animation film from the minds of Kobayashi Masahide and Keita Funamoto of The Village of Marchen
The bizarre laws of Heaven, the extraordinary immortals and Buddhas—are they real? Or are they fake? Lost in confusion, Li Huowang couldn't tell.
(Source: Tencent, translated)