Slice of Life Anime
Zetsumetsu Kigu-shun. (2020)
The series follows the over 3,000 endangered species in the world.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Ore, Tsushima x Na Mo Naki Nezumi
Short collaboration anime between Ore, Tsushima and Na Mo Naki Nezumi, released on the Asmik Ace and Na mo Naki Nezumi YouTube channels.
Complex x Complex
The story follows the protagonist girl Yui Kotani, a second-year junior high school student who is obsessed with men's underarm hair, and the relationship with her male classmate Masato Takeo who has the thickest underarm hair in the class.
Muka Muka Paradise
Uiba Shikatani, the daughter of a pet shop owner is heartbroken after some reptile eggs fail to hatch. In his attempts to cheer her up, her father brings home a large, striped egg, which he hopes will successfully hatch (unexpectedly into a green dinosaur whom they call 'Muka-Muka', which are the only words which the baby reptile can speak).
Muka-Muka soon becomes the talk of the town and comes into the interest of the town's professor and his wacky inventions, including a time machine which successfully teleports the Shikatani's among other families and their homes to pre-historic times where they encounter several other dinosaurs and enchanted beings on their adventures.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Zdravstvuite!
On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of view. The man should be there at the beach tomorrow.
Graduate Work 2015 by Yoko Yuki, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
Prizes:
- ASK? FILM FESTIVAL 2015 11th ANNIVERSARY, ASK? award
- Image forum Festival 2015, audience award
- Inter Collage Animation Festival 2015, audience award
- MPTE AWARDS 2015, Aoi thubasa award
(Source: Geidai Animation)
365-nichi no Ashita
Original animated music video that serves as a promo for Hokkaido Electric Power Company (hepco).
A story about a girl who takes a step towards tomorrow.
Moshi Moshi, Terumi Desu
The "telephone romantic comedy" follows a girl named Terumi, who works for a telephone company that has an anti-internet policy, and a middle school boy named Rintarō who is in love with her.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Henteko na Volunteer
Henteko na Volunteer (Weird Volunteers) is a educational film produced and paid for by Kitakyushu City's Board of Education and Council for the Promotion of Outcast Issue Awareness. The story follows two second-year junior high girls who discover an old lady collapsed outside her home in rural Japan. After assisting her back inside, the two hear the old lady's harrowing life story and discover that she is illiterate. Shocked by this, the girls vow to volunteer their time to teach the old woman to read and write each day.
(Source: Kineko Video, edited)
Morimori Shima no Mogu to Perol
A story about two friends living on an island delicious food can be found everywhere. Mogu is a born chef and Perol loves to eat.
Hal & Bons
Hal and Bons are a pair of beer drinking slacker dogs. They are joined on their sofa by an anthropomorphic rice cake by the name of Mochi who first interviews them and then decides to give up being an interviewer and move in with them instead. Hal and Bons have mixed feelings about this turn of events - Mochi tastes great but he's rather lacking in social skills and he's starting to smell...
(Source: Anime News Network)
Yume Kakeru Kougen: Kiyosato no Chichi Paul Rusch
In 1925 Paul Rusch, an American missionary, arrived in Japan to help The Young Men's Christian Association with reconstruction efforts after the Great Kantou earthquake. Through his association with the Anglican Church he also became a professor at Rikkyo University in Tokyo and deepened his attachement to Japan as a result of conversations with his students. However, he had to leave the country when the Pacific War broke out.In 1945 Paul came to Japan again as an officer of General Headquarters and grieved over the deaths of many of his former students. He vowed to dedicate the rest of his life to helping the people living in Kiyosato - a highland area in Yamanashi Prefecture. He raised funds in the United States, helped build various facilities for the population and established the first highland dairy farm in Japan. However, not all Japanese were happy to deal with an American after the war ended, and so emerged one more important task for Paul: to help soothe post-WWII relationships between the people of two countries.
(Source: AniDB)
Sakuranbo Message
Music video directed by Riri Yamashita for the song Sakuranbo Message by Sakura Miko.
