Slice of Life Anime
Magical Taruruuto-kun: Sukisuki Takoyaki!
Fifth grader Edojou Honmaru is one of the most trodden upon losers in his class, untuil he meets Magical Taruruuto-kun. Taruruuto's powers help him deal with all his hardships, such as girls, bullies, and numerous other challenges.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Magical Taruruuto-kun: Moero! Yuujou no Mahou Taisen
Fifth grader Edojou Honmaru is one of the most trodden upon losers in his class, untuil he meets Magical Taruruuto-kun. Taruruuto's powers help him deal with all his hardships, such as girls, bullies, and numerous other challenges.
(Source: Anime News Network)
World Fool News Part II
The second season of World Fool News.
Takahashi is transferred to a main anchor of a news program, which is known for being a little...weird. This is a comedy about somewhat ridiculous happenings occurring at a broadcasting station.
(Source: AniList)
Maeumuisori
While it may seem like a mere depiction of everyday life, The Sound of Your Heart is a comedy filled to the brim with wit, sarcasm, and parody. It gives no regard for the probable or realistic- it is a series of absurd situations that is sure to get a laugh out of every reader willing to suspend their sense of reality.
(Source: LINE Webtoon)
Maemilggot, Unsu Joeun Nal, Geurigo Bombom
Episode 1: "When the Buckwheat Flowers Bloom"
Heo Saeng-won is an ageing market vendor. He has been a peddler all his life. After a long day at the marketplace in Bongpyeong village, he follows his fellow peddler Jo Seon-dal into an inn where he meets a young itinerant vendor, Dong-i. As the three accompany each other under the moonlight along the buckwheat flowers, Heo Saeng-won realizes he has a special bond with Dong-i.
Episode 2: "Spring Spring"
I toil on the field day and night as a servant for a man who has promised to give his daughter's hand to me in return for my labor. The man, however, keeps putting off the wedding, saying that his daughter is not growing fast enough. One day, out of fury, I call the man to the ultimate match.
Episode 3 "A Lucky Day"
Kim, who earns his living by driving a rickshaw, gets out on the street again, even after hearing from his wife that she is seriously ill. Kim then gets to drive an unusually large number of customers that day, and begins to suspect something hideous may lie ahead of his sudden good fortune. At the end of the long and hard day, Kim returns home, with an inexplicable sense of fear weighing down on his heart.
(Source: IndieStory)
Amane Nikki
This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom from my preconceptions about animation and myself.
1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Love & Gift
A and B have never met each other, but there is a thread that ties them together.
(Source: Official website)
Life: Jinsei no Taisetsu na Toki ni...
A paper stop-motion commercial for D-Mail, a live-event gift company with roses for anniversaries, cards, picture frames, incense for condolences, etc. With products available to celebrate weddings, births, first day of school ceremonies and graduation.
Xiangzhe Mingliang Na Fang
Hop on this delightful omnibus of a film, composed of seven stunningly animated short films, and you’ll travel to China past and present, urban and rural, in realistic contemporary settings or fantastic mythical realms. Though the protagonists range from a family of rabbits, a boy doing his homework at his parents’ restaurant, or a child and his grandmother in the countryside, all tell a unique stories of love, challenges, and maturing to the beat of your own drum. The distinctive styles of each short equally captivate, beautifully hand illustrated through rich colors, ink painting, paper-cutting, watercolor, collages, and more to create affectionate interpretations of life, love and growth as seen through these gifted Chinese filmmakers’ viewpoints.
(Source: New York Int'l Children's Film Festival)
Go! Go! Vehicle Zoo (ONA)
Follow-up to the original Go! Go! Vehicle Zoo. This series introduces a couple new characters, including a dog named Moko who specializes in tracking, her partner, a fire truck named Fine, and an antagonist named Guutan.
Goannai Shimasu Another World e
Part of the series of educational videos that teaches kids and young adults several basic tax lessons.
Kuroi Ame ni Utarete
Black rain, which contained plenty of radioactivity, poured into Hiroshima just after the bombing. The effects of the death ash extend to the second and third generations and still cast the shadow of death behind the living witnesses.
(Source: Official Site)
KURO
An original short film by Inaba Takuya depicting a strange world in black & white. Premiered at Tokyo Anima! in 2013.
Kura Sushi
A recruitment video/commercial commissioned by Kura Corporation, a Japanese sushi restaurant chain that specializes in conveyor belt sushi. The first episode is a young man trying his best to work hard at his new full time job. The second episode focuses on teenagers working there part time (and the young man from the previous episode has now become the manager of the restaurant).
Kuni-chan no Ikka Ranran
A short animation based on Kuniko Yamada's semi-autobiographical essay Ikka Ranran (一家ランラン), published in 1993. It released in theaters as part of Kin-chan no Cinema Jack (欽ちゃんのシネマジャック). Yamada narrated the film herself.