Once upon a time, the birds and the beasts fought each other in a war. It was a terrible conflict, and the clever bats would side with the birds when the birds were looking victorious, and then they would become allies of the beasts when that side was winning battles. At last the war came to an end, the two parties reached an amicable settlement, and a great party of friendship was held. But when it came to the turn of the bats to perform in the program, their fence-straddling tactics were exposed, and everyone refused to associate with them. Since that time, the bats have been too ashamed to show their faces during the day, coming out only at night to flit silently around.
(Source: MAL)
Production I.G has created the animation for Kao Corporation's Asience shampoo creative challenge, entitled Asience: Hairy Tale. The 60-second animated film is directed by Kazuto Nakazawa, who gained international fame by directing the animation part in Quentin Tarantino's world hit Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Nakazawa also designed the characters and directed the animation. Art direction has been entrusted to Shuichi Hirata, the texture wizard behind the stunning artwork of Cannes-nominated Innocence and Annecy-selected xxxHOLiC - A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The graphic style in Asience: Hairy Tale is visually inspired by XVIII century Japanese paintings, and personalized by Nakazawa's nervous and expressive brush touch used for the characters outlines. Without any support from 3D animation, the brush lines were painstakingly traced with pencil on paper by the in-between staff. The story concept, focusing on woman's hair as metaphor of feminine life, is portrayed as a tragic love story in a samurai drama fashion.
(Source: AniDB)
Synchronized the irritation of the baby’s cries and the frustration I have ever experienced. Everyone was born while crying and grew crying. I grew up to be an adult, but I strongly want to be a baby again.
Short film by Sawako Kabuki.
Mary Bell is a fairy of flowers and will only appear when someone is in need of her help. When a couple has a hard time running a flower shop, she appears in front of their two children. With that, she starts her important task of helping the couple make their flower shop a complete success.
(Source: Anime News Network)
The Daichis are a family in danger of tearing itself apart. Dissatisfied and money obsessed mom Seiko has served wimpy and otaku dad Mamoru with divorce papers. Daughter Nozomi who has always been saddled with all the housework, feels pained that everyone is using her. The youngest albeit most foul mouthed, Dai is forced to watch all this as everything is going to pieces. However when the Galaxy Federation recruits the Daichis to combat alien threats to the wellbeing of the Earth, it will be a chance for the family to save the world and maybe themselves.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Music video animated by Riri Yamashita for the song Ashita wa Nichiyoubi by the VTuber unit, Rain Drops.
Music video for the track EDEN by ATOLS from the album MUSIC OF SCIENCE.
There are two official videos for this song, one is made by ATOLS and can be found on his official youtube channel, the other one is made by MASATAKA and this is the one that was featured on the MUSIC OF SCIENCE DVD.
(Source: AniList.co)
“Ghost” is an online mobile game that Ye Yinyi always dreamed of completing, and to that end, has poured his blood and tears into it, even missing a date with his girlfriend. However, he learns about an alarming monster attack on a young woman near his house, a photograph of which shows the monster to bear a resemblance to the monster he designed. Why is the world of his mobile game appearing in real life?
Iczelion, the final entry in the "Icz" series, is a departure from the previous storyline in most resepcts.
Throughout the galaxy, two villians destory and pillage anything in their path. Their names are Cross and Chaos, and they are ready to invade their next target: Earth. The only defense against these warriors are the Iczelions, a fusion of young girls, and Iczels, sentient body armor. Nagisa is a typical high school girl who is about to become the next Iczelion against her will, to defend the planet and save the human race! But not if she has anything to say about it...
(Source: AniDB)
The second season of Nanashi Kaidan.
A mysterious man named Mukuroji tells a ghost story that no one knows and should not be known, that is Nanashi Kaidan. A girl named Bon and a boy named Koko join forces to seal away the supernatural.
Hundreds of years after the 20th century, nature and the ecosystem have been devastated due to use of nuclear and biological weaponry. Most of Earth has been contaminated and is collapsing into ruin, and a great majority of plants and animals are now extinct. The world heads to the “Big Six,” the sixth mass extinction event. Humanity built cities in the sky, migrating the endangered species of animals and plants there. Over many years, the animals evolved in these isolated cities. With artificial genetic crossbreeding, they acquire language, bipedality, and build a life and civilization for themselves free from want. No one thinks of the world below any longer. One day, a single plant seed wanders into one of the sky cities and some children discover it. Unable to resist the temptation to look into the world outside, they decide to undertake an adventure to the outside world, unknowing that once they set foot on the ground, they will never be able to return.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Utopa is one of four Anime Tamago 2016 young animator training projects.
In the pursuit of her dream, protagonist Lin works alone at an animation company in a big city, finding herself too busy to answer her father's messages.
She was given an important role in a new project. However, under the pressure of the schedule her inspiration dries up and she falls into a low point where she can't bring herself to draw anymore. Losing confidence in herself, Lin decides to go back to her hometown.
(Source: Youtube Description, edited)
Mohawk? Check. Pompadour? Check. Unbridled ambition to be the most crudely cool hamsters around? DOUBLE CHECK. Regent and Mohawk might be small and fluffy, but that won’t hold them back as they try to become the most delinquent hamsters around!
(Source: HIDIVE)