Original Anime

Mirai Mizue continues his experimentation with music and movement in his latest "cell animation," Tatamp. Not to be confused with the animation technique of "cel animation," Mizue’s unique style of "cell animation" is hand-drawn and colored on paper then scanned onto the computer for editing. The name refers to the fact that the creatures that he draws resemble amoeba and other minute organic creatures one might find under the lens of a microscope.

(Source: Nishikataeiga Reviews)

Japan's first puppet animation directed by Mochinaga Tadahito and Tanaka Yoshitsugu.

Four young animals, rabbit Seitaro Usagi, squirrel Risu, bear Kuma, and penguin Penguin (U-Ri-Ku-Pen), are part of a team of brave young animals that rescues others in peril. Other team members included a dog, a boar, a deer, a koala, a mouse, a seagull, and a lion. The animals would win a prize for completing a mission, as would the viewers, who were encouraged to write in and guess which of the creatures would save the world by each Friday (a single mission stretched over a week of TV). Created by Mitsuru Kaneko, this show was given a limited broadcast on some American local TV stations for the Japanese community.

(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)

Higashi Asia Buka Toshi is a yearly event in agreement with Japan, China, and Korea's cultural ministries. A city or ward from each country is chosen to bring awareness to that city through its arts and culture. For 2019, Japan selected its Toshima ward of Tokyo city. This means that Toshima is now accepting any projects, logos, public relations, school projects, etc. among the Toshima citizens and businesses to create a Toshima-portfolio and tourism for the ward.

To mark the debut of Toshima's selection, a rotocoped short was released following a little girl's view of Toshima's attractions.

(Source: MAL)

Set during 3000 BCE in the Nile region of Egypt, Kamigami no Ki ("Chronicles of the Gods") will depict the comical misadventures of Bastet, Anubis, Ra, and the mysterious ghost Medjedo as well as their caretakers, Iabi and Ahkeu.

(Source: Crunchyroll)

Kurayukaba is set in an alternative world, in a town where people have begun to fear falling shadows and the coming of the evening as a result of strange, mass disappearances that occur at night. After a chance encounter with a young woman named Tanne and her armored train, Shoutarou, a good-for-nothing detective, attempts to solve the case once and for all.

(Source: Crunchyroll)

The anime series follows the comic interactions between dogs representing 47 todoufuken (prefectures) of Japan. Each dog is voiced by a voice actor hailing from the respective prefecture; also, each dog's design has a motif of the region's specialty.

(Source: Anime News Network)

"47 Prefecture Dogs" is a short flash animation from a voice over variety TV program in Japan called "SAY! YOU! SAY! ME!" The animation takes Japan's 47 prefectures—or more specifically, the local delicacies or famous landmarks from each of the regions—and gives them a canine makeover. For example, the "Fukuoka-ken" (Fukuoka dog),—Fukuoka of course being home to asianbeat HQ—uses the delicacy "mentaiko" (spicy pollack roe) as the motif for its canine characterization.

Each of the characters are played by voice actors that hail from each of the individual prefectures, "Fukuoka-ken" being voiced by Fukuoka's Kana Asumi.Another feature of this anime is the use of regional dialect. All the dogs speak in the dialect of their individual prefectures. So for the Fukuoka dog you hear a lot of "~to" and "~to yo" at the end of sentences; for the Aichi dog it's "~dagane," and for Ehime, "~zonamoshi," etc.

(Source: AsianBeat.com, edited)

Junko Yagami's performance of Choco to Watashi for NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A collaboration between FIREBUG, Fuji TV, and Bandai: Hyper Positive Yogoremon centers on Otarou, a creature themed around dirt known as a yogoremon. It and other yogoremon will ask the meaning of words and explain negative terms in positive ways. The shorts are also posted on the official CreepHyp YouTube channel.

(Source: Anime News Network, edited)

A music video for the song "Happy Hour", performed by Shiho Fujisawa featuring HIRO:N.

One of the famous Asian animated films from the late 1950s.

An official music video for the musician Hiwa. It was also shown later at the 2015 Kyoto International Art and Film Festival.

On planet Kirakira live two tribes: Senobi and Robot. Senobi, quiet and peacefully set, settle down in the forest. Robot comes from the desert and starts war to take control of afforested grounds. A young hero coming from Senobi tries to appease the whole situation.

(Source: AniList.co)

Flash anime shorts that center around a school for mischievous demon toddlers.

(Source: AniDB)

An animated music video for Fullkawa Honpo's "Gregorio" song, featuring Chibita.

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Trilogy about clouds, that is, an omnibus movie consisting of three different stories of clouds. It is based on a charcoal drawing. The clouds without the fixed form are the worlds which surround us.

#1: "Breathing Cloud" 3min 10sec
People’s body and soul transform into big a cloud, and are mixed with erotic shapes.

#2: "Looking At A Cloud." 5min 45sec
Something happens at the junior high school. When a boy starts to draw a cloud, that drawing begin to move and eat the students...

#3: "From The Cloud" 3min 50sec
A funny little story about people living on the soft cloud. A look at their daily life, in the morning, they listen to the bell and begin to go down the sky.