Liberty Animation Studio Anime

Short stories capturing the bittersweet and tender moments of everyday family life, made for Marukome Co., Ltd. a miso soup paste manufacturer.

List of commercials:
#1: Mother and Son (たっぷりお徳 母と息子篇)
#2: Working away from Home (即席生みそ汁 単身赴任篇)
#3: A Midnight Snack (カップみそ汁 夜食篇)
#4: Coming to Tokyo (液みそ 上京篇)
#5: Being a mother (無添加 母になれば篇)
#6: Miso Soup (お徳用あおさ ミソスープ篇)
#7: Home Sick Together (米麦合わせ ふたりでおやすみ篇)
#8: Together Forever (液みそ いつまでも一緒に篇)
#9: Look After Yourself (フリーズドライ 顆粒みそ 気をつけてね篇)
#10: Memories of Summer Vacation (夏休みの思い出篇)
#11: My Whimsical Little Boy (息⼦にはかなわない篇)
#12: Home for the Holidays (帰省篇)
#13: Cooking Is Super Cool (料理ってすごいね篇)

(Source: AniList.co)

Animated Pokémon Masters EX 4.5th Anniversary commercial directed by Toshitaka Shinoda.

Music video directed by Toshitaka Shinoda for the song Mr. by YOASOBI.

Music video directed by Toshitaka Shinoda for the song Ai Ai Ai Ai♡Ai Love You by Hololive Fantasy (Usada Pekora, Shiranui Flare, Shirogane Noel, Houshou Marine).

Based on a seinen manga by Kikuchi Naoe and Yokomi Hirohiko, serialised in IKKI.

The "story" is that a manga artist is asked by her boss to accompany him and a travel-writer on various train trips around Japan and draw a manga about it.

The kicker though, is that it's completely non-fiction —the creator really did go on all these trips, and the manga simply records what happened, with no embellishment. There's a little disclaimer at the front that says "This is non-fiction, so I apologize for the lack of drama," and indeed, it mostly is just about them riding trains from place to place, waiting on platforms, etc.

The "travel writer" turns out to be a super train-otaku who has vast knowledge of the train network, but also micro-manages all their trips, planning every detail down to the second. He cares mostly about following the schedule and successfully achieving his planned goals (e.g. visiting all stations on a line in a completely bizarre order to accomodate infrequent trains). The mangaka doesn't really care about trains; she's cynical, sarcastic, and rather lazy (she mainly just looks forward to the next eki-ben); he's completely gung-ho as long as he's following the schedule, and the inevitable conflicts are pretty entertaining.

Throughout, though, it feels real —if you've travelled by train in Japan it will all seem very familiar, not just the scenery, but also the atmosphere and feel— and the artist does a great job of pacing and applying little tweaks to keep it consistently entertaining. In an additional bit of recursiveness, some of the characters who show up in the manga (who of course are real people, who really did show up) do so because they (really) read previous episodes of the manga!

In addition of course, you can learn about various out of the way and interesting Japanese train lines and stations; some of them really do look cool. There's always this vague sense of surreality about it however, the trips are all planned by the train-guy (goal: visit all 9,843 stations in Japan) who seems to consider everything as part of a checklist rather than an experience to be enjoyed. You learn a bit about train-otaku culture too; there's really only the one guy in the story, but train-otaku culture is a sort of constant peripheral presence.

(Source: AniDB)

A pair of commercials directed by Toshitaka Shinoda made for danime store. The tie-in track for both commercials is “Matasaburo” by Yorushika.

Episodes:
#1: キミの好きに出会おう （告白）/ Kimi no Suki ni Deaou (Kokuhaku), released May 9, 2021.
#2: キミの好きに出会おう （奪還）/ Kimi no Suki ni Deaou (Dakkan), released September 30, 2021.

(Source: AniList.co)

A four minute educational commercial by TOTO about water and how the TOTO ecotechnology works.

A young boy lives with his grandfather who survived WW2. When a letter comes in the mail, the grandfather begins to weep. He then tells his grandson the story behind this letter his friend wrote.