Studio 4°C Anime

It's bedtime, and Nonoko is about to go to sleep. But the play of light and shadow on those objects on the wall look almost like... a person.

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A collaborative effort between the Japanese automaker and Japanese anime company Studio 4°C, PES: Peace Eco Smile is a new web promotional anime series that centers around PES, a traveller from space, and NaSuBi, a mysterious life-form who is enamored by the charm of Earth. The car of choice for these strangers in a new world? The Prius, particularly the Prius Liftback and Prius C hatchback. These two hybrids seem to be as much a part of this series as the two main characters are. A Lexus LFA (likely the ride of the antagonist) and the Toyota Camry hybrid also have a role to play.

Each anime short in the campaign will be three to four minutes long and will be posted on Toyota's specially-dedicated website.

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This is the masterpiece that introduced Kojo Morimoto to the rest of the world. EXTRA, the music clip from the pioneer of Japanese techno, Ken Ishii, was released in 1995. It skillfully represents the Koji Morimoto style of the Asian back alley world and received overwhelming praise both domestically and internationally.This triggered the beginning of a great boom for Japanimation. It received the award for “MTV Dance Video of the Year” in England.

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In a future not too far from now, humanity has advanced to a point where the line between Homo Sapiens and Androids have blurred completely. This has occurred so that the species could survive. Technology has allowed humans to travel into deep space to colonize other planets and galaxies deep in the universe because Earth has become uninhabitable. One of the many unfortunate results of this robotic Darwinism is that human behavior and consciousness has also changed over the years. Much of what makes one human—love, family, intimacy etc.—have all become things of the past. Almost legend...

This six-minute 3D animated short film was inspired by the female android "Gynoid" illustrations of Hajime Sorayama (The Humanoid). It is a collaboration between Studio 4°C, Shirogumi, and American filmmaker Rashad Haughton, with art direction by Tatsuyuki Tanaka. The CG animation was created "by eye," using filmed sequences with live actors as reference models.

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The "story" of an apparitious extraterrestrial and a vertically mobile prepubescent.

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Director Koji Morimoto, together with a 228-member staff, spent 1,080 hours completing the GLAY 2.7D animation version of “Survival”. Based on the theme of a young girl’s nihility, this story is about an ordinary high school girl who, amidst feelings of uncertainty, anguish, and chaos in modern-day society, gets in touch with her feelings and rediscovers herself.

This is a story with which many generations sympathize. Sold as a video single, Survival created quite a stir when it recorded unprecedented sales.

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Official animated video to the Asian Kung-Fu Generation song "Atarashii Sekai".

Anime shorts created by Studio 4℃ as a collaboration with the Japan Kanji Aptitude Test.

Interactive anti-smoking anime. Directed by Koji Morimoto (best known for Studio 4°C works), this ONA is available in Japanese, English and French.

A darkly cute tale of foiled romance and contract assassinations starring Tuzki (兔斯基).

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The "second" season of Dongitsune: a series of animated commercials for Nissin’s line of Donbei Kitsune Udon instant noodles.

Episodes:
#1: どんぎつねシーズン2 秋祭 篇 / Dongitsune Season 2: Akimatsuri-hen [September 28, 2022].
#2: どんぎつねシーズン2 耳そこなんですか？ 篇 / Dongitsune Season 2: Mimi Soko Nandesu ka?-hen [October 31, 2022].
#3: 最強のどんぎつね現るッッ / Saikyou no Dongitsune Arawaru [November 21, 2022].
#4: 最強年越し 篇 / Saikyou Toshikoshi-hen [December 1, 2022].
#5: 正直すぎる尻尾 篇 / Shoujiki Sugiru Shippo-hen [February 15, 2023].
#6: カップよりうまい 篇 / Cup Yori Umai-hen [March 30, 2023].
#7: どん兵衛プロ出た 篇 / Donbei PRO Deta-hen [September 7, 2023].
#8: 耳は正直 2023 篇 / Mimi wa Shoujiki 2023-hen [November 15, 2023].
#9: 年越しアイドル 篇 / Toshikoshi Idol-hen [December 9, 2023].
#10: 片翼のどんぎつね 篇 / Henyoku no Dongitsune-hen [February 28, 2024].

A short anime about a guy living in his own world.

Piroppo is a short series commisioned by Sony for the promotion of their robot dog Aibo. Apparently 54 slots of about 20 seconds each were made, but the dvd release totals 23 named episodes.

Created by ISHII Katsuhito, director of Trava Fist Planet and several of the Grasshoppa live action projects, this is a highly original project despite the limited budget.

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The film premiered at the AnimeparTy festival, which was held on May 18 and 19 in Shanghai. Hidekazu Ohara directed the video, and idol group Sweety (Sengoku Collection theme song performance) performed the voices of the NaSuBi and performed the music.

Inside a majestic museum, a young warrior gets attacked by shadow beasts born from people's fear and uncertainty over what they don't know. The warrior fights against them using the energy charger on his waist, but soon the energy runs out. In this desperate situation, he finds a new, unexpected source of power.

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A five-minute promotional anime for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable game Toukiden Kiwami.

Two siblings are running away from demons which attacked their village. Just when they are cornered, a mysterious female fighter appears and slays the demons. This female fighter turns out to be a Slayer, a demon that fights other demons and is part of a village of Slayers.

Uraroji Diamond is a very interactive DVD which takes you inside a Studio-4C-style town with all the weirdness inside, while you scour for episodes (very short, black and white, weird episodes).

(Source: AnimeDB)