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Utawarerumono: Tusukuru-koujo no Karei Naru Hibi
Included with the premium collection release of the PS4 remake of Utawarerumono: Chiriyukumono e no Komoriuta. The anime will tell the story of Kuon's childhood days.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Utopa
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.
Dededen
The studio TMS Entertainment collaborated with Seibu Railways on the new original anime Dededen. The anime celebrates both the 50th anniversary of TMS Entertainment and the 100th anniversary of Seibu Railways. TMS Entertainment happens to be located near the Araiyakushimae Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.
The anime followed the daily life of the main lead Amoru Tokorozawa and the railway. TMS plans to make five episodes, each 75 seconds long. It is running on the train's onboard SmileVision screens, as well as on the Smile StationVision screens around major stations from February 23 to December 31.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Utsunomiko
In the chaos of the Jinshin-no-Ran civil war of 762, a child with a small horn in his forehead was born. The child's mother condemned him as an oni and cast him away. An elderly shūgenja woman claimed the child and named him Utsunomiko, or 'Divine Child of the Heavens', telling Miko that his horn smybolizes the union of heaven and earth. Miko matured in the wilderness learning the ways of Shugendō, and soon started venturing into villages out of curiosity. He found that the common people of the villages live in poverty and suffering, and began using his spiritual powers to help them. But his anger at the self-serving rulers and their petty power-struggles grew until he came into open conflict with the Imperial Court, setting Miko down a long path as a champion of the oppressed.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Utsunomiko: Heaven Chapter
Delving into the humans' spiritual journey to the Celestial Realm of Buddha, UTSU NO MIKO follows five friends on their quest to bring peace to a corrupt and chaotic Earth.
Born with a horn, Utsu no Miko found refuge on Mt. Kongo where he studies to become a God. But when the ruling imperial government seems to bring only devastation to the people, Miko and his friends venture on a 33-year quest to reach the Celestial Realm and meet the almighty Father of the North Star. Yet, the way is filled with danger, for the five humans intrude upon the world of immortals where the gods reign supreme. And, in order to reach their goal, Miko must first challenge them to battle.
However, they soon realize that the gods too are not without flaws and earthly desires. And for Miko, the hope of rescuing his love (Kagami) leads to the realization that the world cannot exist without the balance of gods' tumultuous soul, and the humans' will to survive and to love. For, as one life ceases, another takes its place. And only when there is true peace can people finally see the face of God.
(Source: AniDB)
Utsurun Desu.
An anime adaptation of Sensha Yoshida's Utsurun Desu. four-panel "nonsensical" gag comedy manga. The manga used a stable of off-the-wall characters to tell jokes that defied logic or reasoning. The original manga ran in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine from 1989 to 1994.
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Uwa no Sora kara Kaetekuru
The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. So their conversation doesn’t go along very well. In several trips to his own imagination he gradually feels it void and became interested in chain of conversation and the development of the relationship with other people. Then he decided to com back to the conversation.
1st Year Work 2010 by Naoaki Shibuta, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Ahiru no Otegara
A duckling tries to save the animals when a storm hits their farm. Short film from the 1930s.
Uzattaina
Animated music video by Jun Aoki and Yasuhiro Arafune for the song Uzattaina, which is a collaboration between vocalists Soraru and Rib and the Vocaloid producer, Neru.
DEDARI
An animation work based on rituals filmed during fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia. Among the hundreds of ceremonies known as 'Sangyan' in Bali, the motif is 'Sangyan Dudari', which is said to be the most effective for exorcism. Sangyan Dudari is a ritual in which two premenstrual girls are possessed by Dudari (celestial maiden spirit) and danced continuously.
(Source: Official Website)
