The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Music video directed and animated by Masanobu Hiraoka for the song Darkroom by Dios.
People become ‘ghouls’ upon dying, and will enter the physical world through a door to cause chaos. Zhang Zha, a mere delivery boy, accidentally entered a haunted house, and resulted in a crisis— a ‘ghoul’ breakout. As such, people from all factions began to make an appearance in the story, while Zhang Zha continues to grow upon experiencing a series of adventures and fights with a mysterious scroll about modern Jianghu slowly unfolding alongside.
(Source: MangaUp!)
Music video for the song Wake Up! Papa! by HARCO and Tokunosuke Satou that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.
In 2050, the world climate has changed awfully. One rainy day,TAMALA saved a honeybee from drowning in the street gutter. His name was Kuronosuke, the last bee of the cat world and he invited TAMALA to the magical journey retrograding time and toward the near future. It's the huge panorama of biodiversity of the animals and plants in the earth history. However; the modern era coming, the civilization has been wasting and destroying the nature. Finally they were roving around the wild land where all the animals had become extinct. When TAMALA had little time to live without any foods finally, Kuronosuke made an offer to eat him for her to survive.
(Source: Youtube)
Classic children's literary works told in a chibi art style.
A world of the future, madly over populated, searches for a new home on Mars to help support humanity. After terraforming Mars into a habitable landscape a Japanese ship returning from the planet crash-lands on a Tokyo street, unleashing a terrible monster. The only man who can stop Negadon is Dr. Narasaki, and his robot Miroku...
(Source: Anime News Network)
In order to explore the newly discovered planet, Promethe, there are many projects are running all over the world.
Here in Japan, under the direction of Dr. Oedo, "Space Carrier Jasdum" and "Planet Robot Dangard A" are being built. Ichimonji Takuma is a candidate for the pilot of Dangard A. His father, Ichimonji Dantetsu, was a famous space pilot.
However, Dantetsu went missing after a mysterious accident, and the people blamed him for the accident. In order to clear his name, Takuma is trying to become a space pilot and succeed in the project. Will Takuma become the pilot?
(Source: AniList.co)
Chronicles the everyday, yet silly events at a fictional South Korean convenience store.
Humanity has grown a taste for zombies. Stewed, sautéed, or squeezed.
In an alternate world, the Japanese corporation Flesh Inc. has managed to create zombies on domestic soil during the roaring Sixties (the years of the economic boom) using voodoo techniques imported from Africa, and it has built a fortune thereafter by selling zombie products of all kind: instant noodles, soft drinks, hamburgers, pet food, and cosmetics.
But when a trio of self-centered millennials on their first workday get trapped inside a fully automated zombie farm with their old-school technotard supervisor and a horde of undead running amok, overcoming generation gaps becomes a matter of survival.
(Source: Production I.G)
A short film only screened at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. This story is based on a Japanese folk tale "The Mice's Sumo Tournament".
Once upon a time, deep in the mountains, there lived an old couple who worked day after day in exhaustion, toiling up and down the mountain field. One night, the old man stepped outside and noticed a group of mice headed somewhere. He quietly follows them to find mice gathered for a sumo tournament. When the old man and his wife learn that their home mice are always losing, they start preparing a special feast of saury fish dumplings and grilled tofu with miso sauce. They even make new red sumo uniforms for their mice team. What will happen in the next sumo games?
(Source: Ghibli Museum)
The further developed and completed version of a 15-second advertisement for an interior design firm on which I had worked. It repeats over and over again the violent back-and-forth, half-revolving motions of a giant brick storehouse inside the frame of a hand-held photograph. I wanted to emphasis the flat nature of the photograph while creating a dynamic feeling of depth inside the photograph’s frame.
(Source: Takashi Ito)