TVMIX takes place 26 years from the story Touch . From the legend left by the hero of Touch , Tatsuya Uesugi, Meisei Academy High School was well known for their strong baseball team. 26 years from their glory, the team has not been able to keep their record and lost their fame. MIX is about two stepbrothers, Soichirou and Toma Tachibana. The two aim to revive of the once strong Meisei Academy’s baseball team and enter the National High School Baseball Championship. Soichirou and Toma were second years in Meisei Academy Middle School. Both boys are talented baseball players. Soichirou has shown excellent skill as a catcher and batter. Though having an extraordinary skill as a pitcher, Toma no longer pitches due to a “certain reason.” Once the two enter High School, they pair as a battery and aim to enter the National High School Baseball Championship! The passion and devoted emotions will touch your heart! MIX is a high school baseball drama that all ages and genders can enjoy! (Source: YTV, edited)
TVUesugi Fuutarou, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor... but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What's more, they're quintuplets... and all five are beautiful, but happen to be problem students who have borderline grades and hate studying! Looks like his first assignment will be to win all the sisters' trust?! Every day is a wild party in this rom-com centering around the quintuplet sisters of the Nakano household! (Source: Crunchyroll)
OVAEpisode 0 of Free!: Dive to the Future was shown at a special Free! event. Episode 1 also pre-aired during this same event. Episode 0 will eventually be included in the BD/DVD release of Free!: Dive to the Future .
MOVIEArata, Lilith and the rest of the Trinity Seven ace off against their greatest enemy; Lilith's own father, who is revealed to be the strongest Demon Lord. He challenges Arata who is now a Demon Lord candidate. (Source: Anime News Network)
TVI, the protagonist, was just an ordinary high school girl, but suddenly I was reincarnated as a spider monster in a fantasy world. Not only that, but I awakened in a dungeon filled with vicious monsters. Armed with only my human knowledge and my overwhelming positivity, I'm forced to use spiderwebs and traps to defeat far stronger monsters just to stay alive... So begins the labyrinth survival story of a girl with incredible mental strength living as one of the lowest-ranked beasts! (Source: Crunchyroll)
TVThe East Side of Shinjuku Ward … In the center of this chaotic neighborhood, the neon-lit Kabukicho district is expanding. Where light shines, there are also deep shadows. The curtain rises on this night stage where bizarre murders occurred! Is this suspense? No, comedy? An indistinguishable drama is about to begin…. (Source: Anime News Network)
ONA"A festival of miracle, where you can meet whoever you want to meet." Mihara Shoma, a first-year in high school, receives a message from his best friend Atsushi, who he hadn't heard from in ages. "Wanna come to this cool little festival I found? It's been a while, so I'd like to catch up." Unable to sit around after that, Shoma heads to a ghost village in the mountains for the Tanabata Nanayamatsuri. But he doesn't find Atsushi there. Instead, he meets a girl named Shiori, who has someone she wants to meet as well. Will Shoma be able to meet Atsushi once again? (Source: Crunchyroll)
MOVIEShin-chan is all set to challenge Kung Fu in the Chinatown of Kasukabe city, known as "Aiya Town". Shinnosuke and the Kasukabe Defence Force are going to put up a totally no-stunt Kung Fu challenge on the stage. (Source: Wiki)
SPECIALThe original six-minute "pilot" featured a slightly different version of Might Orbots called Broots (pronounced "Brutes"). Rob and Ono looked similar to their 'finished' selves, though definitively more late 70s-like. The Orbots, while having the same names as in the finished product, are subtly different, and obviously unfinished. Even their combined form aka "Super-Broots" would go through some more developmental evolution before becoming Mighty Orbots. (Source: Wikipedia)
MOVIEOur lives in the real world stand at the crossroads of countless decisions. The characters of this film—Maro and Crow, the department chief Ms. Kim, Sweet Potato and Titi, Ye-mi and Gang-bo—live in an imaginary animated world, but they face the real life concerns that confront all of us. This story takes a funny yet bittersweet look at the vast gulf between the reality and ideals of our lives at different moments—before we make a choice, during the process of choosing, and after a choice has been made. (Source: Korean Film Biz Zone)
TVThis Korean and Chinese co-production series focuses on Tao, a young boy with magical powers, as he attends school to become a wizard. Each episode was composed of two stories. (Source: Wiki)
TVChildren harness the power of Dragon Eggs: Mechanical monsters who are sealed within an egg capsule. They use their transforming friends to save the human world against an opposing evil company.
ONAIn the corner of the universe, there was a small planet where creatures called men flourished. Doomsday finally looms near to this planet where destruction and creation have occurred repeatedly. The great king of terror appears from the sky and the mankind faces the end. "Encounters with that kind" is Director Yutaro Sawada's original stop motion animation. (Source: Anime Bancho)
SPECIALThis visual production is a project of Hachinohe Portal Museum “hacchi”, a cultural facility located in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture. The animation, set in the coastal area of Hachinohe depicting the landscape and life in Hachinohe, from the eyes of a girl called Hamaneko who came from the planet Nekoryoshka, and Kabu a black tail gull; employing animations created from textiles. Food menu that appears in the story are original productions of [Bistrot Pot d’Etain] chef, Yuuki Miura, of Hachinohe. (Source: Official YouTube Channel)
ONAA short film for Mentholatum, a mentholated balm company founded in 1894 now owned by the Japanese Rohto Pharmaceutical company. The film focuses on spreading warmth and kindness from hand to hand and was specifically released for Labor Thanksgiving Day, a Japanese national holiday that commemorates labor and production and giving one another thanks.
MOVIEThe first film in a duology adapting the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon "Dream" arc. The Dead Moon Circus has arrived in Juban with the hopes of liberating their queen, Nehellenia, by stealing the Legendary Silver Crystal for themselves. Using "Lemures," the Circus begins to convert people's dreams into nightmares in order to collect enough energy to plunge the Earth into darkness and turn it into a planet of death. In order to stop the Circus in their tracks, Usagi Tsukino and her friends must reprise their roles as the Inner Sailor Guardians. When Mamoru Chiba suddenly falls ill after the appearance of a total solar eclipse, Usagi and Chibiusa encounter a pegasus by the name of Helios who is desperate to unseal the Golden Crystal, which Helios claims is the only way to save their world from the impending threat. Meanwhile, the Sailor Guardians discover that they can no longer transform following the eclipse and begin to fall victim to the Circus' Lemures. Will they be able to recover their powers in time to stop the darkness from taking over? (Source: MAL Rewrite)
ONAThe shorts tell the story of two twin princesses, Berry and Flora, whose mother died giving birth to them. The two grow up until their father chooses Berry to don the title of "Onaka Hime," or Stomach Princess, who is endowed with the power to heal the kingdom's citizens of illness and make its women beautiful through using BifiX 1000. Flora is disheartened at not being chosen, yet continues her studies. When it seems Berry is yet unable to use the powers of BifiX 1000 to heal a woman who is ill, Flora steals the product to try to do it herself. When Berry finds out what Flora is up to, she takes the product back before Flora has a chance to try to use it. (Source: Anime News Network)
MOVIEInspired by Ish Patel's After Life, and Pliny's Natural History, I draw and transform medieval European creatures by drawing clay on a transmitted light stand. (Source: http://www.yamamura-animation.jp)
MOVIEThe 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)
TV SHORTA shadow painting anime about a timid giraffe named Noop and his hedgehog companion named Harry as they travel their distant star world helping each other.
SPECIALThis shows the pre-character designs and the pre-pilot scenes in animated in 3D CG. It is part animation, part live-action. The live-action part shows Suzuka Yoshida as she is the original character designer for the franchise with her drawing coming to life.
TVDuring ancient times, the hostile jellyfish-like aliens invaded Earth. One of the genius ape-man possessed the high-technology Dinosaur Configurator and defeated the aliens and saved the world. In present days, Configuration Technology has changed the entire world. Andy, Toothy and Hero have to defend together with the Super Force the world from the criminal scientist "The Mole" and the Space Jellyfish leader that invaded Earth millions years ago. The Space Jellyfish leader is trapped on Earth for many years and hopes to gain back its energy to conquer Earth again. Andy and his friends need to train and defend the Earth with their hi-tech robots -- The Configurators! (Source: CHINAnimax)
ONAA recruitment video/commercial commissioned by Kura Corporation, a Japanese sushi restaurant chain that specializes in conveyor belt sushi. The first episode is a young man trying his best to work hard at his new full time job. The second episode focuses on teenagers working there part time (and the young man from the previous episode has now become the manager of the restaurant).
MOVIEWith this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making GHOST of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, floating the skins in midair and then sticking them on different objects. This film was also shot entirely frame-by-frame with long-exposures. Along with GRIM, its meaning is ‘as if to do forever` (Source: Takashi Ito)
ONAThe dinosaur fantasy revolves around a 12-year-old named Yuta and Gobi — a moving fossil. The two embark on a journey with Yuta's friends to chase a fossil thief and find Gobi's stolen fossil mother. (Source: Anime News Network)
TVThe game takes place in a world created by a beings known as "Story Tellers." At birth, all inhabitants of this world are bestowed with a "book of fate" where all their lives are written in advance. However, rogue Story Tellers known as Chaos Tellers are writing bad events into people's books without them knowing. It is up to the holders of blank books of fate to seek out the Chaos Tellers and restore the world. (Source: Anime News Network)
