MOVIELaala and friends go on a "Puchuu Tour". They visit various planets around the solar system to spread the word about how wonderful PriPara is, but challenges await on each planet. (Source: PriPara Wiki)
MUSICMade famous in the Monster Strike anime special Monster Sonic, the Haitoku Pistols debuted their latest song Wishing on 12/1! A ballad backed by Lucy's powerful vocals (CV: Yōko Hikasa), Wishing will be featured as the main theme for the XFLAG original anime, Sorcery in the Big City! (Source: [English sub] Anime Monster Strike Official Channel)
MUSICAn animated music video for the song "Sora wa Koko ni Aru" by Ai Kawashima. The video was released on a limited edition DVD sold with her 22nd single.
ONAGMO Internet's full 3D CG two-minute anime special featuring its two female mascots. The video features the image song "Up To You" by Maaya Uchida and Sumire Uesaka. (Source: Anime News Network)
MOVIEIn Kei Oyama's grim Consultation Room, a medical diagnosis triggers a wave of traumatic fantasies, portrayed in greyish pencil drawings that waver as if left out for too long in the rain. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald)
MUSICOfficial music video for GReeeeN's 31st single Hello Kagerou released on February 7, 2018. A short version of the music video was posted on GReeeeN's official YouTube channel on January 11, 2018 to promote the full release as well as several campaigns, as the song itself is the official relay theme song for Fuji TV's broadcast of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. GReeeeN later uploaded the full version to their official YouTube channel on September 24, 2019, while subsequently making the short version unavailable.
MOVIEThe scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was lost? Graduate Work 2015 by Megumi Ishitani, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)
TVDuring the ancient Western Han dynasty (206BC-9AD), a series of disasters caused by occult phenomena swept across the entire world. Huainanzi, the mysterious Chinese book bound in bamboo, was ripped apart and sent through time to different historical junctures. The book pieces were transformed into various objects, waiting to be rediscovered. A hundred years later, a young man, named Hong Lie, lifts up the burden to collect the missing pieces of the ancient bamboo book. With the help of Ba Gong and his friends going through the Gate of 24 Solar Terms, Hong Lie travels through dynasties to search for the lost pieces. In his adventure, Hong Lie and his loyal friends, Ji Ming and Gou Tiao, experienced the greatness of the ancient legends, appreciating the wisdom of the ancestors from Chun Qiu Period, and witnessed all the weird things happening among ordinary people. Warmth and coldness, sadness and happiness, separation and reunion, stories led him to the great world in the book Huainanzi. Through exciting adventures, he also made lifelong friends. In this special way, Hong Lie communicated with ancestors and started to see the principle of world, realizing that obeying the laws of nature and being in harmony with the environment was the right thing to do. A simple collecting journey slowly became a challenging trip for him to go on with his family mission, and inherit the ancestor’s spirit. (Source: Wikipedia)
MUSICThese are six loosely-related anime/live-action music videos from the band Hi-Fi Set. For the most part, they form a story about the love life of two cute dragons who live in a high-tech future city. This disc was released in 1985, right in the middle of Hi-Fi Set's career (1974-1994), and features songs from that era (from their 1984 and 1985 albums Pasadena Park and Indigo). (Source: Piyo-Piyo Productions)
MUSICA music video created for the Sophie brand of Unicharm Co., Ltd. which manufacturers feminine hygiene products. The video features a song completely in English with Japanese subtitles. As stated by the company president, Takahisa Takahara, is that women spend 6 yrs and 9 months menstruating their entire lives. With advancing gender roles and longer lifespans, more women are staying in the work place and having more periods. Mensuration causes hormonal mood swings like that of a cranky edgy prickly hedgehog, starving craving hungry black bear, fragile crying [bloated] elephant, and reclusive lonely lion. These are normal changes and the women are still themselves. It promotes body positivity and how women shouldn't be brushed off in the work place if they are having an effect from a biological function that they have to go through for 6 yrs and 9 months.
MUSICOfficial music video for Nanoru Na mo Nai's song Bouken no Susume which was included on their "Akasha no Kuchibiru" album, animated by Takaharu Shimizu.
MOVIEChi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness? (Source: Official Website)
