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Two friends go on an adventure, gathering all kinds of ingredients to cook up an epic meal!

It's only the end of November and the hot springs town Yomase-machi was already a winter wonderland, having been dyed white from the falling snow. Yuuki moved to this snowy town to help his grandparents shovel snow at their home, the former boarding house Yamanouchi-sou. He met many warm-hearted people, including the shrine maiden Sayuki who worries about her inability to properly greet strangers, his mysterious but playful housemate and senpai Mizuki, and the local café's cheerful and energetic kouhai mascot Koharu. Even though he was still feeling lost, he tried to get used to living in this snowy land. During that time, his grandfather suggested that he find love while he is still young and lead a new life in earnest. Now's the time for him to take the first step and fall in love.

A pair of twin brothers cooperate to hunt magical animals to gain power. By chasing after desire, the younger one collapses into an unhuman creature, the elder one has no choice but to kill him.

The rotation of an atom ends up leading to dizzying movements throughout the world. Yoshiki Imazu's graduation work at Musashino Art University.

A painter who has lost the meaning of life due to war recalls a story from his childhood in a brief moment when he tries to commit suicide. The child picks up the doll that was left in the field and hides it at the base of a tree by the river. However, the doll is swept away by a flood, and the child who is trying to find the doll loses even an umbrella. After the flood stopped, the child went to the stream... He found a small fish in an umbrella hanging from a tree branch, took the fish in his hand, and released it to the stream...

A woman’s boyfriend is missing but he returns as a vampire and then things get weird.

A girl lives on the edge of (un)reality, and whenever she falls asleep, she disappears into uncanny dreams: a violin with broken strings, a room on fire, vacant streets, infinite staircases; a pair of flying hands guiding her (and us) through thorns and bushes, pulling out endless multiples of herself.

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

There are always some moments you don’t want to say a word. The world is silent and you turn silent.

Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas.

This film is about the risk of tuberculosis and the importance of disease prevention; produced by the Home Ministry Public Health Division Health and Medical Bureau.

A silent short about a moment in the day.

A rat happens to find a small theater and falls in love with a small wind-up doll girl there.

In a normal quiet Sunday, Dr. Evil Mantis attacted K-City unexpectedly with his gigantic claw, the entire city in panic and in danger. At the very critical moment, one young man stood out and fight the Dr. Evil Mantis. This is the moment for the hidden superhero, and his secret power is about to turn this chaos upside down. The Legend is about to begin...

A short Japanese animation film from 1934.

Based on an ancient proverb (which one could translate into ‘it’s dogged as does it’), this film tells about a fisherman who is disturbed by two pelicans and who disguises himself as a scarecrow to catch the two birds.

This animation shows how the liquid in a glass erupts, spreads, mixes, and overflows.

A team of workers is sent to planet Gliese 12b to build a gravitational portal. To conserve energy for survival on the frozen planet, each worker is allowed to speak only 113 words per day.

The child who went to the hospital with a mild cold goes home with his guardian during the dark winter. By the time he gets home, he falls asleep. He feels secure in his guardian's arms, recalling the afterimage of the past when he had previously felt similar emotions.

An OVA supercut of Eien no Once More, Long Goodbye, and Curtain Call

Some soldiers never get to leave the battlefield behind.

There is a strange, handsome, but pathetic man in her house.

Short experimental film by Takashi Ohashi

The ceremony performed every morning. The breakfast which never ends.

Dogs play a game of rugby against a team of unscrupulous monkeys.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making the film and completed it in four months.This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly varied the sounds, the greater is the number of creatures. I wanted to rid myself of the frustrating experience of making Devour Dinner, which was highly unsatisfactory from the viewpoint of the movement in the film. My intention in this film was to fill the screen with chaotic movements.

My father’s 100-year-old family home may soon be torn down. Filled with traces of past lives, it holds the weight of memory. To preserve those memories, I captured them on film.

A group of tanuki celebrate the moonrise while a rabbit on the face of the moon makes mochi in this nod to the folktale, “The Rabbit on the Moon.”

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Miso and Cocoming on Halloween Day disguise themselves as witches and Dracula, and invite their friends to a party. However, when the party starts and mysterious events occur, the co-commings are terrified. What is this over there? The great Angel Kokodosa has been attacked by someone and has collapsed?! The surprised Cocomings put their heads together to find the culprit with the clues left by Kokodosa, but as the mystery continues, they start to suspect each other...

Hong Kong is facing tyranny, and a pair of brothers are marching on their own ways in the revolution. However, the horror is approaching, and it’s like this city knows everything, it reborns after it collapses. There seems to be a huge energy behind this, asking inwardly: What is the fight for?

A bride runs at full speed, with her veil flapping, and with steam. When you happen to encounter a bride in her wedding dress, you would love to bless her with a wave of your hand. Brides symbolize beauty and happiness. They are also athletes who won their happiness.

A snow hut in the middle of the rice paddy. Now, let's see what to do, in the space full of whiteness and quietness, until the Spring comes. Until the snow hut melted, and lose shape.

A second collaboration with Town Work. Jobuubu is looking for a job and so is the Chancellor as he was fired from his previous one. The two run into each other on the street after having an unsuccessful job hunt. Chancellor takes Jobuubu back to the Eagle Talon headquarters where they discover that he has the ability to repair hand dryers. The repair not only makes it dries properly but gives the user a sense of pure bliss. Together they team up; Chancellor finds clients while Jobuubu does the repairs. Queen Electronic, one of the manufactures of the hand dryers, gets wind of them and invites them to work on new ideas for their company in order to improve their old products. But a rival company wants to make sure they don't succeed.

A girl from an orphanage and a stray puppy save each other from loneliness. There is an indissoluble connection between them.

Surreal Short Movie

I put together a work with the theme of "traffic crossing". Convert the video footage into still images frame by frame, and use non-linear editing again. I'm back to video. The shooting location is mainly in Yokohama City, The train was taken from Kamoi to Nakayama on the Yokohama Line. The plane was taken while panning a passenger plane flying on the same route from Haneda. The material is created by overlapping layers in Photoshop.

Robo99, who lost his heart while helping the red bird Dodo, travels to a heart factory where no one has been to get a heart and achieve his dream. The story is the first episode Robo99 experiences on a trip.

This film is based on concepts of panic attacks and ornithophobia. The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.

The film is a work on environmental protection. Through the combination of physical objects and animation, it appeals to people to show mercy and love our green grassland.

A camel looking for his missing wife in the desert faces the dilemma of chasing after his treasure or continuing his journey. It's the story of how someone recognises the most important thing in life while suffering from dementia.

The piece is composed of four movements, imitating classical sonata form, and features photographs of walls, gravel roads, etc., which are likened to musical scales. At the climax, the photographs are shredded into pieces and their colors are changed by adding paint, creating a dazzling "visual music."

Braised pork balls with brown sauce, boiled chicken, some fish, a lot of side dishes, pricey fruits, steamed sponge cake, red bun...and mom’s favorite cake. Okay, we’re all set!

Memories of an absent loved one assume a form of their own as they emerge from a forgotten old video camera in this gorgeous, wistful work of austere graphic minimalism. – Rupert Bottenberg

A fairy-tale telling the story of a wealthy, spoiled princess Katharine who got changed into "normal" girl by a Witch and now have to live among common village folks adapting to their modest lifestyle.

The boy lives in the city of 2049. Science and technology are developed, life is adjusted. But the residents of the city have already forgotten what freedom is. The boy lives a lonely life, like a zombie. And then one day the boy receives an anonymous letter, which says: "Do you want freedom?»

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

The bloom of wild roses connects an aging soldier from a large country with a youthful soldier from a small country, but the two are soon parted as one of them becomes a casualty of war.

Renzo Kinoshita's animated self-portrait.

Day 2 / Stage 3 for “Capture the Moment” Savor it. Treasure it. Continued growth since 1st fes. Cherished memories. Emotions. A future that is built to last. And this moment is no less precious. Treasure every moment, most importantly this very one. Here, now. In staying true to those ideals, hololive 5th fes. will take place on a three-sided stage – an unprecedented and monumental first for hololive production! Connecting past, present, and future, we aim to hold a performance the likes of which have never before been seen.

Hurricane Live 2033: More Music of the Bubblegum Crisis spotlights the music that helped to make 80's series The Bubblegum Crisis the popular early piece of anime that its become. The hard rock songs of Priss and the Replicants are played amidst a video montage of the series' most exciting action sequences, and rarely seen live footage from the musicians themselves is also included.