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The story is about Tsukamoto Yuuji, a young buisnessman and great swimmer, and Matsui Takahiro, who is still attending school and is also a beginner in swimming.

A huge mysterious comet is on a collision course with earth. A crash is averted, but the near miss causes tidal waves, exploding mountains and huge earthquakes. The earth cracks apart and up from the depths come creatures from the past. Huge dinosaurs begin to roam the planet, a planet now covered with swamps and jungles. Then, as suddenly as they came to life, the dinosaurs begin to die. Only the DINOSAUR PATROL can restore order on earth. Or can they?

The story takes place in approximately the year 3000, when humankind arrived at the peak of its civilization, but is losing its will to keep living. It follows a girl, called "princess" by those around her, who lives on a small island with a fifty-person colony and a shining coral reef. She is a descendant of the Moon people, and the story focuses on how her ancestors supposedly came to Earth.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

Short animated mystery.

Seven classic fairy tales animated in stop motion. The stories include Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling, Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom (花咲か爺さん).

After losing a job at the company a man starts working part-time handing out balloons in a rabbit costume. He finds it comfortable to disguise himself in the costume, as nobody would recognize him. Finally, he decides to wear the costume all the time in his daily life. Then the costume becomes a part of his body and confines him inside. . .

A spider attempts to lure a ladybug into his web. When she manages to escape and hide in a tulip, a storm comes that batters the spider, while the ladybug remains safe.

Short animation made by anno in his uni days

Eleven naughty cats on the run from the neighborhood police chief hear that a giant fish is nearby for the taking. They go on a hazardous quest find it, learning that they must work as a team to reach their goal.

Short film where the hero Hatanosuke battles with an evil gang of thieves.

The series, based on the first 16mm film that was shot in a studio with Nakajima’s family and birds, moves through media and processing transformations over many iterations over the years. Once transferred to video, digital effects were added using the “Animaker,” an electronic image synthesizer that he invented (also nicknamed “Ko-puter”). Total of 6 parts exist.

What is love? Two robots abandoned by their previous owner are with a new owner, a scientist. A story about the meaning of love.

The view from the window takes me far beyond.

A short anime based on Kenji Miyazawa's fairytale "Twin Stars" where Chunse Doji and Boze Doji live in the Milky Way.

Momo-chan, the pet cat of the Hanazaki family, goes missing after being kidnapped by another cat during a family trip. To help Momo-chan's owner, Emi-chan, who has lost all her energy, and to find Momo-chan, Tama and the others set out on a journey to search for her. Along the way, they encounter a swallow named Tsubakuro and discover Momoko, but there they are met by Blackfoot, the leader of a group of cats abandoned by humans, and his subordinate Bobtail. Will Tama and the others be able to bring Momoko back safely?

In this original story by Hoshiyama Hiroyuki, Kitty White hears from friends about recent UFO sightings and goes to inspect one of the UFO crash sites, to learn more about it and the aliens that came with it.

A child is watching a music video on his television screen.

The humble line has a life of its own. As it travels from one point to the next it can take whatever route it fancies. With plenty of ups and downs, it encounters all manner of random items and beings as it endlessly travels towards its destination. But when lines become objects it can all go wrong. - MUBI

Story of Qs. Three Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging, turning, and traveling.

Music video for Jin's seventh published song, created for IA Project's compilation album IA/01 -BIRTH-.

Pokopon version of Journey to the West.

Based on the children's book by Masako Matsuno.

An animated pilot film for Band of Ninja released to the public over three decades later on The Legend of Ninja Kamui DVD volume 7. The pilot film was created in 1969 as director Nagisa Ōshima was wanting to make a TV animation to build off his controversial film from 1967. The pilot was rejected by Shirato himself (the original comic creator the film was based on) and the plan was changed to animate Kamui Gaiden instead, a side story to the Kamui manga also created by Shirato. Though with this change, Ōshima did not partake in The Legend of Ninja Kamui's production.

A white elephant, adored by his friends, has a mother who is blind. One day, the white elephant is captured at the king's request. However, the king, who is kindhearted, decides to send the white elephant back to the forest because he is worried about his mother and does not eat his food.

One night as I was walking through the forest, a robber steals my bookmark. I chase him only to end up in an endless void of darkness.

A man is left alone in empty white space. He starts to create his own world with materials popped up out of nowhere and build a house and made animals. But there is a hole in this world and he wonders about it. In the meanwhile he learns there is the border where they can survive around the hole.

A festival cut/compilation of the animated segments made by Yamamura Kouji for a TV documentary by NHK, Kojiki Girl Travelogue (古事記ガール 日向路を旅する). The 4 episodes that compose The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki are: #1 The Cleansing (禊/ Misogi, 3’17”) #2 Sun Goddess Amaterasu (天照大御神/ Amaterasu Ookami, 2’11”) #3 Flowering Tree (木花之佐久夜毘売/ Konohananosakuya-bime, 2’31”) #4 Umisachi and Yamasachi (海佐知山佐知/ Umisachi Yamasachi, 3’30”)

The story will depict Joe Shimamura and the other cyborgs' struggle with the Bresudo, a group of people who possess superhuman powers and intellect, and have manipulated human history since ancient times. Their goals are unknown, and they cast a dark shadow over the world. Though few people believe in the Bresdo's existence, one American journalist named Lucie Davenport heads to Texas to contact a certain family, and she meets the cyborgs. The cyborgs themselves have been freed from their duty of protecting humanity ever since the establishment of the UN Guardian troops, and they now live quiet lives of peace.

Our Bright Parade is hololive's musical concert portion of the SUPER EXPO 2023. As with the previous fes concert, this will be fully 3D Augmented Reality, with talent moving around the stage and accompanied by a live band. This year has been described as "a nonstop shiny stage where anyone can join the parade anytime, regardless of generation and boundary".

Animated video for the video game Guilty Gear X, included in the extras of its sequel Guilty Gear X2.

Short film by Shunsaku Hayashi.

A girl braids her classmate's long hair. She remembers the moments with her friend... Did all these actually happen?

Wartime propaganda film loosely based on the attack on Pearl Harbour in which Fuku-chan assaults a den of thieves who had been terrorizing the town.

A music clip OVA using full versions of songs from the anime.

Short animation directed by an illustrator and picture book writer Furukawa Taku.

Sora arrives at a mysterious hotel and spends a few days there, learning many things. One night, guided by the light, she steps into a large tree, where a magical space awaits her, with sparkling gems all around. Sora is absorbed in collecting the colorful, sparkling gems. What do these sparkles show?

This is an experimental animation work in which overflowing images and individual stories burst, mix, and burst again.

This is a story of PLUG and his friends, who live in the Zero Emission world, sharing energy each other, harmoniously.

The third installment for the agent blue franchise.

Based on a shoujo manga written and illustrated by Shinohara Chie serialised in Shoujo Comic. The original story follows the struggles of a teenage girl after she finds herself turning into a lycanthropy-leopard and having to battle her newly found predatory instincts. (Source: AniDB)

Short animation from Takeshi Koike for the SMAnime

Animals of Maple Town teach you about traffic safety and how to properly follow traffic laws and rules.

A little sparrow, Chunko, cannot make her head still like other sparrows.She wonders why.

The story is based on the traditional, Japanese myth of Urashima Taro; in which a fisherman is transported from the seashore into a fantastic underwater world on the back of a giant turtle.

The story will depict Joe Shimamura and the other cyborgs' struggle with the Bresudo, a group of people who possess superhuman powers and intellect, and have manipulated human history since ancient times. Their goals are unknown, and they cast a dark shadow over the world. Though few people believe in the Bresdo's existence, one American journalist named Lucie Davenport heads to Texas to contact a certain family, and she meets the cyborgs. The cyborgs themselves have been freed from their duty of protecting humanity ever since the establishment of the UN Guardian troops, and they now live quiet lives of peace.

A psychopathic killer known as Egg Man has been caught, incarcerated and is awaiting his death sentence. Karen, a beautiful and brave police woman, is assigned to the "Egg Man" case to find the whereabouts of a missing dead body. Egg Man meets his cellmate, Prisoner 205. Who is Prisoner 205? Is Prisoner 205 another in-mate awaiting his death sentence as well or an android utilized by the police to collect information about him and his knowledge of the corpse? Who is really manipulating whom?

Mendou hires a new personal Ninja with some very unusual abilities, only to have him fall head-over-heels for his manipulative sister, Ryoko.

Set in the year 2088, it depicts a dark future in which humans have been transformed into the "Guilstein," creatures with no human souls in them... Based on a manga by Tamaki Hisao.

A black cat sings and dances, animated using cut-outs.

This work features the salt marshes of Montpellier France, and uses computer graphics to create fantastical imagery.

The film is a journal of a woman who travels in time, in peoples and in mind.

Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion) while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short features a speeding car with physics-defying tires.

A short animation by Takashi Taniguchi

When injured or ill, the sense of our own body's physical existence, of which we are not normally aware, enters our consciousness. Swollen lumps, dull pain, infection, fevers, bleeding, etc.; particularly intense are childhood memories concerning the body. Using a collage of blown up shots of skin and subtly wavering stop-motion, the creator of this work makes us conscious of the fact that "we are simply bags of flesh".

Independent animation by Tsukioka Sadao.

12 little bears live in a dormitory on a mountain. The first 11th little bears are boys, but the 12th is a only girl, and she is a main character, Jackie. Curious and loving jokes, She is always having fun with her kind brothers. One day, Jacky and her brothers went for a trip. They met a girl bear, Katy. Jacky and Katy easily become friends. But Katy was sickly and became ill. Jacky and her brother begin an adventure to make Katy healthy.