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Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Studio: Seven Arcs , DMM music , Kodansha , DMM pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Bit Grooove Promotion , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: The anime premiered on Netflix on Sep 25, 2021 in Japan. The TV broadcast started on Oct 2, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Educational , Seinen , Philosophy , School Club , Time Skip , Bisexual , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Femboy , Nudity

With All Our Hearts

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Music

A short film by ex-Ghibli director Hiromasa Yonebayashi with the students of Kanezawa College of Art for the promotion of its new campus.

Tags: Advertisement , Drawing , No Dialogue

Watashi no Hashtag ga Haenakute.

Studio: Bandai Namco Filmworks , Kyocera
Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

The anime takes place in the "smart city" envisioned by Kyocera. In the short, people express themselves through hashtags on aerial displays. Yume, who lacks self-confidence, tries to come up with a special hashtag, known as a "rare tag." Minoru, her senior, has multiple "rare tags."



Tags: Advertisement , College

Tounen-bun no Watashi e

Studio: FLAT STUDIO
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A concept movie animated by FLAT STUDIO for the All Nippon Esthetic Association (AEA).

The friendship between "Saki" who aims to be an esthetician and "Umi" who aims to be a model expresses that "by being close to a person, you can change that person little by little and eventually change the world."



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast

SHIROBAKO

Also known as SHIROBAKO.

Studio: P.A. Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Once upon a time, five girls made an animated film and it was so much fun that they pledged to get jobs in animation so that someday they could make another film together. Now, two years later, Aoi, Shizuka, Ema, Misa and Midori have learned the truth about the anime industry: it's not always fun, it's anything but easy, and having talent isn't always enough to open the right doors.

Which is why Aoi's overwhelmed by her job as a production assistant, Shizuka's waiting on tables between auditions, Midori's currently scriptless, Misa's switched to C.G., and Ema's working long hours as a key animator. Is it what they imagined? No. But are they ready to give up? Not just yet! Sometimes, when things happen in animation, they can happen in the most wonderful ways!



Tags: Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Otaku Culture , Educational , Office Lady , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Office , Acting , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Cars , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast

Palette: Shikisai no Shoujo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Animated graduation work by Hirota Hirata.

There was no "color" in the boy's world. One day the boy finds an old palette in a closet. When the palette opened, a little girl with colored eyes appeared from inside. The things she touched were magically colored one after another, and the boy, fascinated by the "colors" reflected in the black and white world, ran after the girl. "Show me the color, you just have to do it again."



Tags: Achromatic , Magic , No Dialogue

Iro wo Shiru Tabi, Sekai ga Hiroku Naru.

Studio: CloverWorks
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A series of shorts directed by Ayako Kurata. Made as a collaboration between the color test company Shikisai Kentei Kyoukai, animation studio CloverWorks, and mangaka Tsubasa Yamaguchi.

Episodes:
1) 色を知るたび、世界が広くなる「就活篇」/ Iro wo Shiru Tabi, Sekai ga Hiroku Naru.: Shuukatsu (August 18, 2022)
2) 色を知るたび、世界が広くなる「私の仕事篇」/ Iro wo Shiru Tabi, Sekai ga Hiroku Naru.: Watashi no Shigoto-hen (August 25, 2022)

Tags: Work , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist