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Ani*Kuri15

Studio: GONZO , Gainax , Production I.G , MADHOUSE , Horipro , Studio 4°C , CoMix Wave , Satelight
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".

Season One
1) Shinji Kimura - Attack of Higashimachi Ni Chome/Attack of Higashimachi 2nd Burough
2) Akemi Hayashi - Namida no Mukou/From the Other Side of the Tears
3) Yasufumi Soejima - Hyotoko/Blaze Man
4) Osamu Kobayashi - Sancha Blues/The Aromatic Tea Blues
5) Shinjiro Nishimi - Uchujin Raikou Hiroshi no Baai/Invasion from Space - Hiroshi's Case

Season Two
6) Mamoru Oshii - Project Mermaid
7) Kazuto Nakazawa - "yurururu" ~Nichijou Hen~
8) Range Murata and Tatsuya Yabuta - Gyrosopter
9) Tobira Oda and Yasuyuki Shimizu - Sport Captain Episode No.18: Assassin Descended from the Mountain Hunt!!
10) Atsushi Takeuchi - Wandaba Kiss

Season Three
11) Makoto Shinkai - Neko no Shuukai/A Gathering of Cats
12) Mahiro Maeda - Onmitsu Hime
13) Michael Arias - Okkakekko
14) Shouji Kawamori - Project Omega
15) Satoshi Kon - Ohayou/Good Morning

Tags: Anthology , Robots , Henshin , Meta , CGI , Flash , Historical , Nudity , Slapstick , Animals , Drawing , Work , Aliens , Episodic , Stop Motion , Kids

Nihon Animator Mihonichi

Also known as Japan Anima(tor)’s Exhibition.

Studio: Studio Khara
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Fantasy , Mecha , Music , Supernatural

Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition is the showcase of the animations produced by various directors with love and energy, which are planned from original projects, spin-off projects, promotional films, Music PV, and VJ Films etc...

Episodes:
01: The Dragon Dentist (Directed by Outarou Maijou)
02: HILL CLIMB GIRL (Directed by Azuma Tani)
03: ME!ME!ME! (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki)
04: Carnage (Directed by Akira Honma)
05: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of Key Animation Films (collection of key animation from 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam)
06: 20min Walk From Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed (Directed by Takeshi Honda & Mahiro Maeda)
07: Until you come to me. (Directed by Tadashi Hiramatsu)
08: Tomorrow from there (Directed by Akemi Hayashi)
09: Denkou Choujin Gridman: boys invent great hero (Directed by Akira Amemiya)
10: YAMADELOID (Directed by Takashi Horiuchi & Masahiro Emoto)
11: POWER PLANT No. 33 (Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura & Kengo Saito)
12: Evangelion: Another Impact (Confidential) (Directed by Shinji Aramaki)
13: Kanón (Directed by Mahiro Maeda)
14: SEX and VIOLENCE with MACHSPEED (Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi)
15: Obake-Chan (Directed by Shigeto Koyama)
16: Tsukikage no Tokio (Directed by Takanobu Mizuno)
17: THREE FALLEN WITNESSES (Directed by Satoru Utsunomiya)
18: The Diary of Ochibi (Directed by Masashi Kawamura)
19: I can Friday by Day! (Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki)
20A: ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC feat.daoko / TeddyLoid (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki, remix of short #3)
20B: (Making of) evangelion:Another Impact (Making of video of short #12)
21: ICONIC FIELD (Directed by Ikuto Yamashita)
22: IBUSEKI YORUNI (Directed by Tadashi Hiramatsu)
23: Memoirs of amorous gentlemen (Produced by Cork Inc.)
24: Rapid Rouge (Directed by Daisuke Onitsuka)
25: HAMMERHEAD (Directed by Otaro Maijo)
26: COMEDY SKIT 1989 (Directed by Kazuto Nakazawa)
27: BUBU & BUBULINA (Directed by Takashi Nakamura)
28: ENDLESS NIGHT (Directed by Sayo Yamamoto)
29: BUREAU OF PROTO SOCIETY (Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura)
30: The Ultraman (Directed by Akitoshi Yokoyama)
31: GIRL (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki)
32: Neon Genesis IMPACTS. (Directed by Yuhei Sakuragi)
33: Ragnarok (Directed by Kazuyoshi Katayama)
34: Robot on the Road (Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura)
35: Cassette Girl (Directed by Hiroyasu Kobayashi)

Note: #20A and #20B (special) are counted as two separate episodes in the episode total.

Tags: Anthology , Nudity , Ero Guro , Episodic , Super Robot , Gore , Musical Theater , Surreal Comedy , Satire , No Dialogue , Cycling , Military , Space , Guns , Revenge , War , Swordplay , Magic , Kaiju , Disability , Henshin , Dragons , Cyberpunk , Real Robot , Samurai , Stop Motion , Dissociative Identities , Post-Apocalyptic , Noir

SHORT PEACE

Also known as SHORT PEACE.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

An anthology of four standalone films encompassing different genres.

Tsukumo (Possessions)
A lost wanderer seeks refuge inside a shrine where he finds lots of possessed objects.

Hi no Youjin (Combustible)
The movie depicts the events that led to the Great Fire of Meireki which destroyed more than half of the Japanese capital city of Edo.

Gambo (Gambo)
A young girl asks a white bear to defeat a vicious ogre that is kidnapping the first born girls of a small village.

Buki yo Saraba (A Farewell to Weapons)
In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of soldiers is sent to a ghost city to destroy an automated sentry.

Note:
Tsukumo and Hi no Youjin received advanced individual screenings at the Annecy Animation Film Festival in June 2012.
Hi no Youjin and Buki yo Saraba are based on Katsuhiro Ootomo's manga of the same name, whereas Tsukumo and Gambo are original stories.

Tags: Anthology , CGI , Historical , Post-Apocalyptic , Full CGI , Desert , Samurai , Military , Demons , Gore , Nudity

Amazing Nuts!

Also known as Amazing Nuts!.

Studio: Horipro , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Music , Romance , Sci-Fi

Amazing Nuts! is an anthology of four animated shorts with each featuring its own distinct animation style and music by Studio 4°C.

Global Astroliner Gou
Glass Eye
Kung-Fu Love
Joe and Marilyn

Tags: Anthology , Rotoscoping , Foreign , Police , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , CGI , Space , Heterosexual , Martial Arts , Full CGI , Fugitive , School , Musical Theater

Chiisana Eiyuu: Kani to Tamago to Toumei Ningen

Also known as Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1.

Studio: Studio Ponoc
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

Modest Heroes will consist of three shorts by three different directors: "Kanini & Kanino" ("Kani no Kanino") by Hiromasa Yonebayashi will be a 15-minute fantasy adventure story of two crab siblings, and will be long. "Life Ain't Gonna Lose" ("Samurai Egg") by Yoshiyuki Momose will be a 15-minute "human drama" showing the love between a mother and a boy. "Invisible" ("Toumei Ningen") by Akihiko Yamashita will be a 14-minute "action spectacle" that centers on the lonely struggle of one invisible man. Studio Ponoc describes the shorts as "tales of modest heroes of our times."



Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Anthology , Animals

Sweat Punch

Also known as Sweat Punch.

Studio: Horipro , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Mecha , Music , Sci-Fi

Sweat Punch is a series of five Studio 4°C shorts collected as a direct-to-DVD package film entitled Deep Imagination.

Tanpetori Kyouju no Yuuutsu (タンペトリー教授の憂鬱, Professor Dan Petory's Blues)
A musical number starring a hand puppet named Junior. The puppet is controlled by the drunken Professor Dan Petory who explains in puppetry the answers to such questions as why the Earth is blue and why UFOs fly in a zig-zag pattern.

End of the World
"End of the World" is a science fiction story about a young alien girl named Yuko as she escapes from the world of humans. After meeting Kazumi, a human girl Yuko met at a rock concert, the girls head to Kazumi's apartment. Before Yuko even takes off her shoes, however, she leaves through Kazumi's TV with her trusty cybernetic steed FACE to wage a retaliatory campaign against hordes of S&M monsters from another dimension, and the evil queen of Yuko's world.

Kigeki (喜劇, Comedy)
Set during the Irish War of Independence, a five-year old girl goes out in search of the mysterious Demon’s Castle - home of the Black Knight whose services she hopes to recruit. The Black Knight is a dark, young, skilled swordsman who will only accept a particular genre of books as advance payment.

Higan (彼岸, Enlightenment)
An injured man lies completely still in a hospital room with doctors hovering at his bedside, appearing serene and peaceful as he slowly succumbs to death. However, in his own mind, memories of a recent battle vividly flash by. Thoughts of death and chaos haunt him, even in his final moments.

Garakuta no Machi (ガラクタの町, Junk Town)
One summer day, a young boy encounters a little robot at a shopping arcade-a hungry little robot, it turns out, as he devours one machine after the other, growing in size with each "meal". This story of a boy, a machine, and their little adventure is the tale of an unusual friendship, enriched by the details of daily life and seen through the director's unique visual style.



Tags: War , Anthology , Demons , Real Robot , Historical , Musical Theater , Aliens , CGI