Anime like Ginga no Uo: URSA minor BLUE

Kujira no Chouyaku

Also known as Glassy Ocean.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Ai ga areba Daijobu , Tamura Shigeru Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

Time has come to a standstill. A whale appears from a glassy ocean and spends half a day soaring gracefully across the skies. What makes this works extraordinary is the artist's decision to use the transparency and visual bulk of 3D computer graphics only for the un-moving ocean and glaciers. The people, whale, and ships are all hand-drawn, and with this contrast, he invites the viewer into a different world. This is a poem written in animation, the creation of a true fantasy. This project was a considerable under taking, and the results are marvelous.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Elderly Protagonist , Iyashikei , Achronological Order , CGI , Ships

a piece of PHANTASMAGORIA

Studio: Tamura Shigeru Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

A collection of 15 short episodes depicting the magic world of Phantasmagoria.

Tags: Achronological Order , Philosophy , No Dialogue , Aliens , Kids , Work

Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru

Also known as Night on the Galactic Railroad.

Studio: Group TAC , TV Asahi , Nippon Herald Eiga , Asmik Ace , Asahi Shimbun
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

Based on a short story by the popular children’s writer Kenji Miyazawa, Galactic Railroad offers viewers a slow-paced, dreamlike journey through space and time. When Giovanni, a lonely boy in a hill town, goes to get milk for his ailing mother, he finds himself crossing the Milky Way on a faster-than-light steam railroad. The stations he visits in various constellations, like the planets explored by St. Exupery’s Little Prince, offer curious adventures and an assortment of human "types." Reality and fantasy blur aboard the train, and its travels across the light-years sometimes suggests the journey through life. The characters are depicted as cats, presumably to avoid the problems of animating humans.



Tags: Afterlife , Philosophy , Classic Literature , Trains , Tragedy , Anthropomorphism , Astronomy , Travel , Primarily Animal Cast , Animals , Space , Religion , Mythology , Male Protagonist , Kids , Bullying , Historical

Gon

Studio: TECARAT
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

A short film based on Niimi Nankichi's masterpiece, "Gon, the Little Fox", with a new story added based on an original interpretation. The film depicts the existence of barriers that man and beast cannot overcome. The stage is natural woodland close to a vllage in Japan, which is home to many small lives. This sad, yet gentle tale that unfolds in the beauty of nature.

Tags: Puppetry , Animals , Tragedy , Kids , Stop Motion

Nemurenai Yoru no Tsuki

Studio: TECARAT
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

A squirrel and a boy set out on a journey together to restore daylight. They must find and release the moon stuck high up on a tree somewhere far, far away.

Tags: Stop Motion