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An animation staring Gelée, an anthropomorphic cat character created by DLE.

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

A series of short films where Mirai Mizuki uploaded one abstract representation of a letter of the alphabet every day for 26 days.

Short film by Yamamura Kouji.

Based on a poem by Sakutaro Hagiwara. A child and an adult have different troubles. (Source: Official website)

Director's description: "I want to show you a world that you have never seen." I think this is something that all computer graphics producers strive for. What to create?! How do you create it with computer graphics? The skill of drawing does not change that much when performed on a computer instead of paper. This work is a mixture of traditional cel-based animation, 3-D animation and 2-D computer graphics techniques, each with its own history and production standards. My theme for this production was "The Transformation of Time and Space." I used ToonShader and hand drawn animation to achieve the desired effect. I think that I have succeeded in creating a world that you have never seen. (Source: plaza.bunka.go.jp)

Short film by Kabuki Sawako with music by Sugahara Shinsuke.

A mysterious man, wearing a mask with eyes on it, is unable to go anywhere because he is plugged into an electrical outlet. He sits in an alleyway while various people visit him, curious about who he is and why he is there. (Source: TMDB)

Death is the gateway to birth. The deceased crosses the line to join the kingdom of the dead. He sees there the dance of the sperm and the egg. He is drawn towards the sky. This is the path to the afterlife. (Source: starandshadow.org.uk)

Short film by Yamamura Kouji.

I finished this film in only two months after the completion of Playground. Inspired by optical illusions, like Escher's paintings, I made the film using isometric drawings. my idea was to make a great film using only transformations of rectangular parallelepipeds. I applied the method of geometric animation, a technique used in Metropolis, in this film. Along with "cell" animation, I continue making films with the application of this method. Hopefully, I will eventually discover a third alternative method to use in my films. (Source: Mirai Mizue)

Masanobu Hiraoka's 2015 non-narrative animated short.

Carefree, coquettish, and capricious, Tamala is the cutest girl-cat in dystopian Cat Tokyo, year 2030—or at any other point in the time/space continuum. She has randomly invited herself along on her detective friend Michelangelo's missing-person investigation. It seems the case is one of seven sudden vanishings in an astronomical pattern across Cat Japan that occurred at the exact same moment one night. Their search leads ever deeper into a mystery with ancient, occult roots and apocalyptic implications—and threads leading to Tamala herself. Shadowed by a covert agent of the Catty & Co. consortium, she may in fact be the greatest enigma. Indolent ingénue? Megacorporate mascot? Mythic messiah, or manifestation of cosmic malevolence? Anyhow, wow—she sure is a great dancer! (Source: Fantasia International Film Festival)

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

Independent, stop motion animation by Aihara Nobuhiro, combining drawings and real landscapes.

Creatures transform their own shapes innocently just as in a child's play. Tearing apart and uniting, this play continues endlessly. (Source: YouTube)

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects.

Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.

A haptic animation with comfortable noses. (Source: Official site)

Music video by Sawako Kabuki for cover of "Here, There and Everywhere" by The Beatles.

Dynamically expressing the growth and prosperity of organic plants with geometric figures.

Music Video by the dresscodes of the album's 6th track "Anime Mitai na" to promote the new Album "1".