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This year, it sudden shower a lot. When it sudden shower, people look up at the sky, fast walk, and point umbrellas. The motif in this animation is like that scenery of a bunch and be reminded scenery. (Source: Hirotoshi Iwasaki)

A very short animation drawn on tracing paper with a brush pen and coloured pencil. "This work was inspired by an impressive dream. In the dream, I took a dictionary that printed flip-books in the corner from a book shelf, and when I returned it, the book had disappeared." [Yuko Asano] (Source: KRAUT FILM)

Music video for the song ACA by Maruosa.

A Man (Adam) is walking and meets a Woman (Eve). They are drawn to each other, and as they continue their journey together, they are metamorphosed into different forms. While in love with each other, they both eat the forbidden fruit and end up losing their physical bodies. What will happen to them at the end of their lives, when they lose their bodies but still love each other with all their hearts? (Source: YouTube)

I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose leave me. Am I enjoying loneliness as I thought, or the ugliness of the people around me makes me feel being alone is actually not bad at all? (Source: Vimeo)

A man was born. He met a woman whom he fell in love with and kissed. They separated, but two people change shape and are reborn over time. A kiss is eternal. A journey of new life born from a kiss. (Source: YouTube)

Music video for the song Nareai Serve by ZUTOMAYO.

Music video for the song Ocean Bby by Mili.

One day out of blue Prof. Banno of next class came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his baldhead. Prof. Banno flew in a hot-air balloon the other day. Nobody knows anything about him afterwards. (Source: YouTube)

A photograph of a seated heterosexual couple, naked apart from their long necklaces, is rephotographed with a fixed camera that zooms outwards in one take. The colors subtly shift as the camera zooms out from their arm to eventually reveal their bodies over twelve minutes. Screened at the 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival 1971. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

A visceral depiction of the circle of life. Made by The Village of Marchen's Worku Team and directed by Masahide Kobayashi and Keita Funamoto.

Short film by Hirano Ryou.

Graduate Work 2021 by Minori Matsuoka, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn't even wish her happy birthday. Her friend Aya introduces a fortune teller said to be the real deal. What does destiny hold for them? This is a romantic comedy made during self-quarantine. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Music video for the song Fly High by THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS.

A short animation drawn on washi paper and cel with a marker and animex. Some kanji (they are used in the Japanese poem "Iroha Uta") metamorphose into various creatures. (Source: KRAUT FILM)

Music video for the song Ratpark by PEOPLE 1, featuring Kei Sugawara.

Graduate Work 2021 by Seo-Yeon Choi, Tama Art University.

A film by Keiichi Tanaami.

Anthology film by animation collective G9+1 about various interpretations of heaven.

A series of geometric shorts by Mirai Mizue.

A story about author and his neighbor in a hot summer. (Source: Vimeo)

Animation by Ryo Orikasa, based on Roland Barthes' writings on Cy Twombly.

Bio-Sensor is a 1984 Japanese computer-animated surreal short film produced by Takashi Fukumoto at Toyo Links and Hitoshi Nishimura at Osaka University. It's notable for its early use of primitive motion capture, using profile and head-on films of a tiger walking. (Source: Wikipedia)