Anime catalog
Found: 354
★ 4.8anti-chaos
Kyouhakuteki na Chijo ni Tsuite Kaeru
Movie · Comedy
Synopsis: It's a story about a frog, who is eager to make his companions stand as a line. He is the only one who wears an armlet, and has a little different skin color from the other frogs. This work focus on the relationship between "rulers" and "ruled ones", and describes the consequence…
★ 5.1Googuri Googuri
Googuri Googuri
Movie · Fantasy, Music
Synopsis: "Googuri Googuri" - a made up word, a secret word, shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the girl, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at other times like a tree, or an ocean; a warm and comfortable place. Her thoughts take wing into her endless imagination. The thin…
★ 4.7Radio Wave
Radio Wave
Movie · Psychological
Synopsis: Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of codes.
★ 5.0Out of My Mind
Out of My Mind
Movie · Drama, Psychological
Synopsis: Deep within my dream, there comes a landscape in my shapeless eyes. The peaceful sight gradually distorts. When anxiety and upsurge stands behind us, the nightly liberation begins. (Source: YouTube)
★ 5.2Our Little Pond
Watashi no Touchika
Movie · Drama
Synopsis: I’m the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by pretending the selfish girl and my friends with complicated family backgrounds don’t bother me.
★ 5.0Fleeting Dream
Tamayura no Yume
Movie · Drama, Psychological
Synopsis: A girl is informed by her doctor that she is pregnant. Surprised by the unexpected announcement, falls into an anguish. The fleeting dream is a despairing dream. (Source: Geidai Animation)
★ 5.2My secret school days
Sumikko no Ko
Movie · Psychological, Slice of Life
Synopsis: It would be so much better if everyone just went away... A girl who hates school sits in the corner of the classroom and creates an imaginary world. 1st year work 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai A…
★ 4.9Hide-and-seek
Kakurenbo
Movie · Psychological
Synopsis: The film covered a residential area with a superb view of both ocean and mountain. From that day, this town became dark as pitch. Hidden in this darkness were lights in the town, my way home, my mother, and my expected baby in my belly. This animation depicts the truth hiding beh…
★ 5.1Fluffiction
Mofumofuiction
Movie · Comedy, Fantasy
Synopsis: A cavalcade of heretofore unheard-of critters, great and small, cute and hirsute. (Source: Fantasia Festival)
Mind Game
Keijijyou no Mugenshikou
Movie · Psychological, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: The devices not used for a story are fed and then destroyed. This is a reproduction of reminiscence when a heroine runs about a neuron in a moment of waiting for the world that didn’t happen. 1st year work 2014 by Risa Yamashita, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of F…
★ 4.7Helpless void
Helpless void
Movie · Horror, Psychological
Synopsis: At night, a man holds out his own leash into the void. He has to explode in order to escape.
★ 4.6Where He Can Relax
Ansoku no Basho
Movie · Slice of Life
Synopsis: After losing a job at the company a man starts working part-time handing out balloons in a rabbit costume. He finds it comfortable to disguise himself in the costume, as nobody would recognize him. Finally he decides to wear the costume all time in daily life. Then the costume be…
★ 4.8The Pearl Remains
Shinju Kusa
Movie · Psychological
Synopsis: A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and become enclosed within the pearl. 1st year work 2018, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department …
★ 5.0Bath House of Whales
Kujira no Yu
Movie · Slice of Life
Synopsis: Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking child-like fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy beco…
★ 4.9Writings fly away
Scripta Volant
Movie · Fantasy
Synopsis: Graduate animation by Ryo Orikasa, based The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.
Better back then
Shoujo no Ito, Mahou no Ito
Movie · Fantasy
Synopsis: A girl is kept on the trot by a witch and continues to peel potatoes. She is fed up and tries to escape in vain. She gets desperate and decides to beat the witch... After all what will she find? What is her intention? Can we undo what has been done? Graduate Work 2011, Tokyo Univ…
★ 4.9I Wanna Be Your Friend
I Wanna Be Your Friend
Movie · Comedy, Psychological
Synopsis: An award-winning short film following a claymation figure trying to befriend others. As stated in the video's official synopsis, "For friendship it is the most important to be cooperative."
★ 4.1From a stone
Ishi kara
Movie · Psychological
Synopsis: Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end. Graduate Work 2013 from Tatsuhiro Ariyoshi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Ani…
★ 5.1Scape Escape
Zenbu Wakatteru
Movie · Psychological
Synopsis: A man returns to his apartment at the end of the day completely disheartened. As he goes to light a cigarette, the flame takes on a life of its own.
★ 4.5Bring me up
Tsumamareru Koma
Movie
Synopsis: Almost everyone in our contemporary society is picked up and moved around by someone or something, like in a game of Sugoroku. Those who first do so are our parents. We follow a boy who grows up along on Sugoroku board, during which he depends on his parents. His family play the …
★ 4.9Hear the Snow Melt
Yukidoke wo Kiite
Movie · Music
Synopsis: A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts. (Source: Geidai Animation)
Awakened Seed
Jian Ji
Movie · Psychological
Synopsis: Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there? This is a journey of blind pursuit for wisdom. Xueqing Shao's graduate work 2016, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of…
Blink in the Desert
Blink in the Desert
Movie · 2021 · Psychological
Synopsis: Malice comes up abruptly. As if it is blinking. Capricious like a flapping insect. One day the boy finds a winged insect and crushes it out of disgust. Meanwhile, the elephant sees the whole situation but says nothing. From that day on, the boy is chased by shadows of the winged …
★ 4.5Starting Over
Furidashi
Movie · Psychological
Synopsis: You always stumble before you arrive. The glass in your hand gets chipped with every fall. Then, you start again. However, there are things you can discover only through repetition. The answer resides in yourself. (Source: YouTube)
