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Nakazono Makoto is a high school student with a small dark secret. Since he was little, he has had the mysterious power to see grim reapers. One day, he is suddenly confronted by one of the grim reapers, Seno Akira: "Will you get in our way?" But Makoto replies with an air of resignation: "There's nothing I can do anyway, so I won't." At that moment, Makoto did not know of…

Inside a majestic museum, a young warrior gets attacked by shadow beasts born from people's fear and uncertainty over what they don't know. The warrior fights against them using the energy charger on his waist, but soon the energy runs out. In this desperate situation, he finds a new, unexpected source of power. Source: Official Youtube Note: the short was created for the…

* Based on Taiyo Matsumoto's manga series Tekkon Kinkurito. Kuro (black) and Shiro (white) are two orphans roaming the streets of Treasure Town, beating down any thug or yakuza who gets in their way. When mysterious foreign entrepreneurs appear with the intention of tearing down Treasure Town and replacing it with an amusement park, Kuro and Shiro face their greatest…

* Based on the manga by Miura Kentarou serialised in the seinen magazine Young Animal. Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a handsome and charismatic young man who leads the Band of the Hawk mercenary army. After Guts…

In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls - Tuan Kirie - grows up to be a…

Attraction is a revolutionary interactive anime film by Morimoto Kouji of Tokyo-based production studio 4°C and was requested by INPES (Institut national de prévention et d'éducation) to discourage first-time smokers. The interactive aspect of Morimoto's anime utilizes the viewer's web cam and motion alignment to allow the user to move about within the film. Viewers can also…

Confined in the castle tower by her father princess Arete spends her days watching the world outside her window. Sometimes she seeks out to watch the common people at work. The knights of the kingdom compete for the right to marry her and rule the land by competing to see who can find powerful magic objects made by a long dead race of sorcerers. Arete wants none of this. She…

In a futuristic world where humans and mermaids coexist, Stephan, a mild-mannered office worker at a shipbuilding company, whose life is upended when he is suddenly proposed to by Chao — a princess from the mermaid kingdom. With no time to make sense of what’s happening, Stephan soon finds himself living with the unpredictable, wholehearted Chao. As her sincere love begins to…