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"In his early experimental short Karma (カルマ, 1977), Aihara uses water as his central motif. The film is hand drawn and appears to be shot on 16mm using a blue filter. At first we can only see tiny specks on the screen, coming and going like snow flurries. The specks gradually grow larger and take the shape of bubbles, then even larger into rivulets of water on a transparent surface." (Source: Nishikata Film Review)

A televised advertisement for Mode Gakuen, a vocational college in Japan located in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Paris. They specialize in fashion, styling, graphic design both in techniques as well as business. Every year they make a new student recruitment video with a tag line. For 2018, the video was animated with the tag line Suki na Koto dake wa, Shindemo Hanasu na★.

Music video for Nou Nen feat. utau by THE POTONE!

A short animation by Koji Yamamura, created in cooperation with the National Film Board of Canada.

Clay (technically gypsum) animation set to a beat with robots, scifi motif, and alligators with human arms. It was broadcasted a year later (1991) by the Japanese TV program Miyake Yuuji no Ebizori Kyoshou Tengoku, "Ebiten" for short, which showed works of independent film makers. This has the prototype character, Pulta, which was used for Bowda Katsuhi's Robot Pulta anime when he was hired by the NHK.

In a mixture of cut-out and hand-drawn animation techniques, Tanaami jumbles together symbols of American consumer culture –such as Coca Cola, Superman, Space Age astronauts and hamburgers– with occasional Japanese iconography, such as the squat toilet. The frenetic pace of the animation, the catchphrases and songs on the soundtrack as well as the hand-drawn CRT television monitor that occasionally frames the images makes reference to television commercials. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

A short film by Onohana.

Music video for the song Hiten by Ayase and R-Shitei. The song was featured as the first opening for Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023).

Polygon Pictures Inc.'s first animated work.

Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.

Short animation by Taro Shinkai.

Various scenes of predation.

Short animated film by Kuri Youji.

Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.

One rainy day, a woman wakes up, opens the curtains, and stares at her reflection in the window, noticing her curly hair. She climbs out of bed and begins to wash it, while strange images of self-hatred fill her mind.

Music video for the song Jikkyou Chuukei by RADWIMPS.

An animation of landscapes fluidly changing shapes.

Yoshiki Imazu's graduation work at Musashino Art University.

Independent animation by Furukawa Taku.

Music video by Tarafu Otani for the single Citrus by Japanese electronic artist Serph that is included on his compilation album "Nanotech Wizard".

THE END is an opera birthed out of the collaboration between Keiichirou Shibuya, director and script writer Toshiki Okada, and illustrator YKBX. This production does not feature any humans, and replacing all familiar elements of the non-existent singers and orchestras are aria and recitative by Hatsune Miku and Vocaloid, with a story told by computer-made music and visuals. This production tests taking the traditional tragic structure of an opera asking "What is death?" and "What is an end?" and puts Hatsune Miku as the mediator to reread it in a modern way. (Source: Official Site)

In the black and white world with so many animals relaxing, there are small rabbits called 'usa' dancing in their world. (Source: Official site)

Short CG clips compiled to an artsy DVD experience. FeiFei is a "virtual idol", the clips are entirely computer generated, except for the longest story where FeiFei is placed in a natural environment. (Source: AniDB)