A collection of nine short films, each with their own story line, writer, director, and animation style. From CG to black and white, this anime offers plenty of fluctuations to suit your animation desires. The shorts are: “The Final Flight of the Osiris,” “The Second Renaissance: Parts 1 and 2,” “Program,” “Detective Story,” “Kid’s Story,” “Beyond,” “Matriculated,” and “World Record”.
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Tales of a Street Corner is the first experimental anime produced by the legendary mangaka Tezuka Osamu. It portrays how life circles around a certain street corner, with music leading the way, as animals, people, even posters and lamps interact with each other. Tezuka deliberately left the plot quite vague and concentrated his efforts on the emotional side. As every event is in sync with Takai Tatsuo’s musical score, and all characters are represented by their own distinct tunes, Tales of a Street Corner displays the whole gamut of emotion, varying from peacefully calm to warlike rage.
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Naota’s life in Mabase is the epitome of drab. Nothing exciting ever happens there, period. His family is about as immature as one can get and now his brother’s just left to play baseball in America. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, he gets run over by a beautiful, if psychotic, girl who, after a strange exchange of words (and guitar blows) speeds off. In the wake of this strange meeting, Naota then sees his world turned upside-down as robots start spontaneously popping out of his head and wreaking havoc on the town. It seems that the scooter-riding stranger is back and she has answers to what’s happening to Naota. So much for boring days…
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Labors are giant mecha, designed to assist humans in construction work in the new millenuim. To prevent the robots from causing extensive damage in case of a malfunction or an accident, a police force with equivalent mecha equipment is assigned to keep an eye on the Labors. This police force will surely come in handy when a newly installed operating system is causing some of the mecha to run amok. The creator behind this operating system is suspected to have something to do with the incidents, and a group of police officers from the Special Vehicle Unit-2, together with the help of two detectives are to discover how, what and why is causing all the problems.
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If you were to think of the most brutal and sadistic duo ever, who would you come up with? Hitler and Stalin? Darth Vader and Sauron? Martha Stewart and Donald Trump? I suggest you think again. Nekojiru Gekijou describes the everyday life of Nyatta and Nyako, two seemingly lovable kittens. There are also pigs, humans, and other animals in this series, and they’ve all got one thing in common: they all fall victim to vicious verbal and physical assaults from these cute looking cats. Nyatta and Nyako could be described as the most racist, most ignorant, most hateful, most politically incorrect characters seen in any show so far and it would still be an understatement.
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This is the tale about Isamu and Guld. Two fighter pilots who have been assigned one aircaft (mecha) each to be tested and promoted to a board of highly ranked military officers. These two hotheads were actually friends many years back, but a despute over a girl called Myung turned them into eachothers worst enemies. Now, years later, Myung arrives in town as the manager of a virtual pop-star called Sharon Apple, and the rivalry between Isamu and Guld is about to turn for the worse. Everything doesn’t seem to be quite right about miss Apple either, as this intergalactic love triangle sparks up.
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A six minute short clip shown through the eyes of a girl (or possibly a young boy), based on jumping. The main character, who’s never shown in this experimental clip, is jumping higher and higher, through forests and cities, only to end up on the same country road where she (or he) started.
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One day, a young girl is born out of an egg, into a seemingly sad looking place. She’s immediately surrounded by a group of females, who all have wings on their backs and halos on their heads. These angel-like women call her Rakka, and very soon the young girl will be just like them, having a pair of wings and a halo of her own. They all live in an old orphanage and take care of it, while going to the nearby town to work. The town, a nearby forest, and the orphanage all carry their own secret mysteries, and Rakka decides to find out who she really is, what she is doing in this strange place, and how she might escape it all.
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In the year 2029 a hacking program, created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for espionage purposes, is on the loose. This program, or rather a virtual being without a body, goes by the name of Puppet Master. Major Kusanagi Motoko, an android who had most of her body replaced with high-tech parts, and her male companion Bateau are put on the case. It’s a race against time to capture this rampant hacker, before it manages to find a mechanical body, suitable for defecting to another country. In this ‘neo-punk’ setting, nothing is what it seems to be, and everyone are to be treated as suspects.
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The evil Levi Rah has taken over Shinjuku, and turned it into a city crawling with nasty looking demons. In three days time all mankind will face its doom, as Rah is planning on opening the gates of hell in the heart of the city. Since no one has dared to enter the demon city in ten years, the future of humanity looks very uncertain. However, help is at hand form an unexpected source. A young girl named Sayaka is determined to face Levi Rah, as her father is being held hostage inside the demon city. Luckily she doesn’t have to do it all alone, as a young man named Kyoya decides to join her, and protect her from harm during this dangerous journey.
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