In the woods is a company where animals work. One worker, the chameleon, is hurt by the ridicule from his colleagues. Can they come to understand each other?
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

It’s winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it’s showing what the hill is seeing.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Things are kind of crappy right now. In Japanese, we say “hanakuso (nose snot)” instead of crap, though. Here’s a dose of hope and giggles.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some minor occurrences in her daily life.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

The hands were born from the universes and pregnant with the universes. The new world with new one will appear, only if something antinomy can be harmonized.
 
1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

The Daily Life of a spirit that imitate human.
 
1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

I try to remember what your hand felt like on my back when I was a child. And now I place my hand on yours, bent from pain. Like landscaped gardens are meant to evoke the four seasons and the cyclical wonders of nature, I gaze at you, hoping to find us one more time.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and alarms began to ring through the city, and dawn came.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire body. He somehow manages to get away, but eventually, he returns to the ocean even though he knows that the demon will appear again if he goes there.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A story of a family of three consisting of a pig, fish and a tadpole that lives in the stomach of a big fish. Their lives are turned upside down when a fruit floats into their home.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Even though I feel like I’m living in the now, here, I think I just end up being in nowhere all the time. And in the nowhere, I find the now and the here.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

My animation expresses the sense of being left behind. It stems from the realities of my childhood and how they did not match up with what I was feeling back then.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Hanako always watches the other kids play but she is too timid to ask if she can join in. Then one day, Booger Gal rockets out of her and helps her nose into a new life.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

The fourth-grade protagonist is going through physical and emotional changes and feels awkward as she can’t help but compare herself to her friends. One day, she is blown away by her classmate Aya’s swimming and realizes that she has feelings for her.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Drawing upon Roland Barthes’s work of the same name, A Lover’s Discourse looks into intimate relationships. A couple playing a game in a café tries to talk about love but merely circles the topic, hardly reaching its essence. 
 
Graduate Work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Today, somewhere, a landscape is born on paper. Eventually, it will become immobile. But the landscape within us never ceases to flow and expand. The colors and shapes push and pull -- not even a moment of preservation. 
 
1st year work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

I am home to a body that is susceptible to lethargy. I struggle to find symbiosis between my metaphysical self and my corporal self. 
 
Graduate Work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

The cactus girl has just started living on her own. In that room she dozes off and wanders in a place that feels neither real nor unreal. 
 
1st year work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

I wonder if, as humans cultivate their gaze on the world, they can step into the uncharted realms of immeasurable darkness. 
 
Graduate Work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

From the creation of the human race to its final destination of being trapped in the point of permanence. 
 
Graduate Work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A life that could be anyone's. We live it a day and then upload it somewhere. We just keep adding a story to pass the time. 
 
1st year work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A rabbit slips and falls on banana peels. Don't try this at home. 
 
Graduate Work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

The freedom of summer vacation made me go on a rash journey. 
 
1st year work 2024, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)