The story centers on Toruru, as he searches for his younger sister Haruru, through multiple dimensions with the help of the NaSuBi. This anime short features different directors for worlds Toruru visits: 
 
Dimension One: Time Master directed by Tatsuyuki Tanaka (Tojin Kit, Digital Juice) 
Dimension Two: Crazy Consumption directed by Sayo Yamamoto (Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life) 
Dimension Three: The Last of the Flowers directed by Tomoyuki Niho (Birdy the Mighty: Decode) 
Dimension Four: The Door to the Future directed by Takashi Nakamura (Catnapped! The Movie) 
 
(Source: Anime News Network)
 
Note: Screened at Japan Anime Award Festival 2014, as a special screening at the time, however has not been formally released since.

A short film based on a story by Edogawa Ranpo.

Sequel to Entotsu-machi no Poupelle. 
After losing his friend Poupelle, young Lubicchi wanders into a mysterious realm where a clock in a tower is frozen at 11:59. To return home, he must restart it – and find the courage to believe again. 

(Source: Berlin International Film Festival)

After an unidentified plant from outer space invasion, Rita finds herself trapped in a time loop, forced to relive the same day over and over again. With each loop, she learns. She fights. Her memories and experiences sharpen her skills, turning her into a formidable warrior. Yet, the endless cycle of death and solitude begins to wear her down. Then, she meets Keiji. "I've been repeating this day too," he says. Two lost souls, trapped in an endless war. Could their meeting change fate?
 
(Source: Warner Bros. Japan Anime)
 
Note: The film received an early premiere at the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 9, 2025.

In a futuristic world where humans and mermaids coexist, ChaO follows 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 break down his emotional barriers, an unexpected and touching romance begins to unfold. 
(Source: GKIDS)

The film will tackle the theme of global warming. 
 
The family-oriented adventure film takes place in a dystopian future and centers on a young boy named Takara. A girl from the present named Sara travels through time to the year 2100, and she and Takara must survive the world of the future where global warming has wreaked havoc on the planet. 
 
(Source: Anime News Network, edited)

The anime follows a woman named Romi and her partner as they depart from the devastated Earth and head for a new life on the planet Eden17. However, life has already been made extinct on the new world, so Romi finds herself eking out an even harsher life there. 
 
(Source: Anime News Network) 
 
Note: The anime has a film version with an alternative ending titled "Hi no Tori: Eden no Hana" that released in Japan on November 3rd, 2023.

The "second" season of Dongitsune: a series of animated commercials for Nissin’s line of Donbei Kitsune Udon instant noodles. 
Episodes: 
#1) どんぎつねシーズン2 秋祭 篇 / Dongitsune Season 2: Akimatsuri-hen [September 28, 2022]. 
#2) どんぎつねシーズン2 耳そこなんですか？ 篇 / Dongitsune Season 2: Mimi Soko Nandesu ka?-hen [October 31, 2022]. 
#3) 最強のどんぎつね現るッッ / Saikyou no Dongitsune Arawaru [November 21, 2022]. 
#4) 最強年越し 篇 / Saikyou Toshikoshi-hen [December 1, 2022]. 
#5) 正直すぎる尻尾 篇 / Shoujiki Sugiru Shippo-hen [February 15, 2023]. 
#6) カップよりうまい 篇 / Cup Yori Umai-hen [March 30, 2023]. 
#7) どん兵衛プロ出た 篇 / Donbei PRO Deta-hen [September 7, 2023]. 
#8) 耳は正直 2023 篇 / Mimi wa Shoujiki 2023-hen [November 15, 2023]. 
#9) 年越しアイドル 篇 / Toshikoshi Idol-hen [December 9, 2023]. 
#10) 片翼のどんぎつね 篇 / Henyoku no Dongitsune-hen [February 28, 2024]. 
 
Note: The “first” season was a series of live-action commercials starring Riho Yoshioka and Gen Hoshino.

Kentaro Miura's legendary series returns in Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition. 

The lone mercenary Guts travels a land where a century-old war is raging. His ferocity and skill in battle attract the attention of Griffith, the leader of a group of mercenaries called the Band of the Hawk. Guts becomes Griffith’s closest ally and confidant, but despite all their victories, Guts begins to question why he fights for another man’s dream of ruling his own kingdom. Unknown to Guts, Griffith’s unyielding ambition is about to bestow a horrible fate on them both. 
(Source: Crunchyroll, Viz Media) 
Note: This is a TV broadcast of the Golden Age film trilogy, with hundreds of new cuts including the "Bonfire of Dreams" scene and new music by Susumu Hirasawa and Shiro Sagisu.

Commercial for Aaliyah's self-titled album.

“Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” is the heartwarming and moving comedy drama of an unconventional family – a not-so-ordinary mother-and-daughter pair who live their lives to the fullest.
 
Easy-going, cheerful, passionate and always ready to eat something delicious, mother Nikuko falls hard for the bad guys. Her happy motto: “Ordinary is best of all!”
Naturally Nikuko’s loud and bold spirit embarrasses 11-year-old Kikuko, her daughter on the verge of puberty.
With nothing in common except living together on a boat at the port, a miracle occurs when their secret is revealed.

One summer vacation, Ruka meets two boys, "Umi" and "Sora," whose upbringing contains strange and wonderful secrets. Drawn to their beautiful swimming, almost more like flying, Ruka and the adults who know them are intertwined in a complex mesh... 
Meanwhile, an unexplained anomaly is occurring all over the world: fish are disappearing. Thus begins a marine adventure of boys and girls to captivate all the senses!

In Japan's economic bubble years during the 1980s, a long-serving furniture-style television set made in the 1960s is abandoned at a junkyard. It attempts to escape from its new surroundings. 
 
Background: 
A theatrically-released short film from production company ROBOT, makers of La Maison en Petits Cubes which won the Best Animated Short Film category at the 2009 Academy Awards. Winner of an Excellence Award in the animation division of the 2013 Japan Media Arts Festival.

Angelino is just one of thousands of deadbeats living in Dark Meat City. But an otherwise unremarkable scooter accident caused by a beautiful, mysterious stranger is about to transform his life... into a waking nightmare! He starts seeing monstrous forms prowling around all over the city... Is Angelino losing his mind, or could an alien invasion really be happening this quietly...?

A short anime about a guy living in his own world.

The story is set in a town surrounded by a wall that stands 4,000 meters (about 2.5 miles) tall. Because the town is full of chimneys, the air is always full of smoke. No one in the town knows what the sky looks like. On one night of the town's Halloween festival, a deliveryman accidentally drops the heart he is supposed to deliver. He cannot find the heart in the smoke and gives up. The heart continues to beat where it fell in the town of chimneys. 

(Source: Anime News Network)

Anime shorts created by Studio 4℃ as a collaboration with the Japan Kanji Aptitude Test.

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: YouTube)

The story centers around Chizuru, who moved from Yamaguchi to Tokyo, and cannot keep up with the pace of her studies. Losing sight of her dream because of discouraging marks in practice exams, she talks to her former classmate Shōta, and slowly begins changing the way she studies.


 
(Source: Anime News Network)

The anime will be a "surreal comedy" that emphasizes Gunma prefecture's self-sufficiency in ingredients for sukiyaki. The story centers around the titular Sukiyaki Force, created by Professor Warishita, who fight against the forces of Kiraida, who have come to Gunma and threaten to destroy the world.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Set in the future. Humans are known as the Pure Race. And there's a second group, the Nano Race -- they have nano-machines in their DNA, and special abilities. Pure humans discriminate against the Nano people, and have control over them. 
 
Beck is a 14-year-old Nano boy. He's already a legendary bounty hunter. Beck has the power to turn into the red ash of the title. There's an expensive medical procedure for Nano-to-Pure conversion, and Beck wants it. 
 
One day, Beck and Tyger encounter a mysterious girl Call. Call pretends to be Nano but is actually Pure, and she is being pursued by a duo called Safari and Stripe. The adventure unfolds in various parallel worlds. 
 
(Source: STUDIO 4℃) 
 
Note: Part of the 2017 Anime Tamago Projects.

Due to the destruction of nature, the disruption of ecosystem, and also massive wars using nuclear bombs and biological weapons since 20 centuries, the earth fell into ruins. The ground was collapsed and polluted, and many kinds of plants and animals became extinct. The earth encountered the 6th mass extinction: The Big Six. During the time, humans built the aero police to save endangered species. In this isolated city in the sky, various animals evolved over the years through genetically modified mating. As a result, they started walking on two legs and acquired language. Today, they have built a civilization and lead peaceful lives. No one thinks of the outside, the terrestrial world any more――
One day, kids on the aero police find an unknown seed from the outside. And their adventure in the unseen terrestrial world starts! ――Without knowing that once they go down to the ground, they will never be able to come back…

 
(Source: STUDIO 4℃)
 
 
Note: UTOPA is one of four Anime Tamago 2016 young animator training projects.

In the future, utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. 
 
This utopia isn't perfect, 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 member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.
 
(Source: VIZ Media)

Two siblings are running away from demons which attacked their village. Just when they are cornered, a mysterious female fighter appears and slays the demons. This female fighter turns out to be a Slayer, a demon that fights other demons and is part of a village of Slayers.

Studio 4°C