This week's YouTube update features a wide range of short-form animation, from high-profile music videos to independent graduate works.
Brilliant Better and Fortissimo Bell serve as entries in the Irodorimidori franchise, focusing on Aliciana Og and Nazuna Ten respectively. Ohedo Julia-Night arrives as a celebratory music video by Mitchie M for Hatsune Miku’s 10th anniversary, while Wonderland to Hitsujinouta showcases Minakata Laboratory’s animation for Kenshi Yonezu’s second album track.
Independent and festival works are also represented. Scutes on my mind is a graduate project from Tokyo University of the Arts by director Megumi Ishitani, and Zettai 15-byou Animation! is an anthology piece produced for the Japan Animation Association's Into Animation 7 festival.
Rounding out the list are two character-driven shorts and a commercial spot. Oh Dear and PLAYGROUND explore poignant, personal narratives about family conflict and isolation, respectively. Finally, Yogen-sha Ikusei Gakuen: Fortune Tellers Academy provides an animated look at Square Enix’s mobile title of the same name.
