Taiyo Kikaku

Romance

Music / 1 eps / 2021 / Novel

Music video for the song Taishou Roman by YOASOBI.

Metamon to!

ONA / 3 eps / 2022 / Game

Blue

Music / 1 eps / 2020 / Original

Music video for the song Gunjou by YOASOBI.

Gon, the Little Fox

Movie / 1 eps / Winter 2020 / Book

When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and makes amends for his own earlier mischief by secretly bringing small gifts to the boy every day. But Hyoju doesn't realize who is behind the anonymous gifts, and the two are headed for a heartbreaking climax. (Source: Official Site)

Hidari Pilot Film

ONA / 1 eps / Winter 2023 / Original

Pilot film released on the HIDORI official channel to garner interest for the Kickstarter of the upcoming Hidari stop-motion movie.

Levitating

Music / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

Japanese animated music video featuring the song "Levitating" by British singer Dua Lipa from the album Future Nostalgia.

Pukkulapottas and Hours in the Forest

Movie / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

This account summarizes what I experienced between spring and summer of that special year when all human and material activities came to a standstill. I had retreated to my highland forest lodging away from the city, and while I was pent up there avoiding human contact, I chanced upon evidence of mysterious creatures in my yard. So I set up a surveillance camera, which to my surprise captured images of miniature humanlike beings about 15 centimeters tall. I named them "Pukkulapottas" and followed their activities daily with my camera, but as spring turned to summer and people began moving about again, I lost my ability to see them. This experience has prompted me to ask the question whether all the truths in this world are confined to what our eyes can see. (Source: Official Site)

Norman the Snowman: The Northern Lights

Movie / 1 eps / 2013 / Original

As the first snow falls on a town in the northern country, a boy sneaks out of his house to board a northbound train with his friend “Norman the Snowman.” They are off to witness the beautiful wonders of nature that Norman had always talked about. (Source: JFF Plus)

Heart Beat (2023)

Music / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

Music video for the song Heart Beat by YOASOBI.

ABC Tenkiyohou

Special / 1 eps / 2016 / Original

A weather forecast background video that follows a teeny tiny old man as he embarks on a journey, wherever his feet and the wind take him. Using stop-motion photography on location, it is an experimental work that explores the coexistence of the sense of speed of location shooting with the precision of animation shooting. (Source: Official Site)

Moon of a Sleepless Night

Movie / 1 eps / 2015 / Original

A squirrel and a boy set out on a journey together to restore daylight. They must find and release the moon stuck high up on a tree somewhere far, far away. (Source: JFF Plus)

Harutsugeuo to Fuuraibou

TV Special / 1 eps / 2024 / Original

A little covetous breeze makes a pretty melody blowing in the wind. The story of a mysterious journey of tiny creatures intertwine through the hommono wilderness. (Source: Tecarat)

Taiyo Kikaku's 49th Anniversary Movie

ONA / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd., a commercial production company based in Tokyo, Japan, was founded on February 5th, 1968, and proudly celebrates its 49th anniversary with the release of a paper craft stop-motion animation short to celebrate this milestone. The sun-shaped corporate logo symbolizing the company’s name is beautifully animated in a white setting, depicting the whole process of filmmaking from pre-production to post-production. The film is crafted entirely out of paper by director Ayako Hiroki, a member of “TECARAT,” a division of TAIYO KIKAKU. (Source: Official Site)

Norman the Snowman: On a Night of Shooting Stars

Movie / 1 eps / Fall 2016 / Original

Tomorrow is the night of the shooting stars! A new chapter of “Norman the Snowman” begins as Norman and the Boy embark on another venture to see the star-filled sky. (Source: JFF Plus)

On-chan no Kyou wa Donna Kanji?

TV / 12 eps / Spring 2021 / Original

On-chan no Kyou wa Donna Kanji? selects kanji related to Hokkaido that are compulsory for elementary school students in the lower grades, and aims to help with local education. On-chan, a popular mascot character of Hokkaido Television Broadcasting (HTB) that is loved by all generations, takes a single kanji character as a theme and freely imagines its meaning and shape, and performs a cute dance according to the stroke order. (Source: Taiyo Kikaku, translated)

Kanjigram

ONA / 45 eps / 2017 / Original

A video work inspired by the "meaning, form and origin" of kanji, reinterpreted and archived using the technique of stop-motion animation. A project that began with the realization that it is the "likeness" drawn out by the imagination that is the essence of kanji. (Source: TECARAT's Official Site)

Oto no Niwa

Music / 1 eps / 2021 / Original

Music video for the song Oto no Niwa by Fujifabric that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Expressions

Music / 1 eps / 2023 / Original

Music video for the song Expressions by Mandy.