Trash Studio anime

Whereabouts of Tomorrow: Ashita no Arika

ONA / 1 eps / Summer 2025 / Original

"Ever since that day...I lost hope for the future." In 2021, Asumi, a salesperson at Kobe Steel, was having a difficult time finding meaning in her job while she felt helpless in the face of the company's numerous issues. Just as Asumi was about to tell her boss that she wanted to quit, a mystical ray of light came out of a corporate history book and led her to Kobe in 1905. There she encountered visionary, high-spirited people from Kobe Steel's founding period. Torasuke was among them; he was a clumsy but enthusiastic young man from the Meiji era who dreamed big and believed in the potential of industrial development. Guided by the Kobelco Group's history, two persons from different eras set out on a journey across time, from its beginning to the present. They witness people get through tough times and continue to take on challenges with hope for a better future. After coming into contact with the founders' spirits, they each choose their own path for the future. (Source: Official site)

Mahoutsukai Haley no Speed Story

Movie / 1 eps / Fall 2010 / Unknown

A scientific animation and the second project of Anime Innovation Tokyo, THINK Corporation and Tokyo Metropolitan Government's investment initiative to sponsor animation works by independant animators or small studios What would be your guess of the world's fastest moving transport? Haley is a student at the school of wizardry, doing nothing but racing with his friends on flying broomsticks. One day, Haley's teacher unveils one of his latest inventions - magic goggles that measure the speed of moving objects, simply by wearing them. He has Haley and his friends use these goggles and compete against each other to decide who will measure the fastest speed of any surrounding animal. Peter, frustrated after losing against Haley, challenges him to another match and the two head toward the human world, taking with them an advanced magic broomstick their teacher had developed. Although this broomstick was incomplete, Haley and Peter succeed in flying around the human world to discover the fastest moving object. Now, what do you suppose this could be...?! (Source: AniDB)

Oyaji no, Imo no Kamisama.

CM / 1 eps / 2014 / Other

A man wanders into a liquor store and sees a familiar shouchuu glass. Memories of his childhood home, his father, and a certain shouchuu glass his father used to call 'a shrine to the potato god' comes flooding back. Commercial made for Satsuma Shiranami brand sweet potato shouchuu.

MaxValu Kyushu

CM / 1 eps / 2008 / Original

An animated commercial for the supermarket chain MaxValu Kyushu Co., Ltd., as indicated by the name, they are located in all of Kyushu except for Okinawa. This coincided with their reusable shopping bag campaign.

Encounter with Earth

Movie / 1 eps / 2011 / Unknown

A movie by National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) screened at planetariums.

Oyako wa Tsuzuku yo

ONA / 1 eps / 2017 / Original

Kao Japan is a chemical and cosmetics company. They have commissioned Yoshiharu Satou to create an animated short about parents and adult children to promote their strong deodorizing products.

Hirooka Asako

CM / 2 eps / 2015 / Original

Commercials explaining the founder of Daido Seimei (Daido Life), an insurance company in Japan. Hirooka Asako (1849-1919) was an affluent woman who through persistence was able to push for insurance requirements of small to medium business enterprises for their employees as coal miners who were at the most risk/vulnerable if a disaster/injury were to happen. She did this by facilitating 3 large business enterprise insurance companies to break off small chunks to form 1 new company where all three had shareholder value.

Kao Haru CMs

CM / 4 eps / 2018 / Original

Kao Japan is a chemical and cosmetics company. For their spring campaign to bring in the freshness and happiness of their customers, they have commissioned Yoshiharu Satou to create animated commercials.

Green Co-Op CMs

CM / 5 eps / 2017 / Original

Green Co-Op's commercials created by Yoshiharu Satou.

Mori no Kokoro-Koro

CM / 1 eps / 2005 / Original

An animated commercial for Aska Corporation Inc., an additive-free cosmetics and health food company. The commercial features their Kokoro-Koro mascot, a forest spirit, embodying the innocent heart of mankind.

Kyushu Love Milk Club

CM / 4 eps / 2006 / Original

Animated commercials for Kyushu Love Milk Club, a Kyushu raw milk sales agricultural cooperative federation, that connects small time dairy farmers into a collective to sell their region brand of milk.

The Story of Cassis and Arles

CM / 20 eps / 2007 / Original

Cassis is the only daughter of a bakery in the small town of Fran. Her daily routine is to deliver freshly baked bread to the people of the town every morning. One day, a blonde young man named Arles comes to Cassis's shop. She is gradually drawn to him for his refreshing and gentle gaze. However, there is a reason why the young man has come to this town. (Source: Official site, translated)

Francois CMs

CM / 10 eps / 2005 / Original

Animated commercials for the Japanese bread and confectionary business Francois.