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Independently produced cel-animated film produced by U. Manabuken of Kyushu University, with the cooperation of Manabuken at the time and volunteers from the Animation Research Institute and others. Completed in May 1984 after about 2 years of production. Total number of drawings: approximately 2,000. The work is full of passion for depicting the action of beautiful girls and effects such as explosions and rock splitting, and is a tour de force in terms of drawing and backgrounds, as well as experimenting with filming techniques such as double exposure, transmitted and incidental light, etc. The story, however, is forced, or should not be considered in depth.The extras include some of the settings and moving images, some of the lost cuts, test and play videos, doodles, etc. As the extras, it was introduced in the Dec 83 issue of the animation-related magazine Fan Road

A girl who studies psychology begins to have symptoms of a mental disorder due to her overload of research work. She thinks all people around her are zombies, and her only goal is to find her boyfriend. When she is about to find him, a huge zombie appears...

A brutal, stylized crime short about a wounded thug driven by a mysterious inner voice to seek revenge, only to discover that violence demands a deadly price.

A young man finds himself being chased down by a monster in his nightmares.

After his greed lands him in the lair of the Vodník (a terrifying water spirit), a young man must learn to value his own humanity over his material desires.

A man is preparing to go out on a date, but he is hiding a dark secret...

Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.

Rigid suburban couple Barry and Susan find their taste buds (and manners) challenged when they attend a dinner hosted by an old friend who's been living overseas.

After her best friend leaves to Lunar University, Geo has to deal with his absence on Earth when carnival season arrives.

Der Rote Faden

A psycho cop has a habit for pulling over random women and taking them to an abandoned warehouse, where he tortures and kills them. He gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.

A Hamlet-inspired tale of two sisters running their late mother's business. When one sister has a run-in with her (presumed to be dead) mother, chaos ensues.

In a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.

Hora do Cálculo (Calculation Time)

Bethany and Sam are friends with a brewing romance that is long overdue. With the making of a student film together over Halloween, this romance becomes realised. However, with this new proximity to Sam, Bethany begins to peel away the layers of a potentially very troubled person.

Guided by a queer deity, a closeted man is forced to confront his parents as he tries to regain his lost sense of identity.

A man leaves his home, an abandoned metro station, with a Geiger counter in his hand. Equipped with a Hazmat suit and an incubator on his back, he travels through a cold, radioactive world in search of a mysterious object.

Julia experiences a confused world seemingly against her after receiving a pessimistic tarot reading, as her feelings inevitably differ from her thoughts. Which way to go?

Under the supervision of the tyrannous ruler Supremo, a fleet of aliens responsible for the creation of the universe conduct their daily work around the Milky Way. Among them is a curious alien called Melius, who dreams of leaving their weary job as a star polisher to explore distant planets. When the space probe ‘Voyager 1’ crashes into their ship, Melius sees their chance of escaping using the probe’s coordinates for planet Earth. What follows is an adventure full of extraordinary surprises and new friends, where our hero will be forced to choose between duty and love, their teachings and beliefs.

A boy who is kicked out of his post-apocalyptic camp is forced to try and find a new home, as well as, civilisation without being caught by the unknown beings that lie ahead.