The film takes a simple idea—creating a picture using a simple thread—and transforms it into an engaging flow of animated images. From East Asian folklore, Okushita takes the symbol of the red string of fate. There are many variations of this ancient tale, but the main idea is that the gods tie men and women together who are destined as each other's soul mates together with a red thread.
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet,
regardless of time, place, or circumstance.
The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
-ancient Chinese belief
Akai Ito has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 赤い糸, Red Thread
Genres: Slice of Life , Drama , Romance
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2. Calligraffiti
Short animation directed by an illustrator and picture book writer Furukawa Taku.
Calligraffiti has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: カリグラフィティー, Carigraffiti
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A play on the ancient Chinese puzzle of tangram.
NOTE FOR MODS: we have not had any of this creator's work in the DB before. But he did win the grand prix prize (highest honor) for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_International_Cartoon_and_Animation_Festival in 2002 which is a well known big deal film festival (and we accept Korean anime so it's not like we're looking at a Bulgarian film festival). In addition he is an accredited art professor with a degree from an accredited art school who teaches animation amoungst other things. To me that qualifies him as a "professional animator" the DB guidelines require to have his work included. Granted it's only this piece and "Sekisou-tai" that I could find online so we're only getting 2 of his pieces anyway.
Laughing Moon has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 笑う月, Warau Tsuki
