A short anime adaptation of a story Yuichi Nakamaru has been writing himself for about 15 years. It tells the story of Kikkun, an extraterrestrial life form who comes from a distant planet with the goal of invading Earth. As the members of the Japan invasion team grow increasingly fond of how comfortable life in Japan is, they begin to forget their original mission and instead come to love Japan—and even decide to protect Japan, or rather, the Earth. Nakamaru himself voices the protagonist, Kikkun. This is a work packed with Nakamaru’s passion, as he has been involved in every stage of its creation. It airs every Wednesday on TOKYO MX during “Goji ni Muchuu!”, and the companion program “Kikkun no Choitashi!” is also broadcast every Thursday morning.

An anime packed with “relatable civil servant moments,” made for civil servants by civil servants. A short anime that takes a peek into the daily lives of the staff working at the ward office in the fictional Chitoku Town Village’s “Hodora Ward” Hodoyoku! Word Office is a short anime aimed at civil servants working in local governments and public institutions. This series reunites director Takeshi Onaka, who teamed up about 10 years ago on Neko to Mata, with voice actors Tasuku Hatanaka and Takuma Nagatsuka. Set in Hodora Ward Office, the comedy centers on rookie staff member Shinji (CV: Tasuku Hatanaka) and his senior colleague, the protective-cat Neko-yama-san (CV: Takuma Nagatsuka), with the banter built around “civil servant relatability” portrayed as a comedic dialogue-driven story (from Animate Times) (↓Featured article) https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1776676732 Available now on Jichitai Works.com https://com.jichitai.works/video/

A short anime produced for broadcast on the large vision display at JR Yano-guchi Station (202603~) Shikou, a cat who had a human brain transplanted into him at a certain facility. Sakugo, a stray cat he met after escaping from the facility. This is a slice-of-life short anime that captures a casual moment while Shikou, who dies if he stops thinking, and Sakugo, who thinks relatively little, are on the run from the facility.