Official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight, the 79th Cannes Film Festival The film We Are Aliens will be released in theaters in 2026. Co-starring: Ryota Bando × Amon Okayama Music by: Yaffle Two boys meet in a rural town in the Heisei era. Tsubasa struggles with being “ordinary,” while Kiyotaro is someone “special.” But an incident that occurs beyond the distortions of everyday life dramatically changes the relationship between the two——. Is this a story of their youth? Or a memory they want to erase? ▼Official Website https://nothingnew.film/wearealiens/ [Film Information] Title: We Are Aliens English Title: We are Aliens Release Date: Theatrical release in 2026 Planned, Written, and Directed by: Kohei Kadowaki Cast: Ryota Bando, Amon Okayama (co-starring) Music: Yaffle Copyright: ©NOTHING NEW, MIYU PRODUCTIONS Planning, Production, and Filmmaking: NOTHING NEW In cooperation with: MIYU PRODUCTIONS

In a way that embodies the world of the lyrics, the protagonist, Kaf, changes form one after another and travels through time, rediscovering the joy of writing a novel. In the dream scenes, the drawings are strongly hand-drawn, with lines as the main focus and little use of shading, whereas in the real scenes, footage of the actual sky is composited in, the use of lines is conversely restrained, and buildings and other elements are rendered more realistically. This creates a contrast in the mood of each sequence while also aligning the story’s themes with the themes of its visual expression.

A music video for a Vocaloid song by YOASOBI composer Ayase. The depiction of rain was created by filming, in a studio, the phenomenon of real water dripping down glass and compositing it into the video.

A music video set in the world of the manga BEASTARS. The first 89 seconds also serve as the ending sequence for the second season of the TV anime BEASTARS. The blue-world portion in the first half was colored frame by frame entirely with watercolor paints. By combining this blue segment with the red-world segment that begins in the second half, which is expressed digitally, the video presents two extremes within a single music video, contrasting the tenderness and happiness that have filled the past in the story behind this song with the cruel reality that is to come. For the production of this video, three-dimensional models of each character were created. Using these as references for the drawings made it possible to depict the BEASTARS characters, whose complex shapes are difficult to express through animation, with hand-drawn animation.