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11th Animator Expo Short Power Plant No.33 Streamed

Japan Animator Expo, the project of weekly anime shorts from Hideaki Anno's Studio Khara and the media company Dwango, began streaming the full 11th short film Power Plant No.33 on Friday.

Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve, Patema Inverted) directed and wrote the script, and Studio Rikka and Trigger are animated the short. Yūji Kaneko handled kaiju and mechanical design and Kengo Saitō designed the characters.

The previous ten shorts in the project include:

• "Otaro Maijo and Kazuya Tsurumaki's "The Dragon Dentist"
• Azuma Tani's "Hill Climb Girl," a music video titled "ME!ME!ME!" featuring the musician Teddyloid (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) and rapper daoko
• Akira Honma's "Carnage"
• Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichirō Itano's "Collection of Key Animation Films" from Mobile Suit Gundam
• Takeshi Honda and Mahiro Maeda's "20min Walk From Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed"
• Tadashi Hiramatsu and Khara's "until you come to me"
• Akemi Hayashi's "Tomorrow from there"
• Akira Amemiya's "Gridman: Boys Invent Great Hero"
• Takashi Horiuchi and Masahiro Emoto's "Yamadeloid"

Anno himself is serving as executive producer of the entire project initiative with Dwango President Nobuo Kawakami, and he also designed the image character mascot "(Tor)-kun." Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki created the title logo, and fellow Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki colored it. The shorts mostly feature the voice talent of Ranma ½ and Cowboy Bebop co-stars Kouichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara.