©Maho Yoshida / Tokyo University of the Arts

16th Animation Division Jury Selections

Recruit Rhapsody

Animated short film

YOSHIDA Maho [Japan]

Outline

This short animation is about post-university job hunt ing. A ver y ordinar y col lege student finds that her friends have recently begun to behave strangely; it turns out they are in the throes of “job-hunt fever.” Without ever figuring out what it is really all about, the protagonist finds herself, too, sucked into the vortex of job recruitment Japanesestyle.