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17th Animation Division New Face Award

YOKOSOBOKUDESU Selection

Animated short film

HIMEDA Manabu [Japan]

Outline

A work consisting of five songs from the second and third episodes of the YOKOSOBOKUDESU animation series in which surreal characters drawn in pop colors sing and dance to humorous music. It contains Barber’s Day, a song about going for a long-overdue haircut, Na Ni Nu Ne No no in which the Japanese syllable “Nu” of the same syllabic line begins to dance, Funny Faces for Our Pocket in which “Potenshi” (abbreviation of the Japanese “Pocketto Tenshi” or pocket angel) a fictitious angel living in a pocket sings “I don’t know, I don’t know”, Won’t you dance in the Tacostume? about the number of feet found on squids, octopuses and people, and the song Car Tag about a family riding in a car driven at blistering speed.

Reason for Award

A work consisting of five songs from the second and third episodes of the YOKOSOBOKUDESU animation series in which surreal characters drawn in pop colors sing and dance to humorous music. It contains Barber’s Day, a song about going for a long-overdue haircut, Na Ni Nu Ne No no in which the Japanese syllable “Nu” of the same syllabic line begins to dance, Funny Faces for Our Pocket in which “Potenshi” (abbreviation of the Japanese “Pocketto Tenshi” or pocket angel) a fictitious angel living in a pocket sings “I don’t know, I don’t know”, Won’t you dance in the Tacostume? about the number of feet found on squids, octopuses and people, and the song Car Tag about a family riding in a car driven at blistering speed.