Saeko Suzuki

Short animation by Saeko Suzuki

Short animation by Saeko Suzuki

西暦2067年、人間が凶暴化する奇病「ヴァールシンドローム」が猛威を振るう銀河辺境の地で、唯一の対抗策であり、歌によってヴァールシンドロームを沈静化させることができる戦術音楽ユニット「ワルキューレ」が、星々をめぐってライブ活動を展開していた。そんな折、「空中騎士団」と呼ばれる風の王国の可変戦闘機部隊が活動をはじめ……。

Seeking to unlock the mystery of a strange stone statue that looks exactly like their Sergeant, the members of the Keroro Platoon find themselves engaged in a great adventure.

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Via the New York Times: "The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa's "No Life King" bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film's constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy trying to converse with his mother must compete with a home computer for her attention, it's not hard to see why the boy has retreated into his own computer-dominated world."

Via the New York Times: "The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa's "No Life King" bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film's constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy trying to converse with his mother must compete with a home computer for her attention, it's not hard to see why the boy has retreated into his own computer-dominated world."