Watch Some Genius!

This here be a music video for Zero, the second single by Japanese MySpace breakout singer-songwriter Tamurapan. Why the disaster interest? The video features an avalanche of eye-catch animation from anime anthology sequel: Genius Party Beyond. This second Genius Party features work by Mahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa, Shinya Ohira and previous post favourite Tatsuyuki Tanaka.

You can follow the name links for more info on the first three directors detailed, but word on Shinya Ohira is a little harder to come by. Instead of reading a dry credits heavy wiki page that doesn't exist, why not check out this excellent animation reel?

Big thanks to S, who linked me up music in the Tatsuyuki Tanaka post comments.

Watch Tatsuyuki Tanaka!

Rooting around the interwebs, I found myself a couple of Tatsuyuki Tanaka shorts. Tanaka, you may know as the author of the rather splendid artbook Cannabis Works. Other than that his CV is very hard to get a grip on. He's done storyboard work for Studio 4 °C, was a key animator on Akira, and has a short in the compilation sequel Genius Party Beyond. Tanaka's work tends to feature exceptionally well observed slouch frames moored in a steam-machine clutterscapes AND BEYOND! Misleading pat generalisation wise, I'd go Katsuhiro Otomo meets Paul Pope. It's all the clean lines.

Anyway, the shorts:

First a Nike advert, featuring an animeheroic LeBron James.

Lastly, an Utada Hikaru music video excerpt.

Here, have the Genius Party Beyond trailer too!