{"id":117311,"date":"2025-03-27T03:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=117311"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:15:33","slug":"look-back-directors-new-anime-short-highlights-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/27\/look-back-directors-new-anime-short-highlights-fukushima\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Back Director&#8217;s New Anime Short Highlights Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The YouTube channel for Fukushima Prefecture has released a promotional anime directed by<em> Look Back<\/em> and<em> Flip Flappers<\/em>&#8216; <strong>Kiyotaka Oshiyama<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The tender short animation, titled<em> Aka no <span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Kioku<\/span><\/em>, follows an artist and depicts various moments of her life. It is part of the Fukushima Map Tomo no Kai project, which seeks to promote the charm of Fukushima to more people. Fukushima Map is a general interest magazine centered on the prefecture.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010\u62bc\u5c71\u6e05\u9ad8\u76e3\u7763 \u6700\u65b0\u4f5c\u3011\u300e\u8d64\u306e\u30ad\u30f2\u30af\u300f\u3000 \uff5c\u3000\u300c\u3075\u304f\u3057\u307e\u307e\u3063\u3077\u300d\u30d6\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9\u30e0\u30fc\u30d3\u30fc\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAsy0QkeTpw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Aside from directing, Oshiyama, who is a Fukushima native, also handled the script, character designs, animation, and background art for the promotional short. The animation production studio is his <strong>Studio Durian<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Recently, it was announced that Oshiyama would be the character designer for the upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/trigun-stargaze-coming-in-2026-with-new-staff-teaser-visual-released\/\"><em>Trigun<\/em>\u00a0<em>Stargaze<\/em><\/a>, after previously being involved with the preceding <em>Trigun Stampede <\/em>series as\u00a0special effects designer for\u00a0<em>Trigun Stampede<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em><strong>Update:<\/strong> Expanded the second paragraph and removed the Shishigari paragraph.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Fukushima Prefecture YouTube channel (via <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/617599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comic Natalie<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YouTube channel for Fukushima Prefecture has released a promotional anime directed by Look Back and Flip Flappers&#8216; Kiyotaka Oshiyama. The tender short animation, titled Aka no Kioku, follows an artist and depicts various moments of her life. It is part of the Fukushima Map Tomo no Kai project, which seeks to promote the charm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":117315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[14,8402,8403],"class_list":["post-117311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-look-back","tag-studio-durian"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aka-no-Kioku-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-uw7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123330,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117311\/revisions\/123330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}