{"id":148066,"date":"2026-02-22T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=148066"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:05:36","slug":"a-graduation-anime-featuring-kafs-alpha-you-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/02\/22\/a-graduation-anime-featuring-kafs-alpha-you-has-been-released\/","title":{"rendered":"A Graduation Anime Featuring KAF&#8217;s &#8220;Alpha YOU&#8221; Has Been Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Animator <strong>Harumaki<\/strong> has released their graduation project, which takes the form of an <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/01\/25\/vocaloid-producer-harumakigohan-releases-doppelganger-anime-music-video\/\">animated music video<\/a> set to virtual singer <strong>KAF<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Alpha YOU&#8221; song.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Aside from handling the <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/02\/02\/anime-short-film-luca-debuts-on-youtube\/\">indie anime<\/a>&#8216;s direction, scenario, and storyboards, Harumaki was also involved in the layouts, key animation, in-between animation, finishing, and background art.<\/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=\"\u5352\u696d\u5236\u4f5c\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u3000\u3042\u308b\u3075\u3041YOU\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6U83yW_YBek?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\">The other names that help make up the small production team are<strong> Tasan<\/strong>, <strong>Via<\/strong>, <strong>Riichi<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sakugabooru.com\/post?tags=myoun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MYOUN<\/strong><\/a>. The latter was the character designer and animation director of the <em>Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26<\/em> anthology&#8217;s &#8220;Shikaku&#8221; short.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Harumaki has appeared in the credits of <em>Ganglion<\/em> (Episode 18 key animation),<em> Li&#8217;l Miss Vampire Can&#8217;t Suck Right<\/em> (Episode 11 key animation), and <em>OSHI NO KO<\/em> Season 3 (Episode 3 2nd key animation).<\/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> Harumaki YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animator Harumaki has released their graduation project, which takes the form of an animated music video set to virtual singer KAF&#8216;s &#8220;Alpha YOU&#8221; song. Aside from handling the indie anime&#8216;s direction, scenario, and storyboards, Harumaki was also involved in the layouts, key animation, in-between animation, finishing, and background art. The other names that help make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":148070,"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":[14,10569],"class_list":["post-148066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-kaf"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Harumaki-Alpha-YOU-graduation-anime-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-Cwa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148066"}],"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=148066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148072,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148066\/revisions\/148072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}