The official Japan Animator Expo website began streaming the full third short titled ME!ME!ME! ft. daoko by Teddyloid on Friday. Animator Expo are the project of weekly anime shorts from Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara and the media company Dwango. The music video features the musician Teddyloid (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) and rapper daoko.
The official website also gives a brief description of the story: “You are attacked and ravished by many girls.”
The short features the voice talent of Ranma ½ and Cowboy Bebop co-stars Kouichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara, and Dan Kanemitsu translated the short on behalf of Khara.
The rest of the staff includes:
- Director: Hibiki Yoshizaki
- Animation Production: Studio Khara
- Planning, Original Work, Storyboard, Technical Director: Hibiki Yoshizaki
- Music: “ME!ME!ME! feat.daoko” by Teddyloid
- Character Design, Animation Director: Shuichi Iseki
- 3DCGI: sankaku
- Color Design, Color Coordination Inspection: Yuichi Furuichi (Copihan)
- Art Director: Hiroshi Kato (Barakamon)
- Editor: Hibiki Yoshizaki
- Music Production: Rie Shimasue (King Records)
Hideaki Anno himself is serving as executive producer of the initiative with Dwango President Nobuo Kawakami, and he also designed the image character mascot “(Tor)-kun.” Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki created the title logo, and fellow Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki colored it.
One new short will stream every week for a planned total of 30 shorts, ranging from original projects and spinoffs to promotional videos and music videos. Each episode will be streamed for free via a dedicated iOS/Android app and on the web. There are no plans for a commercial release at this stage.
Source: ANN, official Japan Animator Expo website
