Tsukumo

Written and directed by Shurei Morita (Tokyo Ghoul), this short tells the tale of a traveler who's confronted by spirits on a strange shrine during a crazy storm. This short is really beautiful with some pretty inventive scenarios and a great message on kindness and the need to help the unfortunate, even spirits (from what I got in my first viewing). Top it off with some great CG animation by Sunrise (who also animated all the shorts for Short Peace) that looks far superior than recent Sunrise properties (*cough* Valrave *cough*) and imaginative spirit designs with each spirit giving a unique look and charm. Possessions ... starts the compilation strong and steady and easily, a wonderful short that truly deserved the nomination for Best Short FIlm.... Too bad it didn't win squat.

Short Peace is a multimedia project composed of four short anime films produced by Sunrise and Shochiku, and a video game developed by Crispy's Inc. and Grasshopper Manufacture. The four films were released in Japanese theaters on July 20, 2013 and were screened in North America during April 2014. Sentai Filmworks have licensed the films for North America. The video game was released in January 2014 in Japan, April 2014 in Europe, and September 2014 in North America.

Possessions
Writing and Direction by Shuhei Morita |
Plot of the short film revolves around a lone traveler is confronted by unusual spirits in an abandoned shrine where he seeks ... shelter in the stormy night amidst a silent forest. The humility and the humbleness of an honest human heart are depicted vividly in this short film, despite the hardships. The artwork and animation belong to a bit of different category. The CGI Graphic animation and the special effects in this short anime film are praiseworthy.

Genre (s) – Comedy | A Happy Ending | Runtime – 24 minutes approximately (fractions excluded)

Rate of 10
Seen via english sub
Part 2 of the 5 part Short Peace package

Ahcha Gahcha I love that catchy little song!

Aside from the little song you got to love the c.p.u. animation. It is more digital then regular animation. A 3d outlook if you will. Another aspect of love is you never know what will happen.

Normally i don't like japanese audio... this time i loved it!

... However, one draw back is the intro is not quite related to this.

sincerely your reviewer,
snapler

would have appreciated this to be mini series. Something with more of those catchy songs and animation style. This anime certainly wasn't 'broken' (inside joke)

Sunrise tried with different art style, it actually worked well. Animation style was pretty close to old style gaming animation. This short story belongs to the movie Short peace, where it appears as the first short. In the MAL data base each short has their own page, so it might make the users confuse.

Story takes place in ancient Japan, where a traveler get lost in the forest due to heavy strom in the night. In search of shelter for the night, he ended up in a mysterious house. At first it appears to be normal, suddenly strange things starts to happen. It has been ... mentioned in the old stories, there are strange form of spirits which actually obtains it's form from usable materials after it gets abandoned. The man gets panic and tries to flee, but it's too late. Traveler locked in the house fated to meet the spirits of umbrellas, which are broken and ripped, which he helps to stitch up. Then he do the same with other materials like a Kimono dress. By the end he meet up with a garbage spirit, which leads him to the exit door of the house. After getting out of the house, he came to realise it was a repair shop before. The spirits show him gratitude by giving him gifts in return. That was such a heart warming story.
If you want to experience it

A traveler seeks refuge from a storm in an abandonded shrine and is surprised by different spirits. He sees that some things inside the shrine are damaged and starts repairing them. He gets greeted by more spirits and eventually finally opens a door causing a bunch of stuff to fall on him. All of the things that fell on him came to life and turned into a monster, the traveler closes his eyes and wakes up in the shrine. The storm was gone and the sun was up. He then left the shrine with some of the things he repaired, that seemed to be left ... for him to take.

I really liked this for how simple it was. It was pretty short I think they did a good job for how short it was. I liked all the animation in this, it was pretty good, and was really interesting. I just really liked the style of it I guess. I liked the sounds and stuff too.
Was directed by Shuhei Morita, who made Tokyo Ghoul. Pretty cool

Forgot to mention, for the low quality video I was able to find, it looked really good. I liked the scenery too when he stepped out of the shrine.