Interest Stacks

A pilot to a larger show, Yuasa Directed this very obviously if you watch it

You can see him experimenting further with the visuals of this film using more mixed media

Masaaki Yuasa’s first full length show brought to us by madbox. In the world of The Beast Claw creatures have lived alongside humans but have recently become able to be born half human due to mixing. We follow a beast hunter as he falls in love with one of the before mentioned half beasts.

He directed Segment 6 of this anthology movie called Happy Machine

Kaiba is a show that takes place in a sci fi world where memory is able to be extracted and put into any body. The story follows a man with amnesia, only remembering a single woman’s face as he travels around the galaxy.

The Tatami Galaxy is an adaptation of a book of the same name. It follows a collage student in Kyoto who was not happy with how his high school years went so he wants to join a club. Each episode follows a different path for which clubs and activities the main character does.

The Tatami Galaxy crew get together and tell short stories to each other. This is the last thing Yuasa directed at Madbox before forming his own company Science Saru.

The Night is Short Walk on Girl follows a girl as she wanders across Kyoto and gets into various little adventures. It is a adaptation of a book by the author of Tatami Galaxy and shares quite a few characters

Devilman Crybaby is an adaptation of the classic and influential manga “Devilman”. The story follows Akira Fudo, a high school student who is one day is told by his best friend Ryo Asuka that Demons are real and want to take over the world. After a little partying and murdering he is transformed into Devilman.

Ride Your Wave is a romance. A surfer girl in collage with big dreams who meets a fire fighter and hits it off.