Girls on the Run

''A woman engulfed in her inner world enjoys her strange love. We accompany her to a surreal space-time dominated by black, white, and red colour, and „auntie”. The secret of „zero” can possibly be deciphered only by cakes.'' by Fantoche.com

Madly in Love by Ikue Sugitomo

We watched this animation in the section of Japanese girls animation in the Bradford Animation festival. The whole section of these animation is focusing on the ambiguity of girls in contemporary Japanese indie animation and showing the difference between girls drawn by men and girls draw by women. There are a lot of weird and awkward contents like animating *ss and mental creepy drawings which make me feel uncomfortable. There are nearly no happy endings or hero types character which is unlike normal anime and perhaps most of the anime are create by men so I can see the huge difference in between. This is reflecting the social condition of Japan as well since gender is not equal and there are less females animators. It is clear that female in the females' sight is completely diverted to what male see and this programme has successfully helped to spread their inner thought and aesthetic. It is important to know the meanings behind when watching the animation but most of them are quite abstract and ambiguous. In the different aspect, the style and the use of colours are very nice which is very enjoyable to watch.