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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sale of their long-selling “Milk Caramel” brand, Morinaga released a special movie called “A Child Enshrouded in Constant Love” on June 1 on their official website. The anime was produced by Studio 4°C. The anime studio representing Japan has collaborated with Morinaga to support Japan’s “candy culture.”
The anime is about two-minutes long. Morinaga Milk Caramels have built up a hundred year history inherited from mother to child, and so they took the “eternally unchanging merit of caramel” as the theme. In the anime, a heartwarming story comes into being through a “strange experience” of the caramel traveling between a mother and her child. The aim was to create an emotionally moving work that conveyed to anyone the friendliness of one hundred years of unchanging affection.
Anime producers Studio 4°C are well known for such series as Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White and Berserk Golden Age Arc. Yoshiharu Ashino, director of The Adventures of Tweeny Witches, was appointed as animation director. Alongside him was a noteworthy formation of other staff, including CGI director Kousuke Kawamura, color designer Yuko Nojiri, artists Yusuke Yanagisawa and Hisako Akagi, and animators Mikine Kuwahara and Tatsumori Imoto.
A mysterious girl appears before a mother who’s running around doing housework whilst holding her young child. However, the mother cannot see her. Carrying a caramel, the mysterious girl darts out of the house. Surprised and in a daze, the mother follows the caramel and arrives at...? You’ll have to visit the official website to find out what happens next!
Morinaga Caramel:
http://www.morinaga.co.jp/caramel/ (Japanese)
Source:
http://animeanime.jp/article/2013/06/01/14251.html (Japanese)
Source article written by Yushi Makari
