Toyota and Studio 4°C Announce Collaboration

Recently a trailer for a new short series by both Toyota and Studio 4°C, who are known for there work on such projects like The Animatrix and Berserk, was released online.  The new short series is entitled PES: Peace Eco Smile and will be about a group of aliens who come to earth and learn about family, love and other subject matter.  It looks to be a somewhat comedic series, but i’ll let you judge from the video posted online:

http://youtu.be/vacFhRyL_QA

This is a quote from the Anime New Network article about the series:

The comical shorts center around PES, a traveller from space, and NaSuBi, a mysterious life-form who is enamored by the charm of Earth. They immerse themselves in the Tokyo neighborhood of Kichijōji and learn about kindness to people, the value of loving, and the importance of the little happinesses in life. [1]

The series looks to be very well animated with an semi-abstract art style. Still, I looked at the video and saw that a lot of the clips looked the same, as in that they might be recycling clips in the short. Also, the series to me looks like it is just a large advert for Toyota. The trailer seems to revolve around the car raither than any sort of plot in my mind, which kind of pulled me out of it. The soundtrack was really good though, and if we leave aside the Toyota influence this might be a good series. only time till tell my friends so look out for this short in the near future!

~~Z-ComiX

LINKS:

[1]ANN Article: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-23/studio-4c-toyota-web-anime-trailer-streamed