The official YouTube channel for "Marui no Anime," a joint project amomg Marui Group that owns various

fashion buildings across Japan, film company Toho, and CG anime production company Orange, has started

streaming a 160-second original short promotional anime "Soba he" (To be Near You).

Synopsis:

One rainy day, Osamu gets on his way back home. Then he finds out the umbrella that Sayu gave to him as

a present is missing. The umbrella transforms into a girl, and starts moving around the city that gets rained on.

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Short version

Main staff:

• Director: Toshimasa Ishii (Mirai assistant director) 
• Character designer: Ayako Hata (Mirai animation director) 
• Concept art: Yoshihiro Nagazuna (Moom art director) 
• Music: Kensuke Ushio (A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird) 
• Producer: Katsuhiro Takei (Land of the Lustrous producer)/Kiyotaka Waki (Land of the Lustrous line producer) 
• Production: Orange (Land of the Lustrous)

• Voice: Haruka Fukuhara (Himari Arisugawa/Cure Custard in Kirakira PreCure a la Mode)

【オリジナルショートアニメーション『そばへ』】公開しました！監督は「未来のミライ」の助監督を務めた石井俊匡氏。女優・声優と活躍中の福原遥さんが本作の声を担当。ある雨の日の出来事を美しい映像と音楽で表現しています。
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— マルイノアニメ (@marui_anime) 2019年3月7日

Source: "Marui no Anime" official website

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