{"id":36905,"date":"2026-07-16T02:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/mappas-contrail-label-produces-brand-movie-for-tech-company-namics\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:53:03","slug":"mappas-contrail-label-produces-brand-movie-for-tech-company-namics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/mappas-contrail-label-produces-brand-movie-for-tech-company-namics\/","title":{"rendered":"MAPPA&#8217;s Contrail Label Produces Brand Movie for Tech Company NAMICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Niigata-headquartered tech company NAMICS, which develops and manufactures electrochemical materials, has released an animated brand movie produced by <strong>CONTRAIL<\/strong>, the animation planning and production studio-turned-<strong>MAPPA<\/strong> brand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The <em>Sono Kagaku wa, Subete ni Ai o Tsunagu<\/em> short animation, which follows a man and his robot companion, was storyboarded and directed by <strong>Masatsugu Nagasoe<\/strong>, who also created the original character designs. Other staff include <strong>Tatsuo Ryuno<\/strong> (<em>Showa Monogatari<\/em>) as character designer, <strong>Yuji Kaneko<\/strong> (<em>Tengoku-Daimkayo<\/em>,<em> L\u2019\u00e9toile de Paris en Fleur<\/em>) as background art director, and MAPPA president <strong>Manabu Otsuka<\/strong> as executive producer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>Sono Kagaku wa, Subete ni Ai o Tsunagu <\/em>is the latest CONTRAIL-produced short animation to have come out this year, after the <em>Watashi no Obaa-chan-hen\u00a0<\/em>commercial for miso company Marukome and the <em>Fukufuku no Chizu\u00a0<\/em>promotional anime for Fukushima Prefecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">CONTRAIL was created in 2019 to produce full-length movies directed by <em>In This Corner of the World<\/em>\/<em>Black Lagoon<\/em>\u2018s\u00a0<strong>Sunao Katabuchi<\/strong>, with its first listed credit being\u00a0production assistance for 2019\u2019s <em>In This Corner (And Other Corners) Of The World<\/em>, the extended version of Katabuchi\u2019s MAPPA-produced <em>In This Corner Of The World\u00a0<\/em>film. In February of this year, it was reported that it would be absorbed by MAPPA; CONTRAIL was previously MAPPA\u2019s affiliated company with Otsuka as its representative director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">CONTRAIL is currently involved with <em>The Mourning Children: Nagiko and The Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black<\/em>, a new Katabuchi-directed historical film set in Heian era Kyoto, a time when \u201cthe city was shrouded in darkness due to repeated epidemics of plague.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> NAMICS Brand Movie YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niigata-headquartered tech company NAMICS, which develops and manufactures electrochemical materials, has released an animated brand movie produced by CONTRAIL, the animation planning and production studio-turned-MAPPA brand. The Sono Kagaku wa, Subete ni Ai o Tsunagu short animation, which follows a man and his robot companion, was storyboarded and directed by Masatsugu Nagasoe, who also created 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