I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy... I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal.
Watch the official Maternal Awakening 2022 trailer in HD below.
Mami Kawaguchi as Heroine / Baby (voice)
Kohei Iseki as God (voice)
Mayuko Suzuki as Job hunting friend (voice)
Shiika Okada as Cram school teacher / Boss (voice)
Kanna Nazuka as High school girl (voice)
Kazune Okada as Handsome monster (voice)
Chika Masuda as Friend A (voice)
Mirei Sumiyoshi as Friend B (voice)
Mizuki Okada as Friend C (voice)
Fuka Susuki as Sex chromosome XX (voice)
Takumi Tsubata as Sex chromosome XY (voice)
Mitsuko Okamoto Producer
Yusuke Miyoshi Assistant Sound Editor
Tsutomu Asakura Sound Mixer
Shiika Okada Director
Shiika Okada Editor
Shiika Okada Animation
Shiika Okada Script
Samayu Kuroyanagi Music
Kohei Iseki Sound Designer
Junichiro Endo Sound Assistant
Jānī to the bosei no mezame Trailer
Journey to the bosei no mezame Trailer
Croatia 08 June 2022
Japan 08 March 2021
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01 May 2022
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07 May 2022
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12 October 2022
A radio show by Count Slashula at 'Slash FM', on a Halloween Night, will be presenting and warning viewers about the creepy stories they are about to watch, involving death, blood and some laughs.
24 October 2022
A theater actor with crippling body image insecurities must face his greatest fears when he is asked to perform nude on stage in his dream role.
10 October 2022
A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.
10 September 2022
A ball of light enters and exits a house, and other front porch phenomena.
02 December 2022
He is a sensitive boy who represses his true personality. After experiencing traumatic experiences, our protagonist begins to open to the world on a journey that made him the person who is.
12 August 2022
A mysterious protagonist is on a quest worth spending 150 years playing chess to unlock, and Sarajevo, now called Neosarayevo, is under the control of a sinister Cyberdyne-esque corporation - Sodyn.
01 September 2022
Mauve is the color palette Monet used to represent his wife Camille Doncieux on her deathbed. It's also the color palette of suffering and complex trauma; of visible and invisible bruises, from the female gaze.
01 October 2022
Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making.
24 June 2022
Two sisters seek a stolen treasure in exchange for an antidote after one is poisoned by their own father.
Have you watched Maternal Awakening yet? What did you think about it?
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