Dreaming of a Whale (Kujira o Yumemu)

Year listed: 2026

Published at the original source: 2026-05-01. This is the upload date, which may differ from the film’s release.

9 min · Japanese · Animation

In a ruined, empty world, a girl who lives completely alone writes down the poems that a radio broadcasts at the same hour every day. She travels in search of the person whose voice reads them, until one day the radio starts playing at an unexpected time. It is a quiet, lyrical road story about loneliness and following words across a deserted world.

Why we picked it

A Kyoto Seika University graduation anime by Shuzuku: in a ruined world, a lonely girl writes down the poems a radio reads each day, and goes looking for the voice.

Not curator-rated for children; full audiovisual content was not inspected.

Source: Shuzuku

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