押井守担任监督的这部新动画作品叫《Sand Whale and Me》（沙鲸与我），作品采用动画真人混合 CG 风格制作。动画发生在未来世界，一个女伞兵被困在沙漠中，只带了一点点水和食物求生的故事，这部动画 25 分钟由 5 部短片内容构成。动画监督押井守，CG 监督佐藤敦纪，音乐川井宪次，动画制作 Production I.G。

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace, and stumbles into the young audiotypist after apparently having trouble with an ill-fitting shoe over her cast. After helping her back to her feet, Kazuko follows Tamaki back to her apartment, the two of them barely exchanging words. Once in Tamaki's room, Kazuko is dispatched on an errand to fetch some beer... Their game begins..

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.

When Yura's family moves from Tokyo to the countryside, he enters a Christian school, a religion he knows nothing about. Yura struggles to understand the school structure and student behavior when a miniature Jesus enters his life.