Synopsis

Konigiri-kun is a lively rice ball boy with a triangle body and sesame seed hair. Today is the day of the costume parade. Konigiri-kun visits the store of his friend Kerokke the Croquette. He is worrying what costume to wear... Three lunchbox floats will be in the parade! Everyone starts to get ready. What's this? Little Quail Egg has been squeezed and squeezed by everyone else and has popped out. ‘I don't have a costume!’, cries Quail Egg. Konigiri-kun and Kerokke try to help, but...

Mari Miyazawa

Mari Miyazawa graduated from the Graduate School at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2014. She is a boxed lunch artist and an animation film director. She began to make  animations with her original character from a boxed lunch in 2012, and Konigiri-kun, her animated film in which a rice ball acts as a hero, has been  broadcasted by Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) since 2014. She has received many awards at film festivals, such as the Grand Prix for preschool children at Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2018.