[10] Góngora was one of the animators who temporarily moved to Tokyo; while there, he worked with director Masaaki Yuasa, who would later co-found Science SARU.
However, he remained in touch with Yuasa and his producer associate Eunyoung Choi, and following the foundation of Science SARU in 2013, joined the new company.
[4] A later directing assignment was the creation of the second opening credit sequence for Garo: Vanishing Line (2017–18), which Góngora also storyboarded and animated.
[22] In July 2021, Góngora was announced as the director of T0-B1, a short film segment of the animated anthology project Star Wars: Visions (2021).
The film centers on a droid who dreams of becoming a Jedi, and pays homage to the classic art style of Osamu Tezuka, the innovative manga creator, director, and artist who helped define the look of Japanese animation.
Upon joining the project, Góngora was presented with a unique opportunity: the ability to create, with "almost no limitation," a story within the Star Wars universe that could represent his visual and narrative interests.
Ultimately, Góngora settled on merging the visual style and sensibility of Japanese animation of the 1960s with the live-action feature film traditions of the 1970s, which the original Star Wars Trilogy represented.