[1][2] His plays are highly surrealistic, filled with bizarre characters and creatures, influenced by Juro Kara.
The design is often very meticulous and colorful, with strange, incongruous elements crammed into small spaces.
[3] Influenced by Marcel Duchamp's method of creating miniatures of his work and carrying them around with him, Tanino considers his sets and plays to be like fully formed pictures, arranging performers like parts of an installation or tableaux.
[4] His series of "Hakobune" (ark) plays were staged at his apartment and involved elaborate sets in spite of the cramped sizes.
[7] "The Town Where the Sun and Underwear are seen" (2009) was staged at Festival/Tokyo 2009 Autumn, while "Box in the Big Trunk" (2013), which combined the three Hakobune productions into one "set", was performed in Tokyo and Kyoto.