Ani*Kuri15 Explained


Ja Kanji:	アニ＊クリ15
Ja Romaji:	Ani*Kuri15
Genre:	Adventure Music video Short subject

Type:	tv series
Director:	Shinji Kimura, Yasufumi Soejima, Osamu Kobayashi, Shōjirō Nishimi, Mamoru Oshii, Kazuto Nakazawa, Ranji Murata, Tatsuya Yabuta, Atsushi Takeuchi, Tobira Oda, Yasuyuki Shimizu, Makoto Shinkai, Mahiro Maeda, Michael Arias, Shōji Kawamori, and Satoshi Kon
Studio:	Studio 4°C, Gainax, Gonzo, Madhouse, Production I.G
Network:	NHK
First:	2007
Last:	2008
Runtime:	1 minute each
Episodes:	15

is a series of fifteen 1-minute animated shorts, broadcast by NHK between May 2007 and 2008. Intended as companion pieces to the Ani*Kuri program and as filler between regularly scheduled programs, the shorts were broadcast in three seasons of 5 episodes.^[1] Each short was directed by a different director and the episodes were collected and uploaded to the official Ani*Kuri15 website in 2008.^[2]

Episodes

Season 1

"Attack of Higashimachi 2nd Borough" (Shinji Kimura: Studio 4°C) - Three aliens come to a cardboard Earth to invade.
(Akemi Hayashi: Gainax) - A sad young girl recovers from a heartache.
(Yasufumi Soejima: Gonzo) - A groups of native warriors attack a giant kami in the shape of a bear. The kami sets one of the warriors on fire spiritually.
"Sancha (The Aromatic Tea) Blues" (Osamu Kobayashi: Madhouse) - An avaricious record-store owner watches greedily as patrons look through his records.
(Shōjirō Nishimi: Studio 4°C) - Hiroshi tries to read his manga but a small robot is shooting pellets to distract him so the robot can escape.

Season 2

"Project Mermaid" (Mamoru Oshii: Production I.G) - A fish turns into a mermaid who swims out into post-apocalyptic city.
"Yurururu ~Nichijou Hen~" (Kazuto Nakazawa: Studio 4°C) - An animator spends the whole day animating a 1-second clip of a giant fish in a city.
"Gyrosopter" (Ranji Murata and Tatsuya Yabuta: Gonzo) - A young gyrosopter pilot visits a pool of water and remembers a gyrosopter battle and the death of a friend on a watery planet.
"Wandaba Kiss" (Atsushi Takeuchi: Production I.G) - A young boy and his dog initiate a complex Rube Goldberg machine in order to steal a kiss from a young girl.
(Tobira Oda and Yasuyuki Shimizu: Studio 4°C) - A super hero comic book character and Tomoo's idol from Tobira Oda's manga, Danchi Tomoo. Who has his meal stolen by a cat after being attacked by a villain (his master's daughter). Then he imagine about his master (Paul) scaring the cats. Then he falls into a river, and chased by his sidekick (The Bear and The Crow) and drifts over a waterfall.

Season 3

(Makoto Shinkai: CoMix Wave Films) - The family cat (Chobi) has had his tail stepped on one too many times and dreams of revenge.
(Mahiro Maeda: Gonzo) - A magical girl and her doll must defeat an invading horde of air pirates.
"Okkakekko" (Michael Arias: Studio 4°C) - A group of children run across fields and play with a giant scary robot.
"Project Omega" (Shōji Kawamori: Satelight) - As an alien force hurtles toward NHK headquarters in Tokyo, the NHK building springs to life as an evangelion-transformer to battle the foe.
(Satoshi Kon: Madhouse) - A young girl gets up from bed and sleepily tries to awaken herself.

External links

Ani*Kuri program - Japanese Wikipedia article on the regularly scheduled program in which the Ani*Kuri15 shorts appeared.
Official website (Archived)

Notes and References

Web site: NHK Launches Ani-Kuri 15 . . 2009-01-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20081209030125/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-05-01/nhk-ani-kuri-15. 9 December 2008 . live.
Web site: Third Season of NHK's Ani-Kuri Shorts Streamed . Anime News Network . 2009-01-20.