About this season
Ani-Kuri 15 is a series of fifteen 1-minute shorts that aired on the Japanese TV station, NHK between May 2007 and 2008. Intended as companion pieces to the AniKuri program and as filler between regularly scheduled programs, the shorts were broadcast in three seasons of 5 episodes. Each short was directed by a different director and the episodes were collected and uploaded to the official AniKuri15 website in 2008.
Episodes (5)
1. Project_Mermaid
3.4Aired 6 August 2007 • 1 min
A fish turns into a mermaid who swims out into a post-apocalyptic city.
2. Yurururu - Ordinary Chapter
5.2Aired 6 August 2007 • 1 min
An animator spends the whole day animating a 1-second clip of a giant fish in a city.
3. Gyrocopter
4.2Aired 6 August 2007 • 1 min
A young gyrocopter pilot visits a pool of water and remembers a gyrocopter battle and the death of a friend on a watery planet.
4. Sport Captain Episode No.18: Assassin Descended from the Mountain Hunt!!
4.8Aired 6 August 2007 • 1 min
A superhero 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 imagines 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.
5. Wandaba Kiss
5.4Aired 6 August 2007 • 1 min
A young boy and his dog initiate a complex Rube Goldberg machine to steal a kiss from a young girl.