Michi and her family have just moved into the Happiness House, a huge tree with all sorts of little buildings and houses built on and inside of it. Upon exploring what is to be her new bedroom, Michi finds an odd nut-like object. Before long, a strange creature, Nanami-chan, hatches out of it. The two become fast friends. Together, Michi and Nanami-chan learn all kind of new things, and everyday they meet more eccentric residents of the Happiness House.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Based on a children's picture book of the same name. A Christmas tale about a bird who was raised by tree after it was abandoned. The tree was then cut down for people in the city to use for Christmas celebrations. The bird desperately is trying to find its adoptive tree mother with the help of Jeremy, a penniless orphan, who heard her story so they go and search every tree being used in town. The search in the cold takes a toll on Jeremy until Santa Claus appears, but is it really him?
Trilogy about clouds, that is, an omnibus movie consisting of three different stories of clouds. It is based on a charcoal drawing. The clouds without the fixed form are the worlds which surround us.
#1: "Breathing Cloud" 3min 10sec
People’s body and soul transform into big a cloud, and are mixed with erotic shapes.
#2: "Looking At A Cloud." 5min 45sec
Something happens at the junior high school. When a boy starts to draw a cloud, that drawing begin to move and eat the students...
#3: "From The Cloud" 3min 50sec
A funny little story about people living on the soft cloud. A look at their daily life, in the morning, they listen to the bell and begin to go down the sky.
A long time ago, an Indian princess dreamed of a golden deer singing in a beautiful voice. Seeing the king's treat, a boy sets a trap in the mountain. But when he sees what the trapped deer has done for his friends, he decides to let the deer go.
The 24th Tokyo Educational Film Contest Silver Prize
(Source: Gakken)
The story of the Greek Icarus who wanted to escape the island by creating a pair of wings. Icarus, so enamored with the success of his wings, rose higher and higher toward the sun. Unfortunately, this results in the glue of the wings melting under the sun's heat.
Known in Japan as Jagainu-kun, Dogtato is the heartwarming tale of a dog that`s really a potato...or a potato that`s really a dog. Or something. (Jagaimo = potato, inu = dog, thus the name Jagainu/Dogtato.) Dogtato`s world is full of his lovable half-veggie, half-animal friends who are always getting into wacky hijinks and misadventures.
(Source: AniDB)
Spring, the fox is in the middle of a party. Workers' family of raccoon dogs reveal their field work during the hot summer and harvest autumn. A fox who stupidly hunts the Raccoon dumplings carrying the harvest with perspiration, before the raccoon dog wears it, takes away the food of the rabbit. A cold winter comes. The Raccoon family is having a good time around the hearth, but the fox is troubled with food and wandering in the snow. The fox intends a collective battle, raises a fire from the fire, causes a fire, and tries to rob the storage of the raccoon warehouse. A raccoon dog that turns into a truck and turns a fox that escaped a storage, turns it into a rainbow and chases it. The fight between the fox and the raccoon dog begins with a transformation. The family supports the raccoon guns that are struggling as one wing, and finally fights the fox.
(Source: Japanese Animated Film Classics)
Prologue episode. The first half features main characters in their chibi forms introducing each other and explaining the premise of the show. The second half features footage of seiyuus working, talking about the show and doing some funny stuff.
The show was about historical events through a character who was not aware of "what happened on this day in history".
(Source: Wikipedia)
A devil-girl with the face of an angel and a heart of gold, blond Betty falls in love with an earthbound gangster, Danpei Kimogawa, when they meet in a rainstorm. They end up living together in a Tokyo highrise apartment, though Danpei has trouble coping with his new witch and demon in-laws dropping in at inopportune moments. Betty has actually been sent to the human world on a mission to defeat the demon Lutan. While Betty continues her task, her skeletal grandmother sends nubile nymphs to tempt Danpei and see if he is suitable husband material.
(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
The 3rd arc of the Chiyotarou Kodomo Gekijou program that aired on TBS. Every episode is a different Brothers Grimm fairy tale told with shadow puppet animation.
Three kids living in the Watermill Village were planning a picnic in the mountains. Of course Pico, a young hamster kid wanted to go to the mountain peak with her friends Tocho and Fufu. The three of them fall in a hidden lake beneath the mountains and discovered a giant fish named Aesop floating. The knew that the fish wanted to fly again, in order to do that, they must collect mystical scales all across the world. Because of this, they start their search for the mystical scales in order for Aesop's dream to come true.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Long ago, in the western regions of Gamma, the land split into two major factions: mages and sorcerers. Young Nasreddin and Louis grew up under the care of their grandfather Tokrak.
One day, the Sand Demon King's forces attacked Nasreddin's home city, the fire continent, and Tokrak lost both hands in the process. From then on, Nasreddin made many companions and embarked on a journey to find the Jade Dragon Ring and save the western regions.
(Source: Bilibili, translated)