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November 13, 2004 TV Episode Fûjin Monogatari

English titles: Can Kicking, Kick the Can

Series titles: Windy Tales, 風人物語

Studio
Tôhoku Shinsha, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Sky PerfecTV!, Culture Publishers, Windy-Tales Project
Animation studio
Production I.G

Synopsis

After attending their cram school, a group of elementary school kids goes over a fence into a high-rise construction area to play kick-the-can. "I found you, Tsubasa!" An elementary school boy named Tsubasa rushes in like a hare toward the can, but as the child who is "it" cuts the air with his hand, a big tornado emerges along the ground and embraces Tsubasa. Nao, who happens to be passing by, is shocked to see the kids taking to the air as if there was no gravity. "Are these kids... using the wind?" The next day, she goes back to the place with Ryoko, who got interested in the story, and secretly waits to see what would happen.

Characters

Nao Ueshima, Miki, Jun, Ryoko Yoshino, Taiki, Nurse, Yukio, Kozaburo (Kouzaburo), Principal, School Nurse, Atsuko, Nao's Father, Jun's Mother, Nao's Mother, Kaito, Satozumi, Tsubasa, Teachers

Credits

Directing

Director
Itsuro Kawasaki
Supervising Director
Mamoru Oshii

Writing

Writer
Hiroaki Jinno

Animation

Animator
Yasutaka Kubota (Animation Director)

Voices

Voice
Kaori Nazuka (Nao Ueshima), Satomi Hamamura (Miki), Miyu Irino (Jun), Ai Iwamura (Ryoko Yoshino), Oki Sugiyama Hiroshi Sugiyama (Taiki), Risa Mizuno (Nurse, Yukio), Masanori Takeda (Kozaburo [Kouzaburo], Principal), Azu (School Nurse), Arisa Ogasawara (Atsuko), Mitsuaki Hoshino (Nao's Father), Tomoko Naka (Jun's Mother), Yoshiko Okamoto (Nao's Mother), Ai Orikasa (Kaito), Motoko Kumai (Satozumi), Yuriko Fuchizaki (Tsubasa), Shigenori Sôya (Teacher A)

Music

Music
Kenji Kawai

Editing

Editor
Junichi Uematsu

Crew

Original Concept
Minami Otori
Character Designer
Masatsugu Arakawa
Art Director
Shichiro Kobayashi
Color Supervisor
Idumi Hirose
Key Animation Supervisor
Nobutoshi Ogura
Director of Photography
Jun Yanai
Sound Director
Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Music
Kenji Kawai
Opening Theme "Kaze no Uta" (Poem of the Wind) by
YuU
Ending Theme "Yuuhi no Iro dake" (Only the Color of the Setting Sun) by
Windy-S

Production notes

Nao, an eighth-grader, is one of the only two members of a Digital Camera Club, where she also serves as the manager. It's a mystery that she shoots nothing else but the skies and clouds. One day, she finds a cat on a rooftop where she usually shoots her camera. It's a cat that knows how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Shocked to find a strange animal, Nao loses her footing and falls off from the rooftop.

Miki is the other member of the club, and also Nao's best friend. Mr. Taiki is the teacher who's taught the cat how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Ryoko is a girl who has a huge crush on Mr. Taiki. And there's Jun, who helps Nao and Miki look for a cat that can fly. Then, there's Yukio, who is the widow of Mr. Taiki's deceased brother.

On the outskirts of this big city, a town off the "Wind Handlers," has been formed - and a mysterious Wind Festival is about to begin...