
Kankeri
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...
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...
