Windy Tales (2004)
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Yasutaka Kubota — Animation Director
Episodes 6
Running Girl
When the club moderator urges Nao, "Why don't you send in your photos to a contest or something once in a while?" she usually puts off the idea by telling herself that she would if she could come up with a good photo. One day, a job request is made to the digital camera club. It is a request to take photos for a journal of Atsuko running. She's in the track and field club at school, and is considered the favourite in the coming regional track and field meet.
Read MoreAcorn Is a Flying Squirrel
On his way home from school, Jun rescues a flying squirrel fleeing from a flock of crows. Kept as a pet since it was a baby, the flying squirrel can't fly nor can it even find food for itself. Jun feels sorry and decides to keep it, naming it "Donguri" (Acorn).
Read MoreKick-the-Can
After attending their cram school, a group of elementary school kids go over a fence into a high-rise construction area to play "kick-the-can". 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 with Ryoko to investigate.
Read MoreCleaning With a Smell of Kiss
While taking part in the clean up of the digital camera clubroom, Nao, Miki and Jun finds a cardboard box on the top shelf. There is an old album in the box filled only with photos of clouds. Nao grins when Miki says, "Here is your ancestor." But her smile disappears when she opens the next page. It was a photo of a female student holding a baby in one arm and pressing the shutter of a small camera with the other hand. In order to return the album to the owner, the threesome, forgetting that they were cleaning the room, start their search with a list of club members as their only clue and the date "September 9, 1991" marked on the back of the album.
Read MoreLast Day on Earth
Nao’s dreams that she is walking across the surface of the Moon. Above her are endless stars, and then the Earth comes into view, beautiful and blue. As Nao gazes on the Earth a great wind arises, swirling around the planet. She wakes up, shivering from the cold winter’s air coming in through her bedroom window. Nao wonders what the dream could mean.
Read MoreYukio Again
Suddenly one day, Nao and Miki loose control of their abilities as wind handlers. The wind suddenly starts to blow harsher and they begin to feel euphoric. When finally the woman doctor in the nurse's office starts to create wind, the reason becomes apparent.
It was Mr. Taiki's older sister-in-law, Yukio. She had arrived in town. She says she was just on her way back from her friend's wedding. What could be the real reason for her arrival?
And the time that Nao and Miki become adults is definitely coming closer.
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