Windy Tales Season 1

(2004) September | # of Episodes : 13

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Series Details

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 13

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Networks: NHK BS1 , ANIMAX , Family Gekijo , NHK BS2

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 11, 2004

Recent Air Date: Feb 26, 2005

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: Japanese

Age Rating: NR

Website: Link

Production Companies: Production I.G

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Main Cast

Kaori Nazuka

Nao Ueshima (voice)

Age : 39 | Popularity : 10%

Satomi Hanamura

Miki Kataoka (voice)

Age : 39 | Popularity : 3%

Miyu Irino

Jun Nomura (voice)

Age : 36 | Popularity : 10%

Masanori Takeda

Kouzaburo (voice)

Age : 52 | Popularity : 3%

Risa Mizuno

Yukio (voice) / Nurse (voice)

Age : 45 | Popularity : 3%

Ai Iwamura

Ryoko Yoshino (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ooki Sugiyama

Taiki (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Episodes

Episode 1

11 September 2004 - Wind Cat

Nao is one of only two members of the Digital Camera Club. She only takes photos of the sky and clouds. While she's looking through the finder the slowly drifting clouds, she witnesses a cat walking leisurely in the sky. Surprised, she stumbles and falls off from the rooftop, but miraculously escapes death, owing to a sudden gust of wind that saves her life. This accident immediately puts Nao in the center of attention. In order to avoid the fuss, Nao comes up to the rooftop again, and there she meets her classmate Ryoko.

Episode 2

11 September 2004 - Wind Festival

Having discovered Mr. Taiki who saved her life, Nao takes her friends Miki and Jun, and heads out to a small town to visit Mr. Taiki's home. Nao and her friends meet an old man who calls himself "The Town's Greatest Wind Handler".

Episode 3

09 October 2004 - 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.

Episode 4

09 October 2004 - Acorn 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).

Episode 5

13 November 2004 - Tales of the Nurse's Room

Mr. Makino is a very popular teacher. He conducts a regular class for the first 30 minutes and then tells "really scary stories" for the last 15 minutes. The dean complains to him, "The other teachers are all doing their 45-minute lessons according to the rules. You should know better. You're an adult." But Mr. Makino has no intention of changing his style. He doesn't like the stuffy atmosphere of the staffroom, so he spends all his spare time in the nurse's office reading books. One day, Nao is resting in the nurse's office sick with the flu, and, through the curtain, hears Mr. Makino talk about his trip to Malaysia.

Episode 6

13 November 2004 - Kick-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.

Episode 7

11 December 2004 - The Typhoon Has Come

Looking up at the rapidly moving clouds, pushed along by the approaching typhoon, Nao is taking pictures with her digital camera. At the same time, Ryoko comes up to the rooftop. She notices there was no sign of the Windcat, which usually floats in the air. When a school announcement tells the students that it's time to go home, the students stream out of the school but Nao and Ryoko stay behind. They are desperately looking for the cat when Mr. Taiki, who is on night duty, comes around on one of his patrols.

Episode 8

11 December 2004 - Cleaning 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.

Episode 9

22 January 2005 - Father's Motorcycle

Nao's father buys a motorcycle. A few days later, she is little nervous when her father lets her ride on the back. Afterwards it seems that her ability to use wind has become stronger. However later, she is told that her father has had an accident.

Episode 10

22 January 2005 - Last 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.

Episode 11

26 February 2005 - Audition Drama

Nao and Miki photograph all their female classmates for use in a competition to find a new teen idol. Nao is persuaded to enter too, and to her surprise gets to the third round. She gets to know a classmate who is already working as a model, who tells her about the endless fruitless auditions, and how although she herself is attractive (and has appeared in TV commercials), no matter how cute you are there always seems to be someone cuter who gets picked instead.

Episode 12

26 February 2005 - Season of Cherry Blossoms

As rain drizzles on the rooftop, Nao is taking digital photos of cherry blossoms in full bloom as if she did not want to accept the fact that the petals were falling. A soaking Nao visits the nurse's office. Nao thought this was a chance to create wind to push the rain cloud away, but Mr. Taiki said, "Let the petals fall. Leave them alone." and ignores her. The next day, Nao and Miki hear an old woman at a rice cake shop near their school tell an old story of a cherry blossom tree in front of the next train station when she was young. After many years, the tree is surrounded by dumped garbage. Nao and Miki wish to do something for the woman and decides to use the digital camera club's website for the purpose.

Episode 13

26 February 2005 - Yukio 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.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Series Director	Junji Nishimura
Writing	Screenplay	Hiroaki Jinno
	Original Concept	Minami Otori
	Original Story	Minami Otori
Visual Effects	Color Designer	Izumi Hirose
	Character Designer	Masatsugu Arakawa
	Animation Supervisor	Nobutoshi Ogura
Sound	Sound Director	Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
	Music	Kenji Kawai
	Theme Song Performance	YuU Windy-s
Editing	Editor	Junichi Uematsu
Art	Art Direction	Shichiro Kobayashi
	Conceptual Design	Masatsugu Arakawa
Production	Supervising Producer	Mamoru Oshii
	Producer	Naoki Onodera Daisuke Gomi Shinsaku Tanaka Hirotsugu Ogisu
Camera	Director of Photography	Jun Taniuchi
Department	Role	Name

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