FINISHED
Windy Tales
13 Episodes
24 min each
FALL 2004
Synopsis
Nao, an 8th 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. Taiki is the teacher who taught the cat how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Ryoko is a girl who has a huge crush on 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 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...
Drama
Fantasy
Slice of Life
Supernatural
Format
Unknown
Episodes
13
Per Episode
24 min
Source
Unknown
Episodes
13 / 13 Episodes
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Episode 1
Episode 1
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.
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Episode 2
Episode 2
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".
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Episode 3
Episode 3
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.
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Episode 4
Episode 4
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).
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Episode 5
Episode 5
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.
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Episode 6
Episode 6
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.
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Episode 7
Episode 7
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.
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Episode 8
Episode 8
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.
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Episode 9
Episode 9
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Episode 10
Episode 10
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Episode 11
Episode 11
12
Episode 12
Episode 12
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Episode 13
Episode 13
Characters
Voice Actors
Satomi Hanamura (japanese)
Miki Kataoka
Main
Voice Actors
Kaori Nazuka (japanese)
Nao Ueshima
Main
Voice Actors
Miyu Irino (japanese)
Jun Nomura
Main
Voice Actors
Aiko Iwamura (japanese)
Ryouko Yoshino
Supporting
Voice Actors
Ooki Sugiyama (japanese)
Taiki
Supporting
The Wind Cat
Supporting
Staff
Minami Ootori
Original Plan
Junji Nishimura
Director
Mamoru Oshii
Supervisor
Masatsugu Arakawa
Character Design
Shichirou Kobayashi
Art Director
Izumi Hirose
Color Design
Comments
Information
Aired
Sep 10, 2004
to Feb 25, 2005
Season
FALL 2004
Source
Unknown
Format
Unknown
Studios
Production I.G
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