Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

This series is an anthology of old Japanese tales.

An omnibus-format TV series consisting of anime adaptations of Japanese folk tales, this is one of Japan's longest-running TV series, and Group Tac's second TV series. The governing rule of the series was that the creative staff change from episode to episode. While later other anime series like Nippon Animation's Famous Works of Japanese Literature would attempt the same, none would be as long-lived or successful. The reason for rotating the staff each episode was so that each episode would have a completely different look and feel from its predecessor, and in this it was eminently successful. This is a series that is genuinely rewarding to watch, and is visually one of the richest in anime history. While this system also meant that quality varied, there were also occasionally superb episodes, as on the staff were many veterans like Group Tac founder SUGII Gisaburo himself, SHIBAYAMA Tsutomu, FURUZAWA Hideo, RIN Taro, and HIKONE Norio. Old episodes started being repeated more and more frequently as the years went on, and production of new episodes finally ceased completely in late 1995, but the series is still widely broadcast.

This was an anthology program containing several different animes each week along with some non-animated segments. Several of the animated films were short series including: Nazo no Rouba [謎の老婆] (tvss), Meibugyou Bun-san [名奉行・文さん], Jo Keibu Jinguuji Youko [女警部・神宮寺葉子], Remon Suzumori's Soudanjo [鈴森なんでも相談所].

15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators". Season One 1) Shinji Kimura - Attack of Higashimachi Ni Chome/Attack of Higashimachi 2nd Burough 2) Akemi Hayashi - Namida no Mukou/From the Other Side of the Tears 3) Yasufumi Soejima - Hyotoko/Blaze Man 4) Osamu Kobayashi - Sancha Blues/The Aromatic Tea Blues 5) Shinjiro Nishimi - Uchujin Raikou Hiroshi no Baai/Invasion from Space - Hiroshi's Case Season Two 6) Mamoru Oshii - Project Mermaid 7) Kazuto Nakazawa - "yurururu" ~Nichijou Hen~ 8) Range Murata and Tatsuya Yabuta - Gyrosopter 9) Tobira Oda and Yasuyuki Shimizu - Sport Captain Episode No.18: Assassin Descended from the Mountain Hunt!! 10) Atsushi Takeuchi - Wandaba Kiss Season Three 11) Makoto Shinkai - Neko no Shuukai/A Gathering of Cats 12) Mahiro Maeda - Onmitsu Hime 13) Michael Arias - Okkakekko 14) Shouji Kawamori - Project Omega 15) Satoshi Kon - Ohayou/Good Morning