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".
The one-minute shorts will be broadcast in three "seasons," with each group of five animated shorts scheduled to run between regular programming on NHK at three periods in the coming months. Due to the nature of the broadcasts, the one-minute shorts will not be listed in TV programming guides. However, NHK has mentioned that the shorts will run primarily on NHK's "General" channel rather than the NHK "Educational" channel. In addition, the shorts will appear on the official Ani-kuri 15 website in the near future.
Season one
Shinji Kimura (Studio 4°C) - Art Director, Steamboy
Shōjirō Nishimi (Studio 4°C) - Character Designer, Tekkonkinkreet
Akemi Hayashi (Gainax) - Character Designer, Fruits Basket
Osamu Kobayashi (Madhouse) - Art/Mecha Desgin, Gungrave
Yasufumi Soejima (Gonzo) - 3D/CG Director, Last Exile
Season two
Atsushi Takeuchi (Production I.G) - Mecha Design, Ghost in the Shell
Mamoru Oshii (Production I.G) - Director, Ghost in the Shell
Kazuto Nakazawa (Studio 4°C) - First Unit Director, Kill Bill Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren from Kill Bill: Volume 1
Range Murata (Character Design, Blue Submarine No. 6 and Tatsuya Yabuta (Story Design, Final Fantasy VII) (Gonzo)
Tobira Oda (Original Manga, Danchi Tomō) and Yasuyuki Shimizu (Key Animation, Naruto (movies)) (Studio 4°C)
Season three
Michael Arias (Studio 4°C) - Director, Tekkonkinkreet
Makoto Shinkai (Comix Wave Film) - Director, The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Shōji Kawamori (Satelight) - Director, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Mahiro Maeda (Gonzo) - Director, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Satoshi Kon (Madhouse) - Director, Paprika
