Majokko Tsukune-chan - EPISODE 1 - [2005]

Sources: animenewsnetwork.com, wiki/Majokko_Tsukune-chan

Alternative title:

魔女っ娘つくねちゃん (Japanese)

Genres: comedy, magic

Themes: magical girl

Plot Summary: Tsukune-chan is a peculiar magical girl who keeps trying to help others and fight evil-doers despite of her questionable sense of justice.

Running time: 13 minutes per episode

Number of episodes: 6

Vintage: 2005-08-24 to 2006-01-25

Opening Theme:

"Tsukune-chan no Flying Machine" by Halko Momoi

Ending Theme:

"Luminary" by Halko Momoi

Official website:

魔女っ娘つくねちゃん @ StarChild (Japanese)

Majokko Tsukune-chan (魔女っ娘つくねちゃん) is a Japanese manga by Hiroaki Magari, serialized in Young Magazine Uppers (2003–2004) and Monthly Shōnen Sirius (2005 August - 2006 May, 2006 July -). It is a parody of magical girl manga. Tsukune is a skillful and powerful witch who rescues others from danger. In 2005, an anime OVA was created and directed by Hiroaki Sakurai.

EPISODE 1 In the introduction, a man with rabbit ears has fallen down a cliff. His leg is broken, and he is hungry. Tsukune appears and heals him, as well as cooking her sidekick Pupurin so he has something to eat (although the man is a vegetarian). Pupurin's ghost still hangs around, though.
In the first part, the king mails himself to Tsukune, as he has been threatened by the Daimauo (meaning "Great Devil"). The delivery boy then reveals himself as the Daimauo and turns the king into a frog. In retaliation, Tsukune places a bad luck curse on the Daimauo: he gets lost, loses his wallet and keys, steps in dog mess, and his castle burns down. He apologises and returns the king to normal, but Tsukune cannot help, as she cannot fix the secondary causes of magic with more magic, only the immediate (for example, if she were to use magic to knock someone over, she could use magic to make sure he didn't fall over again, but if he landed on a detonator, she couldn't do anything about that). As an alternative, she sends the Daimaou back in time (via a reference to Doraemon), and he tells his past self about Tsukune. His past self shows up at her house, and tries to kill her, placing an anti-magic barrier around her house, but she knocks him out with a large mallet.
In the second part, two robbers try to rob a convenience store, but are stopped by a young girl, who asks the cashier if he knows the location of Tsukune's house. When she arrives, she introduces herself as Shioretta Flowers (Shioretta means "wilted", thus a pun on "wilted flowers"), a witch, and her butler Shibata, who wears a wig. She explains that she plans on becoming the world's greatest witch, and to do so she is defeating other witches. Her next target is Tsukune, but before they can fight, Mr Judge (a man in a superhero-esque outfit and an iron mask with the word LAW stamped on it) appears and tells them that love is the only way to win, so Tsukune proposes a love and peace contest: they will each cast a nasty spell on someone, switch partners, and cast a spell to undo the damage, with the first one to hit a button winning. They use Shibata and the mayor, Mr Mayor (a decomposing corpse), and cast their spells. Shioretta's spell somehow brings the mayor back to life, but as she is gloating, Tsukune reveals that she cast more than one spell. As such, the mayor now has a wig, and Shibata has a full head of hair. Shioretta concedes defeat and leaves, promising to return and battle Tsukune again.
In the third part, the two robbers from the second part help an old woman home. Having done something good, they decide to do something bad in order to keep the balance. Meanwhile, Tsukune gets a letter from her parents telling her that her little sister Kokoro is coming to visit. Tsukune greets her, and tells the mayor that Kokoro has a problem with her magic: every time she sneezes, she causes something to blow up. After Kokoro destroys Tsukune's house, she goes off to play, but is kidnapped by the robbers, who demand one million yen for her safe return. Tsukune sends the mayor down through the telephone lines to save her sister, causing the robbers to flee. But when the mayor ungags Kokoro, she sneezes again, causing the robbers hideout to explode.

 Director: Hiroaki Sakurai

Music: instant cytron

Original creator: Hiroaki Magari

Character Design: Masayuki Onchi

Art Director: Hiromasa Ogura

Chief Animation Director: Masayuki Onchi

Director of Photography: Eiji Arai

Editing: Taeko Hamauzu

Key Animation:

Kazuhiro Sasaki (Anime R; ep 2)

Yuko Yamamoto (Anime R; ep 2)

Planning: Toshimichi Ootsuki

Special Thanks To: Hiroyuki Okiura (ep 3)

CAST:

Halko Momoi as Tsukune

Ai Tokunaga as Kanako

Atsuko Enomoto as Shioletta

Chiemi Chiba as Kokoro

Daisuke Ono as Kuma

Masayuki Katou as Bancho

Norihisa Mori as Hattori-kun

Tomoyuki Shimura as Mayor

Yuko Sanpei as Nabul

COMPANIES:

Finish Animation: Production I.G

In-Between Animation:

asread

MADHOUSE

P.A. Works

Production I.G

VENET

Xebec

Key Animation:

Anime R (ep 2)

Studio Liberty (eps 3, 6)

Production:

Starchild Records

Xebec

Sound Production: HALF H·P STUDIO

Mundo Pocoyó - Episodio 1 - [2005]

Pocoyo's name was provided by David Cantolla, one of the creators, after his three-year-old daughter used it in her nightly prayers saying "Eres niño poco yo" ("You're a child little me") instead of "Eres niño como yo ("You're a child like me"). "Pocoyó" could roughly be translated to English as "little me", "not much me" or "a little bit me", though it is a made-up construction.^[6]

Pocoyo (Pocoyó in Spanish) is a Spanish pre-school animated television series created by Guillermo García Carsí, Luis Gallego and David Cantolla, and is a co-production between Spanish producer Zinkia Entertainment, Cosgrove-Hall Films and Granada International. Two series have been produced, each consisting of 52 seven-minute episodes. English actor and comedian Stephen Fry narrates the English-language version and José María del Río narrates the Castilian Spanish version of the first two seasons, while Stephen Hughes narrates the third season, called Let's Go Pocoyo.

Set in a 3D space, with a plain white background and usually no backdrops, it is about Pocoyo, a 3-year-old boy, interacting with his friends Pato (a duck), Elly (an elephant) and Loula (a dog). Viewers are encouraged to recognise situations that Pocoyo is in, and things that are going on with or around him. The narrator usually speaks explicitly to the viewers and to the characters as well. Each character has its own distinctive dance and also a specific sound (usually from a musical instrument), and most episodes end with the characters dancing. Many episodes also involve parties.

In the United Kingdom, it was originally broadcast on CITV, a children's strand on the ITV network. In September 2007,Channel 5 acquired terrestrial rights in the United Kingdom to the first and second series, making it part of the Milkshake!strand. The show, however, will continue to air on the CITV Channel.^[1] Other broadcasters in the English speaking countries include RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland, Nick Jr. in the U.S. nationwide and local station KCET-TV as well as KLCS-TV channel 58-2 in Los Angeles and on Univision in LATAM Spanish, Treehouse TV in Canada,^[2] ABC in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand.

In Russia, Pocoyo is aired on Карусель (Carousel) children's channel.

In the Philippines, Pocoyo was aired on Disney Junior.

In Spain, TVE2 started broadcasting the second series in April 2008.^[3] The third season began airing in 2009 under the titleLet's Go Pocoyo and was designed to teach English to Spanish preschoolers. The makers also wish to embark upon other projects, one of which may be a Pocoyo movie.^[4]

In June 2006, Pocoyo was awarded the Cristal Award for the "Best TV Production" at the 30th Annecy International Animated Film Festival.^[5]

Musashiden II: Blade Master (武蔵伝II ブレイドマスター Musashiden Tsū Bureido Masutā) - INTRO - [Hiroyuki Imaishi]

Intro directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi

Musashi: Samurai Legend, known in Japan as Musashiden II: Blade Master (武蔵伝II ブレイドマスター Musashiden Tsū Bureido Masutā, lit. "The Legend of Musashi II: Blade Master"), is a third-person action game developed and published by Square Enix in 2005 for Sony's PlayStation 2. Much like its predecessor, Brave Fencer Musashi, the game involves real-time combat in a 3D environment, and character designs by Tetsuya Nomura.

The game was released in North America, Japan and Europe. Strangely, while the game is not referenced on the Australian PlayStation site^[2] nor on the OFLC site,^[3] the game was indeed released in Australia, printed with an OFLC "Parental Guidance" (PG) rating.

The gameplay in Musashi consists almost entirely of action segments where the player is confronted with foes and various other obstacles.

The Last Knit (Kutoja) - [Laura Neuvonen] - [2005]

Source: animationblog.org

The Last Knit (Kutoja) is a movie I intended to feature well over a year ago but it somehow got lost in the ether. Laura Neuvonen' s tale of an obsessive knitter is compulsive viewing, edge of your seat job, or rather cliff. It is barely dawn and a lone knitter sets down her chair high on top of a cliff face. Her fingers get busy and ripples of coloured wool are set against the bare terrain looking for all the world like a mountain range. The lady is unable to stop knitting, even when the weight of her output pulls her ever nearer to the cliff edge. And when she needs it most she runs out of wool. A funny tale of compulsive disorder. Some folk eat, some diet, some write blogs. Just like that rooftop I was writing about the other day, the location is terrific with the director teasing out each nail clicking moment for all it is worth. Laura's character is a superb creation, her facial expression determined in her madness, clawing her way back from the brink, knitting needles utilised as fiercely as a pick axe on the Eiger. Laura works for Helsinki's Anima Vitae, who claim there have been over a million internet downloads of the movie. The link above is actually to a higher quality version.

When knitting becomes an obsession. 


Directed by Laura Neuvonen 
Country Finland 
Year of Production 2005 
Running Time 7 minutes