Season 1 (2002)
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Episodes 5
Professor Dan Petory's Blues
A 10-minute short directed by Hidekazu Ohara,[1] "Professor Dan Petory's Blues" is a musical number starring a hand puppet named Junior. The puppet is controlled by the drunken Professor Dan Petory who explains in puppetry the answers to such questions as why the Earth is blue and why UFOs fly in a zig-zag pattern.
Read MoreEnd of the world
A 10-minute short directed by Osamu Kobayashi, "End of the World" is a science fiction story about a young alien girl named Yuko as she escapes from the world of humans. After returning to her own world with Kazumi, a human girl she met at a rock concert on Earth, Yuko wages a retaliatory campaign against hordes of S&M monsters, and the evil queen of Yuko's world. The music featured is by the all-girl punk rock group, Lolita No.18. The short features the voice-talent of Hikaru Midorikawa.
Read MoreComedy
An 11-minute short directed by Kazuto Nakazawa, the gothic "Comedy" is based on Shubert's "Lucifer," and details the adventures of a pale young girl (Ai Maeda) and her interactions with the mysterious "Black Knight" (Hikaru Midorikawa) who has the power to utterly decimate entire armies.
Read MoreJunk Town
A 13-minute short, "Junk Town" represents the directorial debut of Nobutaka Ito. This is a science fiction story about a young boy who discovers and befriends a small robot at a shopping arcade. The robot is hungry and he grows in size as he devours a number of machines of increasing size.
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