is a fantasy adventure anime series created by

Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu'', – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Considered to be among the greatest and most influential cartoonists of all time, his prolific output, pioneering techniques an ...

. The anime is based from classic film ''Konjok-gorbunok'' by Ivan Ivanov-Vano. The film in turn is based from Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov's '' The Little Humpbacked Horse''. This was Tezuka's last anime series. Osamu Tezuka died while this series was in production. The studio completed the production according to his plans. The show was streamed at Anime Sols, but was removed, because it did not meet its goal of crowd-funding for DVD. It is currently only available for legal streaming at Viki.com.

Story

The story opens with the meeting between the hero, Kakeru, and a mystical

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named Blink. Kakeru saves Blink from a thunder shower and in gratitude, Blink tells him that if he is ever in trouble, all Kakeru needs to do is call out his name three times and he will appear. At the end of the summer when Kakeru returns home, his father, a writer of children's stories, is kidnapped. Kakeru, weeping, calls out Blink's name and, as promised, Blink immediately appears, and the two set out on the trail of Kakeru's father.

Episode list

Original cast

* Masako Nozawa as Kakeru * Miki Itou as Princess Kirara * Ai Orikasa as Julie * Goro Naya as Shiki Haruhiko * Katsuya Kobayashi as Tanba * Kei Tomiyama as Henry * Kenichi Ogata as Nitch * Mari Mashiba as Spika * Saori Tsuchiya as Blink * Satoko Yasunaga as Nana * Sho Hayami as Prince Horo * You Yoshimura as Satch * Yuriko Fuchizaki as Rakururu

Music

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