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
Three aliens come to a cardboard Earth to invade.
A sad young girl recovers from a heartache.
A group of native warriors attack a giant kami in the shape of a bear. The kami sets one of the warriors on fire spiritually.
An avaricious record-store owner watches greedily as patrons look through his records.
Hiroshi tries to read his manga but a small robot is shooting pellets to distract him so the robot can escape.
A fish turns into a mermaid who swims out into a post-apocalyptic city.
An animator spends the whole day animating a 1-second clip of a giant fish in a city.
A young gyrocopter pilot visits a pool of water and remembers a gyrocopter battle and the death of a friend on a watery planet.
A superhero comic book character and Tomoo's idol from Tobira Oda's manga, Danchi Tomoo. Who has his meal stolen by a cat after being attacked by a villain (his master's daughter). Then he imagines about his master (Paul) scaring the cats. Then he falls into a river and chased by his sidekick (The Bear and The Crow) and drifts over a waterfall.
A young boy and his dog initiate a complex Rube Goldberg machine to steal a kiss from a young girl.
The family cat (Chobi) has had his tail stepped on one too many times and dreams of revenge.
12A magical girl and her doll must defeat an invading horde of air pirates.
A magical girl and her doll must defeat an invading horde of air pirates.
A group of children run across fields and play with a giant scary robot.
As an alien force hurtles toward NHK headquarters in Tokyo, the NHK building springs to life as an evangelion-transformer to battle the foe.
A young girl gets up from bed and sleepily tries to awaken herself.