Japanese adventurer Yasunaga Ogita and illustrator Nana Inoue’s children’s picture book Pihotek: Walking With the Wind in the North Pole (Pihotek: Hokkyoku o Kaze to Aruku or Pihotek: Walking the Arctic With the Wind) inspired an anime short.
The short is the third project in the Animehon initiative, which animates short videos based on Kodansha’s picture books (ehon in Japanese).
He observes animals in their natural habitat, and falls asleep with a sense of oneness with nature mediated by the wind.
Animehon, a new animation initiative from Kodansha, posted the 30- second commercial version of the animation and the two-minute director’s cut version on September 6.