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Knyacki!

This imaginary worm is 'knyacking' forward to anywhere in town.
30 episodes x 5 minutes each

#1. Wind. Towel. Street. Whistle.
#2. Salad. Steel Net. Record. Knyacki Statue
#3. Clock. Ring. Garbage. Sweet Home. Paper Lantern.
#4. Acorn. Chestnut. Palm Seed. Banji-Jump
#5. Mosquito-repellent Incense. Daffodil Badminton.
#6. Great Monster. (Terrestrial) Globe.
#7. Tooth-Brushing. (3 Shorts) Skating
#8. Giant Knyacki!
#9. Ant. Corn
#10. Magnet. Cross. Laundry
#11. It's summer!. Sea! Hermit Crab
#12. Fishing. Bird's Nest. Snow on Christmas
#13. News. Mandolin.
#14. New Gymnastics. Sky-Diving.
#15. Macaroni.
#16. Macaroni. Rival.
#17. Red Round. Radio
#18. Clay Paradise. Leaf
#19. Graphic. Watering Place
#20. Rain.
#21. Cicada's Shell. White Fight
#22. Big Nose. Coffee Break
#23. Alarm Clock. Deer Scare-off (See-Saw Bamboo Pipe)
#24. A Story of Whistle
#25. Pink Diet. William Tell. Super-Transformation!
#26. Mushroom *Mirror
#27. BBQ/Fly High/Why are you crying, the bully boy?/Cherry.
#28. Bonsai Apartment
#29. Soda Cafe.
#30. Lemon Ring

Animation: Yuichi Ito
Music: Shinji Takeuchi
Produced by: NHK & NEP21

Robot Palta

Robot Palta is living alone. He is a sleepy head and a hasty chap. Every day of his life with his friend, Clock Robot and his girl friend, Pipuko is full of mess!!
30 episodes x 5 minutes each

#1. I'm a sleepy head!
#2. Let's get our bodies in shape!
#3. Good work, Robo-Rescue Squad!
#4. A big egg.
#5. A Museum guardsman.
#6. An Adventure at the bottom of sea.
#7. A house cleaning.
#8. I have a date!
#9. A dog called Korota.
#10. Palta hits a jackpot!
#11. An alien from the Planet Mushroom.
#12. Treasure Hunt.
#13. Let's shape up our body harder!
#14. Making a car.
#15. A policeman.
#16. Secret of Palta's birth.
#17. Shopping a video game machine.
#18. Exercise on the mountain - wrestling with a bear!
#19. Pipuko Likes Drawing.
#20. Commotion at the Cinema Park.
#21. Tin robot revives!
#22. It's fun to go to the Circus!
#23. Dancing Cactus?
#24. Let's play on the snow mountain.
#25. Is he Samurai Musashi of Robot Schwarzenegger?
#26. Shopping in the desert.
#27. Everybody dances.
#28. Struggle in the rain.
#29. Secret of the Lake.
#30. Space Explorers!

Animation: Katsushi Bowda
Music: Naoki Yamashita
Produced by: NHK & NEP21

Jam the House Snail

A fantastic tale of imaginary snail called Jam, his family, and his small friend, Pip.
6 episodes x 5 minutes.

#1. Jam meets Pip.
#2. Jam's Music Concert
#3. Mushroom Hunting.
#4. Jam makes a lie. (He farts in the class and puts the blame on Stinky.)
#5. Jam's dream
#6. Jam and Beetles
*** New episodes are still in production.

Animation: Tatsuhisa Nomura
Music: Kuricoda Quartet
Produced by: NHK & NEP21

Booburger

5 episodes x 5 minutes

#1. Snack Time - Boo Burger tries to snatch other kid's snacks.
#2. Picnic - BB follows folks for picnic. He wants to find something delicious.
#3. Park - BB meets a dog in a mysterious park and rides on a flying dragon.
#4. Sea - BB falls in the water.
#5. Are you eating, Boo Burger? - BB enjoys songs and chats with his friends.
#6. What are you eating, Booberger?

Animation by: IKIF
Music by: Kensaku Tanigawa
Produced by: NHK

Snippy The Scissors

3 episodes x 5 minutes

#1. Paperman - Paperman is a good guy. He transforms himself into other shapes and fights against snippy.
#2. A Cave - Toko-chan and snippy the Scissors fall down into a cave.
#3. Munching Cloud - Toko-chan and Snippy help each other to fight Munching Cloud by creating weapons with "Origami."

Animation by: Mitsuhiro Kimura
Music by: Aaron Moses
Produced by: NHK

Nicompoop Ghost

1 episode x 5 minutes

Ghost wants to scare the naughty kid fox by transforming into various shapes.

Animation: Reiko Yokosuka
Music: Junnosuke Yamamoto
Produced by: NHK

Mokki The Persimmon Tree

A heart warming short story of a tiny persimmon tree and a baby crow. The drawing is rather plain but brilliantly touching. -- Running time - 5 minutes

Animation: Reiko Yokosuka
Music: Naoki Yamashita
Produced by: NHK & NEP21

Bip And Bap

"Bib and Bap" is a comedy-action series of the detectives and their archenemy thief.
4 episodes x 5 minutes

#1. Picaro the Phantom Thief.
#2. King of Waltz.
#3. Great Train chase.
#4. Deep Sea Operation.

Animation by: Toshikatsu Wada
Music by: Ryo Kamomiya
Produced by: NHK