Pihotek: Walking With the Wind in the North Pole Picture Book Gets Anime Short
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. 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. The short is the third project in the Animehon initiative, which animates short videos based on Kodansha's picture books (ehon in Japanese). Kodansha describes the story: Kazuhiro Hocchi (episode director on Rita et Machin, Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan) directed the short, and Yuri Habuka (More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers, Maebashi Witches, Zannen na Ikimono Jiten) composed the music. Fanworks animated the short.Kodansha published the book in August 2022.Sources: Animehon's YouTube channel, Cocreco, Comic Natalie, Kodansha