Anime like Kumi to Tulip

Bannou Yasai Ninninman

Studio: P.A.WORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Young Mari hates eating vegetables and drinking milk so much that she has nightmares about being force-fed the items. One day at school, the young girl chokes down her milk and vegetables and promptly faints from the shock. When she wakes up in the nurse’s office, she comes face to face with Ninninman, Piman and Milk, three food sprites that only appear when Mari drinks her milk and eats her carrots and peppers. Though Mari is less than enthusiastic about being haunted by her most hated foodstuffs, can the three spirits help her realize the importance of friendship, and maybe even teach her to finish her meals?



The Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan invested 214 million yen ($2.26 million) in "Young Animator Training Project" and entrusted the execution of the project to Japan Animation Creators Association (JaniCA). JaniCA will produce four original anime (23 min long with OP and ED sequences) in cooperation with four production studios. Bannou Yasai Ninninman is one of these four projects.

Tags: Kids , Anthropomorphism , School , Slapstick , Food , Urban , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist

Puka Puka Juju

Studio: The Answer Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Puka Puka Juju is one of the four anime works that each received 38 million yen (about US$470,000) from the "2011 Young Animator Training Project." Just like in 2010, the animation labor group received 214.5 million yen (US$2.65 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios who train young animators on-the-job.

Tags: Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Parenthood , Urban , Family Life , Kids , Animals

Ookii 1 Nensei to Chiisana 2 Nensei

Also known as The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

First-grader Masaya is a crybaby despite his large stature, so he can't walk by himself on the dark path to school. The one who holds his hand is Akiyo, a tiny but capable second-grader.

Masaya wants to be strong like Akiyo and admires her, but one day, something happens that leaves Akiyo in tears.

To lift Akiyo's spirits, Masaya goes trekking to the distant Ipponsugi forest to find the spotted bellflowers that Akiyo loves.



One of the four 2014 Anime Mirai (Young Animator Training Project) films funded by the Japanese government's Agency of Cultural Affairs in order to support training animators.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Kids , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Rural , School , POV