Blue Blink

青いブリンク (Aoi Burinku)
Blue Blink
Blink and Kakeru
Genre	Fantasy Adventure
Anime television series
Directed by	Osamu Tezuka
Written by	Osamu Tezuka Takashi Yamada
Music by	Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Original network	NHK General TV
Original run	7 April 1989 – 16 March 1990
Episodes	39

Blue Blink (青いブリンク, Aoi Burinku) is a fantasy adventure anime series created by Osamu Tezuka. The anime is based from classic film Konjok-gorbunok by Ivan Ivanov-Vano.^[1] The film in turn is based from Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov's The Little Humpbacked Horse.

This was Tezuka's last anime series.^[2] Osamu Tezuka died while this series was in production. The studio completed the production according to his plans.^[1] The show was streamed at Anime Sols, but was removed, because it did not meet its goal of crowd-funding for DVD. It is currently only available for legal streaming at Viki.com.^[3]

Story

The story opens with the meeting between our hero, Kakeru, and a mystical pony named Blink. Kakeru saves Blink from a thunder shower and in gratitude, Blink tells him that if he is ever in trouble, all Kakeru needs to do is call out his name three times and he will appear. At the end of the summer when Kakeru returns home, his father, a writer of children's stories, is kidnapped. Kakeru, weeping, calls out Blink's name and, as promised, Blink immediately appears, and the two set out on the trail of Kakeru's father.

Episode list

Episode	Title
1	Departing for Far, Far Away
2	The Secret of Grey Ranch
3	A Prisoner at Rose House
4	The Crooked Ivory Castle
5	The Monster Dogitra of Yellow Fort
6	The Mysterious Fruit of Blue Town
7	Crash! The Moss-Green Road Race!
8	The Island of Temptation — Cobalt
9	The Fighting Country — Red Baal
10	The Mysterious Forest — Sepia
11	Terrace — The Town of Primary Colours
12	The Heart-Thief of Purple Town
13	The Armored Gun-Train of Brown Town
14	Children's Town, Rainbow Town
15	The Light Ark of Gold Valley
16	The Town of Fortune-Telling: Mint Green
17	Milky White: The Secret of the Temple in the Air
18	Will It Bloom?: The Flower of Dark in Emerald Forest
19	To The Dark River! The Mysterious Ultra-Marine Plain!!
20	Animal Paradise: Harpy Green
21	Yellow Oaker: The Town With No Greenery or Flowers
22	The Plane of Love! Fly in the Persian Blue!!
23	The Legend of Davies Gray! Blink Turns into a Fossil!!
24	Submarine City: The Mermaid Princess of Palm
25	Blink Disappears in Opera Town
26	Revive! The Fluorescent Butterflies of Scarlet River
27	Mystery! The Castle of Adventures, Indigo
28	Love Again! Fierce Fight in the Wine Red Sea
29	Enemy or Friend? The Detective of Orange Stone
30	Find the Key of Truth! The Remains of Dark Purple Lake
31	Gold Amber Valley
32	The Upside Down City, Sky Blue
33	Meeting Again! Mother and Child in the Dark Jail
34	Lonely Kakeru! The Nightmare of the Dark Sea!!
35	The Strongest Soldier: Black Samurai
36	To the Dark Castle! Face Up with Courage
37	Prince Horo: The Bronze Trap
38	Gross Castle in Light and Darkness
39	Goodbye to the Endless Journey and Blink

Original Cast

Masako Nozawa as Blink, Kakeru
Miki Itou as Princess Kirara
Ai Orikasa as Julie
Goro Naya as Shiki Haruhiko
Katsuya Kobayashi as Tanba
Kei Tomiyama as Henry
Kenichi Ogata as Nitch
Mari Mashiba as Spika
Saori Tsuchiya as Blink
Satoko Yasunaga as Nana
Sho Hayami as Prince Horo
You Yoshimura as Satch
Yuriko Fuchizaki as Rakururu

Music

Title	English Title	Performer	Description
Hitomi no Naka no Mirai	The Future in Your Eyes^[4]	Yoko Minamino	Opening Song
Makenaide, Yuuki	Don't give in, have courage^[4]	Shinobu Nakayama	Ending Song

References

1 2 Richard Llewellyn (2007-07-01). "Aoi Blink". Animated Divots. Richard Llewellyn. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
↑ "Aoi Blink (Series)". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
↑ http://www.viki.com/tv/5847c-blue-blink
1 2 "Aoi Blink". Animelyrics.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.

External links

Blue Blink in IMDB
Aoi Blink Credits in BCDB
Blue Blink (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Works by Osamu Tezuka
Manga	Diary of Ma-chan (1946) Shin Takarajima (1947) Lost World (1948) Angel Gunfighter (1949) Metropolis (1949) Faust (1950) Kimba the White Lion (1950–1954) Age of Adventure (1951–1953) The Fossil Island (1951) The Adventure of Rock (1952–1954) Astro Boy (1952–1968) Crime and Punishment (1953) Princess Knight (1953–1956) Chief Detective Kenichi (1954–1956) The Devil of the Earth (1954) The Green Cat (1956) Lion Books (1956–1957) Biiko-chan (1957) The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight (1958) The Film Lives On (1958–1959) Peacock Shell (1958) The Twin Knights (1958) Dr. Thrill (1959) The Merchant of Venice (1959) Song of the White Peacock (1959) Angel's Hill (1960–1961) Captain Ken (1960–1961) Brave Dan (1962) Big X (1963–1966) Princess Knight (1963–1966) The Amazing 3 (1965–1966) Ambassador Magma (1965–1967) The Vampires (1966–1967) Dororo (1967–1968) Gum Gum Punch (1967–1969) Phoenix (1967–1988) Princess Knight (1967–1968) Activist Student (1968) Grand Dolls (1968) Swallowing the Earth (1968–1969) The Crater (1969–1970) Triton of the Sea (1969–1971) Alabaster (1970–1971) Apollo's Song (1970) Bomba! (1970) The Book of Human Insects (1970–1971) Marvelous Melmo (1970–1972) Ode to Kirihito (1970–1971) Adachi-ga Hara (1971) Birdman Anthology (1971–1975) Lion Books II (1971–1973) Little Wansa (1971–1972) Serenade of a Pig's Navel (1971) Ayako (1972–1973) Buddha (1972–1983) Lay of the Rhine (1972) Lord Iechika Mogami (1972) The Moon and Wolves (1972) Old Folk's Home (1972) Black Jack (1973–1983) Microsuperman (1973) The Record of Peter Kürten (1973) Sensual Nights (1973) Son of Godfather (1973) The Three-Eyed One (1974–1978) Boy Detective Zumbera (1975) Rainbow Prelude (1975) MW (1976–1978) Unico (1976–1979) Don Dracula (1979) Insect Collector (1979) Insect Collector - The Butterfly Road Smells of Death (1979) The Thief Akikazu Inoue (1979) Hidamari no Ki (1981–1986) Rainbow Parakeet (1981–1983) Spaceship Ringel Rock (1982) Suspicion (1982) Volcanic Eruption (1982) Message to Adolf (1983–1985) Peace Concert (1984) Duke Goblin (1985–1986) Gringo (1987–1989)
Anime	Alakazam the Great (1960) Astro Boy (1963–1966) Big X (1964–1965) The Amazing 3 (1965–1966) Kimba the White Lion (1965–2009) Leo the Lion (1966–1967) Gokū no Daibōken (1967) Princess Knight (1967–1999) Dororo (1969) A Thousand and One Nights (1969) Cleopatra (1970) Marvelous Melmo (1971–1972) Triton of the Sea (1972–1979) Belladonna of Sadness (1973) Little Wansa (1973) Microsuperman (1973) Jetter Mars (1977) Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979) Unico (1979–1983) Astro Boy (1980–1981) Fumoon (1980) Phoenix 2772 (1980) Don Dracula (1982) The Green Cat (1983) Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984) Lunn Flies into the Wind (1985) The Three-Eyed One (1985–1991) Phoenix (1986–2012) Yamataro Comes Back (1986) Blue Blink (1989–1990) The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (1989–1990) Rain Boy (1989) Adachi-ga Hara (1991) Akuemon (1993) Ambassador Magma (1993) Black Jack (1993–2011) In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997) Jungle Emperor Leo (1997) Hidamari no Ki (2000) Metropolis (2001) Astro Boy (2003–2005) Astro Boy: Mighty Atom - Visitor of 100,000 Light Years, IGZA (2005) Astro Boy (2009) Ravex in Tezuka World (2009) Buddha (2011–present)
Characters	Astro Boy Black Jack Dr. Tenma Hosuke Sharaku Pluto Professor Ochanomizu Robita Rock
Related	Animerama Galaxy Boy Troop Mushi Production Osamu Tezuka's Star System Tezuka Award Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Tezuka Productions The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime Tokiwa-sō

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.