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A collection of animated shorts adapts various short stories and four-panel comics by Keiko Fukuyama. Featured pieces include "My Father the Mouse," "The Rabbit Brothers," "Summer Secret," "The Mysterious Fairy," "How Very Strange," and "Kuro."

When Kei was a small boy, his fisherman father vanished at sea just seconds after giving him a farewell present—a pan flute made from whalebone. Several years afterward, a young Kei and his little brother Moito come across a baby whale pinned by a rock in a shallow cove along the Spanish shoreline.

In Esteria, the people are locked in a struggle against mythical beasts that ceaselessly attack, wearing down their defenses despite the assembled army's efforts. The fortified town of Minea, where survivors take shelter behind castle walls, cannot escape the hopelessness born from these endless assaults. Amid this gloom, a prophecy emerges, foretelling that a courageous young hero will appear to save the land. Adol Christin, an explorer driven by a thirst for adventure, reaches Esteria after surviving a shipwreck. Together with fortune-teller Sarah Tovah and other allies, Adol sets out on a dangerous journey across the island to find the legendary Books of Ys. Though the path is perilous, this quest may allow Adol to realize the prophecy and restore peace to Esteria.