Aoi Blink

Aoi Blink or Blue Blink is a sci-fi anime series created by Osamu Tezuka. The anime is based from classic film Konjok-gorbunok  by Ivan Ivanov-Vano. The film in turn is based from Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov's The Little Humpacked Horse.

This was Tezuka's last anime series. Osamu Tezuka died while this series was in production. The studio completed the production according to his plans.

Plot summary
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 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. Only at the end, when Kakeru woke up from his deep sleep found out that all his adventures with Blink was only his father’s writings that shown in his dreams.

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