Kobayashi Mitsuo

Like in any culture, Japanese kids grow up listening to the stories repeatedly told by their parents and grandparents. The boy born from a peach; the princess from the moon who is discovered inside a bamboo; the old man who can make a dead cherry tree blossom, etc. These short stories that teach kids to see both the dark and bright sides of life have passed traditional moral…

This is the country called Aesop World. Pikko, Toccho and Fuufuu are very good friends and live in the Water Wheel Village. One day the three of them play in the mountains and fall by accident down into a secret lake. What they find there is the giant fish Aesop. Long ago he could fly freely through the vast sky, but during all the years he lost his "scales" and is now no…