Every episode is a different director's interpretation of a Japanese folk tale you've never heard before. The animation shifts with each staff rotation, so you're watching 936 different creative visions instead of one house style grinding itself into the ground. This is what happens when a studio trusts its artists enough to let them remake the same show over and over without losing their voice.

Every episode adapts a different Japanese folk tale in this long-running omnibus TV series, which stretches to 936 episodes and ranks among the longest-running series on Japanese television. Its guiding rule was to change the creative staff from one episode to the next, so each installment has its own look and feel. Director Sugii Gisaburo came up with the rotation, and veterans such as Shibayama Tsutomu, Furuzawa Hideo, Rin Taro and Hikone Norio worked on it. Quality varies as a result, but the best episodes stand out, and the series is praised as one of the most visually rich in anime. It was Group Tac's second TV series. New episodes stopped in late 1995, though reruns continue to air widely.