is an anime series by
Sunrise Animation that aired on
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certifie ...
.
The series' characters include Picco, Tocho, and Fufu, three animals who aim to recover the mystical scales of a fish, Aesop - that way Aesop will be able to fly again.
Characters
The main characters in Aesop World include:
* Aesop - The main character of the series. It is a mysterious giant
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
that flies in the sky. It used to fly around the world, but for many years it has become impossible to fly by dropping scales.
* Picco - a female
hamster
Hamsters are rodents (order Rodentia) belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae, which contains 19 species classified in seven genera.Fox, Sue. 2006. ''Hamsters''. T.F.H. Publications Inc. They have become established as popular small pets. The ...
. Naughty at times, but she is curious and cheerful.
* Tocho - a male
platypus
The platypus (''Ornithorhynchus anatinus''), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative or mono ...
. He is gentle and strong and good at swimming, but can be very gluttonous at times and motivated as soon as food is involved.
* Fufu - a male
ferret
The ferret (''Mustela furo'') is a small, Domestication, domesticated species belonging to the family Mustelidae. The ferret is most likely a domesticated form of the wild European polecat (''Mustela putorius''), evidenced by their Hybrid (biol ...
. A little weak and nice. Knowingly, his head spins quickly and comes up with various strategies.
References
External links
Aesop Worldat ''
Sunrise Animation''
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1999 Japanese television series debuts
1999 Japanese television series endings
1999 anime television series debuts
Japanese children's animated adventure television series
Japanese children's animated fantasy television series
Adventure anime and manga
Fantasy anime and manga
Japanese-language television shows
TV Tokyo original programming
Animated television series about mammals
Fictional hamsters
Fictional ferrets
Fictional monotremes
Animated television series about children
Animated television series about fish
Anthropomorphic animals
Works about friendship
Television shows set in Japan
Forests in fiction
Sunrise (company)
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