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Kunisaki Yukito is a young man who is chasing a dream. He has no family or friends, only a puppet and a dream of one day finding a girl in the sky with wings. Just as his mother lived her life before she died, Yukito wanders from city to city using his mysterious talent performing puppet shows on the street to try and earn money for food and shelter. Things aren't looking well for him either when he reaches a town where no one seems to be impressed with his mysterious stringless puppet. And even stranger, he has yet to see any money around. The best he has received is rice coupons and snacks. Things start to look up though when one day a young school girl named Kamio Misuzu befriends him offering him food and companionship.
The anime television series is produced by Kyoto Animation, directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, written by Fumihiko Shimo, and features character design by Tomoe Aratani who based the designs on Itaru Hinoue's original concept. Thirteen episodes were produced by Kyoto Animation: twelve regular episodes, and a final recap episode which summarizes Misuzu's story arc. The anime also follows the game by splitting the series into three parts; Dream (episodes one through seven), Summer (episodes eight and nine), and Air (episodes ten through twelve), with the recap episode (episode thirteen) following. The episodes aired between January 6 and March 31, 2005 on the BS-i Japanese television network.[37][38] The theme songs from the Air visual novel are used for the anime's opening theme, ending theme and soundtrack. After the conclusion of the anime series, a mini-series which added to the Summer arc of the story called Air in Summer aired on August 28 and September 4, 2005 a week later on BS-i. Air in Summer consisted of two episodes and was produced by the same staff as the anime series.
