Immediatly knew it's Yasuji Murata's work since you can immediatly recoknize his art style. It's a nice anime, well accept for a vertain scene after which I so badly wanted for the monkey to all die. Otherwise the story is great, the music this time does fit into the film. There also is a bit of "voice" acting, well only the pup barking. The characters are okay, nothing special but not too blend, again the animation is the part why it gets a 9, really saves the whole film. If you would be interested I do recomend to give it a watch, it reallyis a blast from the past.