TV-Series
Description
"Ahiru no Quack" centers on the life of Quack, a young duck who dreams of becoming a hero despite his small stature and perceived inadequacies. The story is set in a whimsical animal kingdom where anthropomorphic creatures coexist, each with their own roles and aspirations. Quack’s journey begins when he stumbles upon a mysterious artifact that grants him unexpected powers, transforming him into a figure capable of defending his community from looming threats.
The narrative unfolds as Quack navigates the challenges of his newfound abilities, balancing his desire to protect others with his insecurities about being taken seriously. Along the way, he forms alliances with a diverse cast of characters, including a clever fox named Reynard, who serves as both a mentor and a rival, and a brave rabbit named Lop, who becomes Quack’s closest companion. Together, they face a series of adversaries, ranging from rogue bandits to a shadowy organization seeking to exploit the artifact’s power for their own gain.
As the story progresses, Quack’s growth is marked by his increasing confidence and leadership skills, though he remains grounded by his humility and compassion. The plot delves into themes of self-discovery, friendship, and the importance of perseverance in the face of adversity. The series balances moments of lighthearted humor with intense action sequences and emotional depth, creating a dynamic and engaging narrative.
The world-building in "Ahiru no Quack" is rich and detailed, with a variety of settings that reflect the diverse cultures and landscapes of the animal kingdom. From bustling market towns to treacherous forests, each location is intricately designed to enhance the story’s immersive quality. The series also explores the societal dynamics within the animal kingdom, touching on issues of hierarchy, prejudice, and the struggle for equality.
Quack’s journey is not without its setbacks, and the story frequently challenges him to confront his limitations and fears. However, his unwavering determination and the support of his friends enable him to overcome these obstacles, solidifying his role as a true hero. The series concludes with a climactic battle that tests the bonds of friendship and the strength of Quack’s resolve, leaving a lasting impact on the world he has fought to protect.
The narrative unfolds as Quack navigates the challenges of his newfound abilities, balancing his desire to protect others with his insecurities about being taken seriously. Along the way, he forms alliances with a diverse cast of characters, including a clever fox named Reynard, who serves as both a mentor and a rival, and a brave rabbit named Lop, who becomes Quack’s closest companion. Together, they face a series of adversaries, ranging from rogue bandits to a shadowy organization seeking to exploit the artifact’s power for their own gain.
As the story progresses, Quack’s growth is marked by his increasing confidence and leadership skills, though he remains grounded by his humility and compassion. The plot delves into themes of self-discovery, friendship, and the importance of perseverance in the face of adversity. The series balances moments of lighthearted humor with intense action sequences and emotional depth, creating a dynamic and engaging narrative.
The world-building in "Ahiru no Quack" is rich and detailed, with a variety of settings that reflect the diverse cultures and landscapes of the animal kingdom. From bustling market towns to treacherous forests, each location is intricately designed to enhance the story’s immersive quality. The series also explores the societal dynamics within the animal kingdom, touching on issues of hierarchy, prejudice, and the struggle for equality.
Quack’s journey is not without its setbacks, and the story frequently challenges him to confront his limitations and fears. However, his unwavering determination and the support of his friends enable him to overcome these obstacles, solidifying his role as a true hero. The series concludes with a climactic battle that tests the bonds of friendship and the strength of Quack’s resolve, leaving a lasting impact on the world he has fought to protect.
Episodes
Staffel 1
1Alfred comes to life
2Episode 2
3Episode 3
4Episode 4
Quack arrives at the riverside market only to find the stallkeepers packing their goods in silence. A notice nailed to the central post declares new trading restrictions imposed by the upstream council. Quack asks an old eel vendor why no one raised objections; the vendor whispers that anyone who spoke out now faces a week of blocked access to the fishing grounds. Quack crosses to the north bank to confront the council’s clerk, a stork who refuses to look up from his ledger. The clerk states the restrictions are temporary and points to a newly built weir that channels boat traffic through a single checkpoint. Quack returns to the village and gathers three other small merchants to craft a petition. That night, someone saws through two mooring lines of the merchants’ rafts, leaving one cargo crate smashed in the shallows. The next morning, the weir’s gatekeeper demands a written permit before allowing Quack to pass, even for a simple delivery. Quack hands over the petition instead; the gatekeeper tears it in half and drops the pieces into the water. Quack dives after the soggy paper but emerges empty-handed as a patrol boat pulls alongside. The patrol’s leader, a heron with a broken beak, warns that challenging the council’s orders now carries a fine equivalent to three months’ catch. Quack watches the heron mark a tally in his own ledger and realizes the restrictions are less about order and more about extracting payment from those who cannot afford to wait.
5Episode 5
6The great race
7Episode 7
8Episode 8
9Episode 9
10Episode 10
11Episode 11
12Episode 12
Akira confronts Mizore at the flooded quarry after tracing her discarded hospital wristband. He demands to know why she sabotaged the water treatment valve, which caused the district-wide contamination. Mizore admits she acted alone, aiming to stall the city’s redevelopment project that would demolish her late grandmother’s duck sanctuary. Akira’s partner, Tono, arrives with police backup, but Mizore triggers a secondary pump, flooding the lower basin and trapping three surveyors in an access tunnel. Akira dives into the rising water to reach the tunnel’s emergency release while Tono coordinates with the fire brigade above. The release mechanism jams from rust; Akira uses a broken pipe to manually force it open, freeing the surveyors seconds before the tunnel submerges. Mizore escapes during the chaos, leaving behind a notebook with detailed maps of the city’s old sewer network. At headquarters, Chief Amamiya reviews the notebook and connects Mizore’s actions to a series of unexplained equipment failures across three other districts. Tono discovers that Mizore’s grandmother’s sanctuary was originally protected by a long-expired heritage covenant, and the redevelopment’s lead investor is the same corporation that funded Akira’s first major case five years ago. Akira requests leave to pursue Mizore on his own, citing her intimate knowledge of the underground tunnels and the risk of more casualties if the police move in force. Amamiya grants him 48 hours before issuing a citywide alert. Akira returns to the quarry at dusk, finds a hidden hatch beneath the old pump house, and descends into the sewers with only a flashlight and a single flare. The hatch slams shut behind him, sealing the entrance from above.
13Episode 13
Quack and the others arrive at the abandoned factory on the outskirts of the city, following the anonymous tip about the missing prototype. Inside, they find the stolen energy core already installed in a large mechanical frame, its power readings fluctuating wildly. The engineer, Dr. Arisugawa, steps out from behind the machinery and reveals she faked her own disappearance to test the core’s stability away from corporate oversight. Quack attempts to reason with her, but she activates the frame to demonstrate its destructive capacity, forcing the group to take cover from its uncontrolled energy discharges. During the chaos, Arisugawa loses direct control of the machine when the core overheats and begins to overload. Kanta spots a manual emergency shutdown switch on a high catwalk and climbs up while Quack and the others create a diversion by drawing the machine’s fire. Kanta reaches the switch but hesitates when Arisugawa yells that pulling it will destroy years of research data. Quack shouts that saving lives takes priority, and Kanta slams the switch, deactivating the frame and stabilizing the core. The authorities arrive shortly after to take Arisugawa into custody, and she coldly notes that her work was always meant to be completed, regardless of the cost. Back at the office, the team learns that the prototype’s energy readings during the overload were recorded by a rival company, which now has a clear path to replicate the technology. The episode ends with Quack receiving a sealed envelope containing a single photograph of the rival company’s lead engineer standing next to Arisugawa at a conference from five years earlier, suggesting the sabotage was planned from the start.
14Episode 14
15Episode 15
16Episode 16
17Uchuu kara no O-Tomodachi
18Episode 18
Quack and Piyoko reach the outskirts of the storm-battered coastal town where the legendary smith is said to reside. They find the smith’s workshop half-collapsed from a recent tidal surge, its owner, an elderly duck named Gansuke, sitting amid scattered tools and refusing all help. Quack offers to repair the forge’s broken bellows in exchange for sharpening his sword, but Gansuke dismisses the weapon as unworthy of his time. Piyoko discovers water-damaged blueprints for a specialized diving bell, revealing that Gansuke’s real obsession is retrieving a rare ore from a treacherous underwater cave. When Quack insists on attempting the dive himself, Gansuke warns that the cave’s currents have already claimed three divers. Quack and Piyoko spend the night reinforcing the bell with salvaged timber and sealant, using techniques Quack learned from his shipwright father. At dawn, Gansuke watches them launch the bell without asking for his permission. Quack descends into the cave, battling suffocating pressure and a sudden rockfall that severs his rope. Piyoko spots the rope’s end drifting from the surface and dives in after him without a second thought. The episode closes with Gansuke grabbing his old diving helmet and wading into the surf, muttering that he will not lose another fool to the depths.
19The ocean belong to all of us
20Episode 20
Quack discovers a crack in the main canal gate that regulates water flow to the lower rice paddies. Elder Tetsu orders the gate sealed, which would flood Quack’s own plot but save the village’s primary crop. Quack instead proposes a risky repair using resin from the marsh trees. Karuko volunteers to dive into the rising water to secure the wooden brace. While she holds the brace in place, Quack applies the resin, but the current sweeps the tools away. Rin arrives with a spare brace she had prepared earlier after anticipating Quack’s plan. The three work together to fit the second brace, and the gate holds. Afterward, Tetsu publicly acknowledges Rin’s foresight but warns Quack that acting without consulting the village council again will result in formal censure. Quack accepts the warning but privately tells Karuko that he will continue to prioritize saving individual plots over following procedure when time is short. Karuko points out that Rin’s intervention prevented the repair from failing, and Quack admits he underestimated the current’s strength. The episode closes with Rin standing alone at the repaired gate, checking the braces one more time before nightfall, her expression unreadable. The next morning, a notice from the regional water authority arrives, demanding an inspection of the gate within three days, placing Quack and Rin in a race to present a unified explanation before an outside audit.
21Episode 21
22Episode 22
Quack arrives at the riverbank to find the water level dropped overnight, exposing old stone markers. Garu, his rival, claims the markers belong to his family’s territory, but Quack counters that the markings match his grandmother’s diary. Elder Crane confirms the stones outline an ancient migration route used by both families and warns that a dam upstream will divert the remaining water within three days. Quack proposes they work together to dismantle the dam’s lower barriers, but Garu refuses, insisting his flock can relocate alone. Quack’s younger sister, Piku, sneaks away at night and begins loosening the dam’s support beams by herself. Garu discovers her and, after hesitation, helps her secure the beams to prevent a collapse. The next morning, Quack finds both at the dam; Garu admits his refusal came from pride, not practicality, and agrees to coordinate. Together they pry loose two of the three barriers, restoring a strong current to the river. Elder Crane declares the shared labor reestablishes the old treaty between the families. The dam’s owner, a beaver contractor named Rokusuke, arrives with a written permit from the city council, accusing them of trespass and property damage, leaving Quack and Garu to face legal action that could strip both families of their nesting grounds.
23Episode 23
24Episode 24
Quack arrives at the riverside clinic carrying a wounded stork shot by an unknown hunter. Dr. Heron refuses to operate without payment, forcing Quack to offer his grandfather’s heirloom compass as collateral. Inside the operating room, Heron discovers the bullet contains a coded message wrapped in oilcloth. He pockets the message and completes the surgery, but later reports the stork’s recovery to the town magistrate as a routine injury. Quack overhears Heron and the magistrate discussing a scheduled exchange of contraband weapons at the old mill. That evening, Quack trails Heron to the mill and witnesses him handing the coded message to a masked figure in exchange for a locked chest. When Quack steps out of hiding to confront them, the masked figure draws a pistol. Quack ducks behind a cart, and the figure fires, striking the chest instead and shattering its lock. The chest spills open, revealing not weapons but stacks of forged land deeds. Heron immediately accuses the masked figure of betrayal, and the two begin a physical struggle over the documents. Quack grabs several deeds and flees into the forest as shots ring out behind him. Back at the clinic, the stork warns Quack that the deeds implicate the town’s ruling families in a long‑running land‑grabbing scheme, and that both Heron and the magistrate will now hunt him to silence the evidence. The episode closes with Quack hiding the deeds inside the hollow of a ginkgo tree while the magistrate’s guards begin searching house‑to‑house.
25Episode 25
26Episode 26
27Episode 27
Quack builds a second raft after the first one breaks on the river rocks. Akko and Piyoko gather branches for him while Quack lashes the logs with rope he soaked to make it swell. Piyoko asks why Quack does not simply fly over the mountain, and Quack answers that carrying Akko and the supplies would exhaust him before the other side. The three push the raft into the current, and the water immediately drags them past a collapsed bridge where bandits wait. The bandits throw stones, forcing Quack to steer the raft into a narrow side channel that scrapes the hull against jagged stone. Akko loses her grip on a sack of medicine, and Piyoko dives in to retrieve it. The current pulls Piyoko under a fallen tree, and Quack jumps in after her. He pushes her to the surface, but the tree trunk pins his leg. Akko pulls the raft against the current with a rope tied to a root, then uses a branch to lever the trunk loose. Quack surfaces with a deep gash along his leg. The group camps in a cave where Akko cleans the wound with boiled water and wraps it using strips torn from her own sleeve. Quack insists they move at dawn, because the mountain pass will freeze overnight. Piyoko volunteers to scout ahead, discovering that the bandits have blocked the pass with felled trees. The episode closes with Quack fashioning a splint while Akko maps a route across a higher, exposed ridge, knowing the bandits will see them if they take that path.
28Episode 28
29Episode 29
30Episode 30
31Drilling for oil
32Episode 32
33Episode 33
Quack and the ferry crew navigate the Narrow Strait as a dense fog rolls in without warning. Kani loses his grip on the rudder when a submerged branch strikes the hull, sending the vessel toward the reef. Quack dives overboard with a mooring line and ties it to a protruding rock, halting the drift inches from the jagged edge. On shore, Nagi refuses Ahiru’s request to light the signal fire, citing a pact with the upstream villages that forbids outside aid. Ahiru digs up the old flint stones from the shed and strikes a spark herself, the flame cutting through the fog. Nagi watches without intervening but does not stop her. The signal reaches the ferry, and Kani uses the smoke’s bearing to correct their heading. Once docked, Nagi tells Ahiru that breaking the pact will cost them the grain shipment due next week. Ahiru accepts the consequence, stating the crew’s lives outweighed the agreement. The village elder, observing from the pier, says nothing but later instructs the storehouse keeper to release half the grain to Nagi’s household. Quack notices the elder’s ledger now holds a new entry under Ahiru’s name. The episode closes with a messenger from the upstream villages arriving at dawn, demanding an explanation for the fire.
34Episode 34
35Episode 35
36Episode 36
37Episode 37
38Love unites
39Episode 39
40Episode 40
41Episode 41
42Episode 42
43Episode 43
44Episode 44
45Episode 45
46Episode 46
47Episode 47
48Episode 48
49Episode 49
The Merchant Guild delegation arrives at the royal capital with the forged trade treaty, placing Ahiru and Quack under direct surveillance. Ahiru discovers that the treaty’s wax seal contains a trace element unique to the Northern Quarries, a region the delegation claims never to have visited. Quack confronts the delegation’s lead envoy in the throne hall, demanding inspection of the original charter. The envoy orders the royal guard to seize Quack for treason, but three palace clerks step forward, each confirming the seal’s origin from independent records. The king voids the treaty on the spot and orders the delegation detained for further questioning. Ahiru retrieves the true treaty from a hidden compartment in the envoy’s carriage, using a key Quack pickpocketed during the confrontation. The envoy confesses under pressure that a shadow syndicate orchestrated the forgery to incite war between the kingdom and the coastal duchies. With the immediate crisis averted, the royal council grants Ahiru and Quack full authority to investigate the syndicate’s leadership. The closing scene shows a coded message arriving at the syndicate’s headquarters, naming the pair as its next target.
50Episode 50
51The Quack That Crossed the Sky
Quack and the flock reach the Great Southern Marsh after three days of flight. The elder heron, Graybeak, confirms that the seasonal current has reversed earlier than recorded in any previous cycle. Quack examines the water flow meters installed by his father ten years ago and finds the calibration disks fused from salt corrosion. Akita uses her engineering knowledge to craft a temporary bypass using bamboo shafts and salvaged copper wire from an abandoned weather station. The bypass redirects enough water to restore flow to the eastern channels, but the pressure cracks three junction pipes. Mallard volunteers to dive and seal the leaks with clay and resin, despite the rising tide that limits visibility. Quack calculates that the bypass will last only forty-eight hours before the salt intrusion reaches the main basin. The council of waterfowl votes to evacuate the eastern nesting grounds, a decision that splits the community. Ko, a young teal, refuses to leave and instead leads a small team to manually dredge the silt buildup at the northern inlet. Their effort clears a secondary channel, temporarily lowering the water level in the basin and buying an additional twelve hours. Quack confronts Graybeak about the elder’s earlier silence regarding the deteriorating equipment, and Graybeak admits he concealed the damage to avoid panic during the breeding season. Quack decides to stay with the dredging team while Akita departs with the evacuees to secure tools from the upstream settlement. The episode closes with the northern inlet’s water level beginning to rise again, faster than expected, and a distant thunderstorm approaching from the west.
52Episode 52
Cast
- Angela González
- Marlous Fluitsma
- Winnie Wana
- Amelia Jara
- Capitán MorsaÁngel Rodríguez
- Bram van der Vlugt
Comment(s)
Staff
- Director
- Storyboard
- Original story
- Animation DirectorSusumu ShiraumeMitsuharu KajitaniNorio KanekoMasaki KudōKenji HachizakiShinnosuke KonKazuo TomizawaShinichi TōkairinEiji SuzukiShirō MurataTomomi MizutaOsamu Kamijō
- Director of PhotographyHisao Shirai
- ScreenplayAkira Miyazaki
- Episode DirectorShigeo KoshiMasayuki KojimaKoji MasunariNobuo TomizawaKeiko OyamadaKazuo TomizawaNaoto HashimotoJunya KoshibaYūji UchidaHiroshi Jinsenji
- Character DesignSusumu ShiraumeMasaru Amamizu
- Sound DirectorShigeharu Shiba
- ProducerManabu TamuraSumio TakahashiMutsuo Shimizu
Production
- ProductionTelescreenVisual '80
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