Video: Origin of the zodiac animals (Japanese)

「まんが日本昔（むかし）ばなし」 is a wonderful Japanese animated series that creates animations from Japanese and other fairy tales. This one is one of the many versions of the story of how 12 animals got assigned to the years of the Chinese zodiac.

There are lots of great stories in this series, and unlike many Japanese TV shows they don't maintain a squadron of copyright ninjas to pull down episodes uploaded to YouTube. Search YouTube for まんが日本昔ばなし to get a long list or other stories.

Let me know if you stumble across any that you particularly liked!