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dm
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I had no idea Rie Matsumoto was responsible for Mari and Galli. That was a great little semi-educational series full of delightful randomness. I think the fansubbers also introduced me to Pythagoras Switch, which I think aired as separate segments of the same program (think: videos of office supplies repurposed as Rube Goldberg devices).
Didn’t Tweeny Witches originally air in fifteen minute chunks? I suppose omakes (like the Nadia shorts) don’t count…. |
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Joe Mello
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Japanese TV is rife with weekly and daily offerings of series that are 10-15 minutes of length and are varying degree of educational. NHK is the biggest name, but TV Tokyo has been airing Sai-Kyo-Oh, a series about prehistoric 3DCG animals having a battle anime tournament arc and is posting the episodes on YT. My travel group got extremely hype about it when we found it randomly on TV. The ending theme is fantastically Extra. Last edited by Joe Mello on Thu Jun 05, 2025 1:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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VirgilTB4
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Surprised you didn't mention the Mini-Dragon shorts of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. It was an important step in helping KyoAni get back on their feet and allowed the staff to get up to speed on taking over the series. And they were wonderful!
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DerekL1963
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My favorite short form? The masterful Yama no Susume (Encouragement of Climb).
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Gina Szanboti
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Thank you for ending the article with that pic from LycoReco! I studied the earlier pic for the longest time, trying to figure out what was going on. It looked like legs in green pants with tiny feet coming out of Kurumi's mouth in the first pic, like she was vomiting up a person she'd swallowed, and only the second helped me see it was sake bottles.
As for weird shorts, I enjoyed 2018's Jingai-san no Yome, about high school students assigned by the government to marry a variety of aliens (?) spirit creatures (?) youkai (?), not sure what they were, actually. Five min episodes, there's really no explaining it, you have to see for yourself (Crunchyroll had it, not sure if they still do). It's cute and fluffy nonsense. |
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Dop.L
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No love for Teekyuu? That short silly show ostensibly about a ‘soft tennis’ club but really about girls being completely bonkers in short chunks?
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kgw
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No mention to the anime of all times, Me and Roboco??
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Dr. Wily
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I love short-form stuff, especially the trend of web extras as bonuses/additions to normal length shows, I just wish more of them got translated (and/or dubbed). Obviously these days that's no longer as big of a problem as more shows (and extras) get subbed but there's still a lot of stuff I know and would like to see without having to use stuff like YouTube's crappy translated auto-subtitles.
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MiniMarps
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I could make a case for the PICO YouTube shorts being a more appropriate presentation style for Bang Dream than the "main" anime ever could have been. Between 9 bands with 5 members each, obviously a standard-length anime would be a mess if it tried to cover all the franchise's characters and plot threads. But the mini anime format allows for far more extensive exploration of the universe they've built for themselves in the mobile game, while being far easier to digest than the mobile game's nearly 300 (and counting) visual novel -style event stories. You're really getting the best of both worlds with that.
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mdo7
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I like anime shorts, they're quick and bingeable too. If you need to take a short break and you need a short entertainment, then anime shorts are for you.
Also, I would love to see more anime shorts made for children well for kids with above-average reading level skill in the US. I mean we know that subtitles are helping kids with literacy, so beside having those kid-friendly anime shorts having a dub, please include subtitled version for the kid-friendly anime shorts so kids with good or above-average reading skill can practice their reading. |
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Top Gun
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Huh...now that I think about it, minus bonus content on discs, the only short-form anime things I've seen are Trigger projects like Luluco and Inferno Cop. These sorts of things never really cross my path.
(Off-topic, but am I the only one who's generally unable to read the screencap subtitles in TWIA articles because they're way too small? I get that the format is supposed to mimic a text conversation, but it'd be super-helpful to be able to click on them for full-size shots.) |
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tywhoppity
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You mention Douki-chan and Tawawa, and no mention of Miru Tights? I'm disappointed....
My favorite short is I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying. For a short, it had a lot of depth and feels. |
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tywhoppity
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I'm using a Windows PC, and Chrome, but what I do is right click the image, and select "open image in new tab", and a readable version will appear in that tab. Hope this helps! |
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texnixmir
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I'll also call out Room Camp, the Yuru Camp spinoff, Inugami-san and Nekoyama-san, and Crossing Time, all on Crunchyroll. Inugami-san and Nekoyama-san is in my opinion an improvement on the manga, which suffered a little from being very much a gag manga that wound up having a plot shoehorned in. I think it's also a good introduction to Kuzushiro's oeurve, given that she has two more adaptations (The Moon on a Rainy Night and A Workplace Where You Can't Help But Smile) coming in the near future. It also has potentially the most brainrot ED I've ever heard
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PotatoGirl
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Hey, Mari and Galli and Hulaing Babies mention! I watched the latter while it was coming out, it was really fun! There's hulaing lesbians! It's a shame most short anime never recieve physical releases in the West (well most things don't these days but you get the idea).
Also;
Is that a typo? |
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