🌸 Iridi's Recommended Shorts List 🌸
Figured I'd list the shorts that I personally enjoy and think others should check out! Roughly organized by... genre? Sort of?
Anything clearly intended for children is marked with a seedling! 🌱
Arthouse & Experimental
- Aru Tabibito no Nikki - beautiful, surreal, and heavily focused on visuals rather than dialogue
- 663114 - cicadas and nuclear fallout
- Nekojiru Gekijou Jirujiru Original - violent, bizzare, black humor featuring "cute" cat siblings. Technically a comedy but I'd feel weird listing it as that when Nekojiru as a whole is... surreal? (highly recommend the 30-minute Nekojiru-sou film and the Nekojiru Udon manga too)
- Yukidoke - atmosphere horror about a boy's fears
Slice of Life & Drama
Comedy
- Aggressive Retsuko - cute lil workplace comedy from Sanrio (Hello Kitty company). Not as good as the full-blown Netflix series but still enjoyable.
- Inferno Cop - INFERNO COP! If you haven't heard of this yet, what is wrong with you!? Produced by the venerable Studio Trigger, follow a skeleton-cop-that's-on-fire, doing... stuff. His job? Picture book style animation.
- Uchuu Patrol Luluco - another Trigger masterpiece. Also contains Inferno Cop. Strap in for a bizarre space/school action adventure complete with vivid, colorful animation and an ending theme by Teddyloid (aka the ME!ME!ME! guy)
- Poputepipikku - you know, that webcomic that got big on 4chan or whatever. Either you love it or you hate it.
- 🌱 Gakkatsu! - kids comedy anime where characters debate a new topic every day
- Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan - psychic comedy!
- Zonmi-chan: Meat Pie of the Dead - goofy 3D short about a zombie :)
- 🌱 Hipira-kun - 3D vampire child has wacky adventures
- Anime de Wakaru Shinryounaika - medicine...?
- Anisava - furries...?
- 🌱 Bananya - bananas + cats. what more do you need
- 🌱 Mitchiri Neko - soothe your soul with even more cartoon cats
- Uchuu Senkan Tiramisù - Sci-fi adventures following nasty pilot boy Subaru Ichinose who is definitely in love (lust?) with the darn cockpit
- Mori no Andou - penguin's just gotta save the forest, man
- Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys - a (cross dressing) girl who has to fight her way to the top at a delinquent school
- 🌱 Nyanpire The Animation - cute vampire cat and cat friends
- Sekkou Boys - are you into idols? How about Renaissance statues? The answer to both better be yes.
Compilations
each episode is a different genre
- Ani*Kuri15 - a bunch of unrelated shorts celebrating some of Japan's top animators circa 2007. Some are better than others.
Absolute Garbage
shorts that are bad. real bad. some are so bad it's good, some are so bad it's just... painful. e n j o y
- Chainsaw Maid - TAKENA! If you enjoy shorts, Takena better be a household name to you. He makes horror claymations and they're always a treat. Whether or not his work is so-bad-it's-good or actually good is up to debate. This is one of his more "normal" movies.
- 🌱 Onyankopon - a fresh song every episode. 3D cats and stuff, looks like some cheap MMD motion sensor animation or whatever it's called. The animal designs are genuinely endearing but the show itself is pretty terrible.
- Pupa - Cannibalism! Incest! Ignore the haters, this is the best anime of our time.
- Tenshi no Drop - is this piss fetish?
- Nami - WARNING! NSFW I'm only listing this because I want other people to suffer.
- Utsu Musume Sayuri - see above, but with less nudity and more 3D animation.
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