Traditional anime episodes are 22 minutes long, but there are some short-duration anime that are about 2, 5, or 11 minutes. In this article, we will look at a list of the best short anime for you to watch in a short amount of time.
Generally, people don’t like these quick anime because they are often generic, weak, without a story, or focused on fan service. Some end up being very nonsense, not having much time to develop the story.
Not to mention that recently, every season has released short anime that are actually disguised hent@is, which further degrades the image of these short-duration animations. Fortunately, there are many anime from 3 to 11 minutes that are worth watching.
Most short anime have comedy and are slice of life with a touch of romance and drama. For this reason, we will not separate them by genre, but by the anime’s duration. I hope you enjoy the article!
There are more short anime than you think. At the end of this article, we will leave a list with over 300 short-duration anime. Don’t forget to share the article with your friends!
Table of Contents
Short anime with 1 and 2 Minutes
Ketsuekigata
- Episodes: 48
- Duration: 2min
As silly as the character designs may seem at first glance, Ketsuekigata-kun! is actually a quite intelligent representation of personality traits according to blood type, which are particularly popular in Japan.
Certainly much of this is based on stereotypes related to blood types, but that’s exactly how people who believe in it characterize others. It’s cute, funny, and surprisingly informative.
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- Duration: 1min
Retsuko is a 25-year-old red panda who works at her dream company, however, she is forced by her supervisors to perform increasingly difficult and impossible tasks. To decompress, she sings death metal at karaoke.
Teekyuu
- Episodes: 74
- Duration: 2min
They are simply a group of friends who play tennis and get involved in conversations and strange situations. It strongly resembles the mind of an adolescent in their chaos and non-linear development.
Short anime with 3 minutes duration
Chi’s Sweet Home
- Episodes: 104
- Duration: 3min
Chi’s Sweet Home is about a kitten that strays from its cat family and gets lost. Instead of the brutal reality that usually happens to lost kittens, she is picked up by a boy and his mother and taken to her new home.
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- Episodes: 36
- Duration: 3min
This 3-minute anime is a lovely representation of friendship and an adventurous spirit. While the girls adopt climbing as a hobby, they find new friends, discover new things about themselves, and explore nature.
Recorder to Randoseru
- Episodes: 38
- Duration: 3min
Recorder to Randoseru Do♪ is a hilarious depiction of the life of an 11-year-old boy who is 1.80 meters tall and his 17-year-old sister who is only 1.37 meters tall.
Can you imagine how many inappropriate situations he finds himself in when surrounded by girls who make him look like a pervert?
Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san
- Episodes: 13
- Duration: 3min
When a cat lover and a dog lover form an attraction for each other, sparks fly as the two girls from Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san try to get closer!
Danchigai
- Episodes: 13
- Duration: 3min
Danchigai is the story of a brother and his four sisters, whose daily goal is to lecture him about how he lives his life and the people he hangs out with. What starts as a story of an ‘irregular’ family turns into an adventurous journey through the world of the siblings.
Mangirl!
- Episodes: 14
- Duration: 3min
A group of girls with zero experience in the world of manga decide to risk their passion alone to create the largest manga magazine in Japan! The journey is difficult, stressful, and full of failures, but the girls from Mangirl! have no intention of giving up!
Oneechan ga Kita
- Episodes: 13
- Duration: 3min
A new marriage brings a new sister to the family for the unprepared Tomoya Mizuhara. Her overwhelming love for him is often too much to handle, and his friends certainly aren’t making things easier! See what happens when two families combine in this short and funny anime.
Ojisan to Marshmallow
- Episodes: 12
- Duration: 3min
Hige is an old fat man addicted to marshmallows, and he spends the day being teased by his coworker Wakabayashi, a woman who is in love with him. The story shows the daily life of the two in the most diverse situations. Does old Hige like marshmallows so much that he is unable to perceive the feelings that Wakabayashi has for him?
Gregory Horror Show
- Episodes: 88
- Duration: 3min
Half comedy, half horror, Gregory Horror Show tells the story of a man who arrives at a hotel after work. The hotel owner, Gregory, invites him to stay a while, and thus the man is pulled into a bizarre purgatory from which he tries to escape.
Anime of 4 and 5 minutes
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
- Episodes: 120
- Duration: 5min
Endowed with a wide variety of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to X-ray vision, Kusuo Saiki finds all these abilities a curse, full of inconveniences caused by his powers.
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- Episodes: 135
- Duration: 5min
Hetalia Axis Powers is one of the most popular short anime series of all time, and for good reason, because it’s hilarious! Each character represents a different country, with all the stereotypes that accompany them, and their mutual interaction contributes to exceptionally fun 5 minutes!
Senyuu
- Episodes: 26
- Duration: 4min
Senyuu follows the journey of the hero Alba and his assistant Ross with the goal of defeating an evil being who unleashed demons in the world. Each episode is very short and full of adventure, laughter, and action, this is absolutely mandatory in the short anime genre.
Nyanpire The Animation
- Episodes: 12
- Duration: 4min
A lost kitten is saved by a vampire before almost dying, and now has become Nyanpire! He is adorable, fun, and very relaxing to watch. It may not have the most complex plots, but the idea of a vampire kitten is priceless.
Aiura
- Episodes: 12
- Duration: 4min
What do you do at school when there’s nothing to do? Aiura has an infinite supply of ideas to help you! Whether just in the classroom or in the school grounds. The story follows a group of very unmotivated high school girls who just want time to pass a little faster at school.
Makura no Danshi
- Episodes: 13
- Duration: 4min
Need someone to whisper sweet words in your ear? Makura no Danshi dedicates each episode to a ‘pillow boy’, who will tell you about his life and hobbies, and then continue ‘whispering’ like a kind of ASMR.
Miss Monochrome: The Animation
- Episodes: 39
- Duration: 4min
Miss Monochrome tells the story of an aspiring idol who hates all colors and prefers that everything in the world be black and white. Her peculiar character and the facial expressions of those around her who are trying to understand her reasoning in life create some hilarious moments.
Super Seisyun Brothers
- Episodes: 14
- Duration: 4min
Super Seisyun Brothers is a very laid-back anime about the friendship of two pairs of brothers. There isn’t much emotional impact, but there is certainly a good amount of humor. This is the perfect anime for a quick break.
Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken
- Episodes: 26
- Duration: 5min
The anime follows the daily life of a woman named Kaoru and her otaku husband who is completely immersed in a certain blog.
Kaoru begins trying to find some method to understand her beloved. This anime has many parodies and nonsense jokes, and also, hilarious characters.
Anime from 6 to 10 minutes
Space Patrol Luluco
- Episodes: 13
- Duration: 7 min
This story takes place in Ogikubo, an area of the Milky Way where earthlings and aliens can live together. Luluco is a high school student and lives with her father. No matter where she is, Luluco is an ordinary girl, she is “super normal”.
One day in her normal life, a mysterious transfer student abruptly appears before her. This event will change Lulu’s destiny.
Wakaba*Girl
- Episodes: 14
- Duration: 7min
Overloaded with cuteness with Wakaba*Girl, which follows the life of a rich and cute girl who really wants to adopt the Gyaru style! With frequent setbacks and confusion, her friends try to help her become the perfect Gyaru girl!
Tonari no Seki-kun
- Episodes: 21
- Duration: 7min
Seki spends most of his time in class creating paper wars, scenarios, and small inventions on his school desk to pass the time. Although he doesn’t notice her, Rumi Yokoi is intrigued by his creativity, which often gets her in trouble with the teacher.
Oshiete! Galko-chan
- Episodes: 12
- Duration: 7min
The story is a comedy that revolves around the daily life of Galko, Otako, and Ojou, three high school students who are close friends. Galko is a somewhat crude girl, but has a good nature, and is popular in her class. Otako is a girl who sits in the corner of the classroom, but for some reason has a good friendship with Galko. Ojou is an airhead who often talks to Galko and Otako.
Okusama ga Seito Kaichō!
- Episodes: 24
- Duration: 8min
Hayato Izumi is the perfect, respectable student and is running for student council president. However, his rival Ui Wakana promises sex education and free condoms, winning the election.
Still frustrated by his loss, things get worse when Ui moves into his house. Apparently, their parents made a drunken promise that their children would get married. As vice president, can he keep his life secret and the student council in line at the same time?
Short-duration anime with more than 10 minutes
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- Episodes: 12 + 6
- Duration: 13min
A bit of perversion, a lot of passion, and even more humor can be found in Mangaka-san to Assistant-san. It revolves around the story of a mangaka who is trying to enter the highly competitive world of manga, and his parallel problems of not knowing how to talk to girls!
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- Episodes: 6
- Duration: 18min
Eve no Jikan takes place in a future where mechatronics has reached an incredible level of perfection capable of manufacturing robots practically identical to human beings, with the difference that they are used only as mere tools.
The plot unfolds when the owner of one of these androids, Rikuo, notices that his android Sammy is acting strange. Trying to find the cause, he ends up finding a “cafe” called Eve no Jikan, whose rule was that there was no discrimination between human and android.
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- Episodes: 26
- Duration: 11min
The anime shows 13 zodiac signs coming to life as schoolboys in an idol school melting the heart of any girl.
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- Episodes: 12
- Duration: 13min
Soichi Negishi is a quiet and pacifist young man who dreams of one day forming a Swedish pop band and singing happy and romantic songs. However, for unknown reasons, he ends up becoming the vocalist and guitarist of Detroit Metal City.
This death metal band stands out for its aggressive shows, heavy music, and lyrics filled with hatred. Negishi hates his life as Krauzer II and the violent shows, and soon, his dual personality begins to clash, complicating his life.
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- Episodes: 24
- Duration: 13min
Natsuki, Tomoya, Keiichi, and Tsuyoshi are high school students and friends. The four young men spend their days having fun. Natsuki has an unrequited passion for Anna, a girl from another class, and his friends interfere in his relationship. But all of them have something to do with the theme of the anime: love.
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou
- Episodes: 26
- Duration: 12min
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou (literally translated “Prepare yourself!! Cromartie High School”) narrates the entry of Takeshi Kamiyama, a 16-year-old second-grade student, into Cromartie High School, which has the bad reputation of being the most dangerous educational institute in the city of Tokyo.
Complete List of Short Anime
This giant list has over 300 short anime. Some are specials, OVAs, and some repetitions of other seasons of the same anime. I tried to purify the list a bit by deleting specials and second seasons, but there should still be some.
- A Piece of Phantasmagoria
- Accel World: Acchel World;
- Africa Salaryman
- Agukaru: Agriculture Angel Baraki
- Aho-Girl
- Ai no Wakakusa Yama Monogatari
- Ai Tenchi Muyo!
- Ai wa KAT-TUN
- Aishen Qiaokeli-ing…
- Aiura
- Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge: Sore Yuke! Gedou Otometai
- Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge: Zettai Seigi Love Pheromone
- Akiba-chan
- Akindo Sei Little Peso
- Alice SOS
- Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Brothers
- Amazing Nuts!
- Ane Log: Moyako Nee-san no Honpen wo Tobidashite Tomaranai Monologue
- Ani ni Tsukeru Kusuri wa Nai!
- Ani Tore!
- Anisava
- Ao Oni The Blue Monster
- Ape Escape
- Assassination Classroom: Extracurricular Lesson
- Ayumayu Theater
- Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu: Spinout! Sore ga Bokura no Nichijou
- Bananya
- BAR Kiraware Yasai
- Barakamon: Mijikamon
- Batman: Gotham Knight
- Beast Saga
- Beyond the Boundary: Idol Trial!
- Beyond the Boundary: Mini Theater
- Bihada Ichizoku
- Bikini Warriors
- Binchou-tan
- BLAME!
- Bloody Bunny
- Boku no Imouto wa “Oosaka Okan”
- Bonjour♪ Sweet Love Patisserie
- Bottle Fairy
- Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV
- Buddy Go!
- Busou Chuugakusei: Basket Army
- Busou Shinki Moon Angel
- Candy Boy
- Catman
- Chain Chronicle
- Charady no Joke na Mainichi
- Cheating Craft
- Cheburashka Arere?
- Chi’s New Address
- Chi’s Sweet Adventure
- Chi’s Sweet Home
- Chiba Pedal: Yowamushi Pedal to Manabu Jitensha Koutsuuanzen
- Chibi Devi!
- Chiruran: Nibun no Ichi
- Chitose Get You!!
- Chocolate Underground
- Chou Shounen Tanteidan NEO
- Chou Yuu Sekai: Being the Reality
- Chrono Crusade: Azmaria’s Extra Lessons
- CoCO & NiCO
- Colorful
- Copihan
- Cosprayers
- Crane Game Girls
- Crayon Shin-chan Gaiden: Kazokuzure Ookami
- Cromartie High School
- Cyclops Shoujo Saipuu
- Damekko Doubutsu
- Danchigai
- Dark Side Cat
- Dekiru ka na
- Detroit Metal City
- Di Gi Charat
- Dia Horizon (Kabu)
- Diabolik Lovers
- Diabolik Lovers More, Blood
- Digital Juice
- Dogtato-kun
- Donyatsu
- Double Hard
- Double-J
- Doujin Work
- Ebichu
- Encouragement of Climb
- Enoshimans
- Eureka Seven Ao Final Episode: One More Time -lord don’t slow me down-
- Final Approach
- Forest Fairy Five
- Forest Fairy Five: Fairy Tale
- Funny Pets
- Fushigi Mahou Fun Fun Pharmacy
- Fushigi na Somera-chan
- Gag Manga Biyori
- Gakkatsu!
- Gakuen Handsome
- Galaxy Angel
- Gan Gan Ganko-chan
- Gene Diver
- Genius Party
- Getsuyoubi no Tawawa
- Girl Friend Note
- Girls’ Last Class
- GJ8 Man
- Glamorous Heroes
- Gohan Suki
- Gokujo. Gokurakuin Joshikou Ryou Monogatari
- Gregory Horror Show
- Gudetama
- Guomin Laogong Dai Huijia
- Hagane Orchestra
- Haitai Nanafa
- Haiyoru! Nyaru-Ani
- Haiyoru! Nyaru-ani: Remember My Love(craft-sensei)
- Hakone-chan
- Hakuouki: Otogisoushi
- Hal & Bons
- Halo Legends
- Hanamaru Kindergarten: Panda Neko Taisou
- Hanaukyo Maid Team
- Hanoka
- Happy Kappy
- Hen Zemi TV
- Henkei Shoujo
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Hetalia: The Beautiful World
- Hetalia: The World Twinkle
- Hetalia: World Series
- Hey, President Trap-kun!
- Hi-sCool! Seha Girls
- Higanjima X
- Higepiyo
- High Score
- HiGH&LOW g-sword
- Hikaru Utada: Fluximation
- Hipira: The Little Vampire
- Hitori Kurashi no Shougakusei
- Honobono Log
- Honto ni Atta! Reibai-sensei
- I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying
- I’m stuck!! ～life of the dead～
- Ikemen Sengoku: Toki wo Kakeru Koi
- Iketeru Futari
- Inagawa Junji no Sugooku Kowai Hanashi
- Inazuma Eleven: Outer Code
- Inferno Cop
- Insufficient Direction
- Ippatsu Kikimusume
- Ishida and Asakura
- Isobe Isobee Monogatari: Ukiyo wa Tsurai yo
- Jewelpet Attack Chance!?
- Jigoku Youchien
- Jingisukan no Jin-kun
- JK Meshi!
- K-On! Ura-On!
- Kagewani
- Kagewani: Shou
- Kaijuu Girls
- Kaito x Ansa
- Kamigami no Ki
- Kanbee-kun ga Yuku
- Karada Sagashi
- Kare Baka: Wagahai no Kare wa Baka de R
- Karen Senki
- Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys
- Ketsuekigata-kun!
- Kid Icarus
- Kikou Sennyo Rouran
- Kimagure Robot
- Kimoshiba
- Kodoku no Gourmet
- Kogepan
- Koitabi: True Tours Nanto
- Komori-san Can’t Decline!
- Koro-sensei Quest!
- Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun
- Kotatsu Neko (Web)
- Kowabon
- Koyomimonogatari
- Kremlin
- Kurayami Santa
- Kurogane Communication
- Kuruneko
- KY-kei JC Kuuki-chan
- Kyou no Asuka Show
- Kyoufu! Zombie Neko
- Legend of DUO
- Let’s Go! Tamagotchi
- Let’s Nupu Nupu
- Lights of the Clione
- Love is Like a Cocktail
- Love Kome: We Love Rice
- Love Love?
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
- Lovely Muuuuuuuco!
- Lychee DE Light Club
- Macross Fufonfia
- Magica Wars
- Magical Play
- Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu
- Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls
- Maji de Otaku na English! Ribbon-chan: Eigo de Tatakau Mahou Shoujo
- Majin Bone
- Majokko Tsukune-chan
- Makeruna!! Aku no Gundan!
- Makura no Danshi
- Mangirl!
- Marie & Gali
- Meitantei Rascal
- Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya
- Meow Meow Japanese History
- Military!
- Milpom
- Mini Moni the TV
- Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen
- Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen SC
- Miss Bernard said;
- Miss Monochrome
- Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku
- Miyanishi Tatsuya Gekijou: Omae Umasou da na
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Character Theater
- Mobile Suit Gundam-san
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V
- Mokei Senshi Gunpla Builders Beginning G
- Momokuri
- Monster Musume: Hobo Mainichi OO! Namappoi Douga
- Monster Strike
- Morita-san wa Mukuchi TV
- Mouse
- Muromi-san
- Musashino!
- My Wife Is the Student Council President!
- My Wife Is the Student Council President! Okusama Gekijou
- Naked Wolves
- Nameko: Sekai no Tomodachi
- Nanami-chan
- Nandaka Velonica
- Nazotokine
- Neko mo, Ondake
- Neko nanka Yonde mo Konai;
- Neko no Dayan
- Neko Pitcher
- Neko Ramen
- Neko to Mata
- Nekojiru Gekijou
- Neo Ranga
- Netsuzou Trap
- Ninja Girl & Samurai Master
- Ninja Slayer From Animation
- Nora, Princess, and Stray Cat
- Nui Nui Hinobori San Kyoudai
- Nuwa Chengzhang Riji
- Nyanbo!
- Nyanko Days
- Nyanpire The Animation
- Nyoron! Churuya-san
- Ocha-ken: Chokotto Monogatari
- Oh! My Goddess: The Adventures of Mini-Goddess
- Omakase Mamitasu
- Omiai Aite wa Oshiego, Tsuyoki na, Mondaiji;
- Onara Gorou
- One Off
- One Room
- Onee-chan ga Kita
- Onegai My Melody Sukkiri♪
- Onigiri
- Ontama!
- Onyankopon
- Ooya-san wa Shishunki!
- Oreca Battle
- Orenchi no Furo Jijou
- Oretacha Youkai Ningen
- Oshiri Kajiri Mushi TV
- Oshiri Tantei: Mina to Machi no Tuk-tuk Chase
- Osiris no Tenbin
- Osomatsu-san: Mutsugo to Ouma no Monogatari
- Osomatsu-san: Short Film Series
- Overlord: Play Play Pleiades
- Ozmafia!!
- Pacusi
- Pan de Peace!
- Panda-Z: The Robonimation
- Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat
- Passionate Detective Agency
- Patema Inverted: Beginning of the Day
- Peeping Life
- Peeping Life: This is Fate!
- Penguin Musume Heart
- PES: Peace Eco Smile
- Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
- Petit Gargantia
- Phantom Thief Reinya
- Piace: Watashi no Italian
- Pingu in the City
- PiNMeN
- Piroppo
- Pittanko! Nekozakana
- Place to Place Youchien
- Plastic Nee-san
- Platonic Chain
- Platonic Chain: Web
- Popee the Performer
- Post Pet Momobin
- Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki
- Psychic Academy
- Puchimas! Petit iDOLM@STER
- Puchimas! Petit Petit iDOLM@STER
- Pugyuru
- Pupa
- Pupipo!
- Q Transformers: Kaette Kita Convoy no Nazo
- Q Transformers: Saranaru Ninkimono e no Michi
- Ragnastrike Angels
- Rainbow Days
- Rainy Cocoa
- Rainy Cocoa, Welcome to Rainy Color
- Rainy Cocoa: Ame-con!!
- Re:ZERO -Starting Break Time From Zero-
- REC
- Rizelmine
- Robot Carnival
- Room Mate
- Saishuu Shiken Kujira
- Sanjougattai Transformers Go!
- School Shock
- SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors
- Sekiei Ayakashi Mangatan
- Sekkou Boys
- Sengoku Choujuu Giga
- Sengoku Choujuu Giga: Otsu
- Sentai Hero Sukiyaki Force
- Senyuu;
- Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoiyo!! Masaru-san
- She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
- Shi Xiong
- Shiba Inuko-san
- Shibawanko no Wa no Kokoro
- Shina Dark
- Shokupan Mimi
- Shounen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan
- Show By Rock!! Short!!
- Shrine of the Morning Mist
- Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita;
- Smash Hit
- Soul Buster
- Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni…
- Space Patrol Luluco
- Sparrow’s Hotel
- Starry☆Sky
- Steel Angel Kurumi
- Stray Sheep Poe no Chicchana Daibouken
- Super Seisyun Brothers
- Sushi Police
- Suzakinishi The Animation
- Suzy’s Zoo Daisuki! Witzy
- Sweet Valerian
- T-sensei
- Tabi Machi Late Show
- Taiko Drum Master
- Taishou Mebiusline: Chicchai-san
- Takamiya Nasuno desu!
- Tales of Gekijou
- Tama and Friends: Uchi no Tama Shirimasenka?
- Tama-Pawns
- Tanaka-kun wa Kyou mo Kedaruge
- Tantei Team KZ: Jiken Note
- Tayutayu -Pure my Heart-
- Teekyuu
- The Animatrix
- The Comic Artist and His Assistants
- The Irresponsible Galaxy Tylor
- This Boy is a Professional Wizard
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