is a series of fifteen 1-minute shorts broadcast by

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between May 2007 and 2008. Intended as companion pieces to the ''Ani*Kuri'' program and as filler between regularly scheduled programs, the shorts were broadcast in three seasons of 5 episodes. Each short was directed by a different director and the episodes were collected and uploaded to the official ''Ani*Kuri15'' website in 2008.

Episodes

Season 1

*"Attack of Higashimachi 2nd Borough" (Shinji Kimura:

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) - Three aliens come to a cardboard Earth to invade. * (Akemi Hayashi: Gainax) - A sad young girl recovers from a heartache. * (Yasufumi Soejima:

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) - A groups of native warriors attack a giant

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in the shape of a bear. The kami sets one of the warriors on fire spiritually. *"Sancha (The Aromatic Tea) Blues" ( Osamu Kobayashi: Madhouse) - An avaricious record-store owner watches greedily as patrons look through his records. * (Shōjirō Nishimi:

) - Hiroshi tries to read his manga but a small robot is shooting pellets to distract him so the robot can escape.

Season 2

*"Project Mermaid" (

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) - A fish turns into a mermaid who swims out into post-apocalyptic city. *"Yurururu ~Nichijou Hen~" ( Kazuto Nakazawa:

) - An animator spends the whole day animating a 1-second clip of a giant fish in a city. *"Gyrosopter" (Ranji Murata and Tatsuya Yabuta:

) - A young gyrosopter pilot visits a pool of water and remembers a gyrosopter battle and the death of a friend on a watery planet. *"Wandaba Kiss" (Atsushi Takeuchi:

) - A young boy and his dog initiate a complex

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in order to steal a kiss from a young girl. * (Tobira Oda and Yasuyuki Shimizu:

) - A super hero comic book character and Tomoo's idol from Tobira Oda's manga, Danchi Tomoo. Who has his meal stolen by a cat after being attacked by a villain (his master's daughter). Then he imagine about his master (Paul) scaring the cats. Then he falls into a river, and chased by his sidekick (The Bear and The Crow) and drifts over a waterfall.

Season 3

* (

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) - The family cat (Chobi) has had his tail stepped on one too many times and dreams of revenge. * (

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) - A magical girl and her doll must defeat an invading horde of

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. *"Okkakekko" ( Michael Arias:

) - A group of children run across fields and play with a giant scary robot. *"Project Omega" (

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) - As an alien force hurtles toward

headquarters in

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, the NHK building springs to life as an evangelion-transformer to battle the foe. * (

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: Madhouse) - A young girl gets up from bed and sleepily tries to awaken herself.

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