Some anime can be watched for more than one month, so sometimes you want something light just for the evening. Catch a selection of short anime that will take no more than an hour 👏🏻

Anime, like films with series, can run from a couple of minutes to thousands of hours (hello, One Piece and Naruto!). Sometimes you don’t want to spend so much time even on masterpieces or you can’t, and here short anime come to the rescue. You can watch them literally in an evening, so choose what is closest to you and get into the less popular, but no less cool, products of Japanese pop culture 👇🏻

What are the 8 interesting short anime to watch before bed?

Blade Runner: Blackout 2022 (2017)
Duration:15 minutes

We can say that this is a prequel to the anime Blade Runner 2049. Here you will hear the comments of Denis Villeneuve, who became the director of the picture. The plot tells about replicants created to complete missions of any complexity. Especially suitable for fans of dark noir, hard scenes without vanilla aftertaste and hopes for a happy ending. An interesting embodiment of the fear that someday robots will be able to become so independent that they will begin to resist humanity.

Go Carolina (2018)
Duration:3 minutes

Only 3 minutes of your time, but a very good reason to think about important things before going to bed. An anime documentary about professional shogi player Karolina Styczynska briefly tells about her career in a foreign country, where she became the first foreign woman to succeed in this sport. After watching, you will definitely be motivated for new achievements and set the alarm clock early to start implementation as soon as possible ✊🏻

Into the forest where the fireflies flicker (2011)
Duration:45 minutes

The famous cute anime about a girl named Hotaru who gets lost in a magical forest and meets Gin, a mysterious masked boy. It seems to her that he is just a forest spirit, and that is why you cannot touch him, so that he does not disappear from contact with a person. On the plus side, he helped her find her way home. Of the minuses – now Hotaru cannot forget him …

Property (2012)
Duration:14 minutes

Let’s go right away with trump cards: the picture was nominated for an Oscar in 2014. It tells the story of a wanderer who got lost and took refuge in a temple. He decides to spend the night there, but at night the space begins to transform and youkai appear in it. Especially suitable for fans of secret meanings, abstractions and everything where the meaning needs to be collected piece by piece 🤏🏻

Summer Ghost (2021)
Duration:40 minutes

According to an old legend, when people launch fireworks, the ghost of a mysterious girl appears in the sky. Three enthusiasts and lovers of the supernatural decide to test this theory in order to ask the spirit how they can live this life and what to do next. But can she give them the answers they’ve come all this way for? 🤷🏻‍♀️

She and Her Cat: Everything Flows (2016)
Duration:32 minutes

A modernized remake of Makoto Shinkai’s anime “She and Her Cat”, which shows the story of a simple student girl and her cat (predictably). She recently moved in with a friend and is trying to find a job, but life is not as easy as it seems to us in her youth. She shares her experiences and thoughts with her four-legged friend, finding support in him 💖

Harmony (2014)
Duration:25 minutes

An interesting psychological picture of whether two different inner worlds of a person can come together, given the fact that everyone has his own and few can sacrifice personal for someone else’s. Absolutely nothing connects two schoolgirls, but something tells them that they could become friends very much … But is it so? 🤔

Someone’s Look (2013)
Duration:6 minutes

Finally, the cutest short film that you can watch while waiting for the bus. A little sad, but no less bright story, remind you that you should always appreciate your loved ones in the moment and take care of your family while it is still with you. Keep a handkerchief close 💔