She and her Cat It was like 3 minutes long, but it was a beautiful story.

Originally Posted by DS_owl

She and her Cat It was like 3 minutes long, but it was a beautiful story.

I remember that! It was either on the Voices of a Distant Star or A Place Promised in our Early Days disc. I made some people watch the entire DVD just so we could watch She an Her Cat.

Other then that I've seen a few 2-3 episode shows that have already been listed. Dragon Half, The Samurai, Twin Signal, Clamp in Wonderland, Animation Runner Kuromi, Assemble Insert, Munto, ect... (I like looking for and watching older shows with netflix)

Originally Posted by HikariKuro

FLCL Its only six episodes of wacky hyperactive fun!

Shortest anime I have ever seen. There are only two books!

hmm..... the shortest i've ever watched was Busou Renkin..... 26 eps.... its like bleach but AWESOMER

For me it would also be FLCL but it was an awesome anime, once you get by all the perverseness it has a very nice story.

Shinesmen : 2 episodes...the manga series was a lot longer....

also

Angel Santuary only made it to 2 episodes...I wish they made more...

RG Veda Clamps first manga made it to 2 episodes.....it was shut down....

such great animes not completed.

I watched the Read or Die OVA, which has 3 episodes.
Other than movies, that's as short as I've gotten.
Hetalia Axis Powers is pretty good.
That has 30 some episodes, but the episodes are 5 minutes long.

Baccano! has become one of my favorites and had a brisk run of 16 episodes.

Tales of Symphonia OVA part 1 had only 4.

Good stuff!

FLCL, but the Original Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei was really short, Trigun can be done in one weekend of you're determined :)

Originally Posted by Vercingetorix

I don't watch anime anymore but back in the time that I did the shortest I knew of was called <forgot the first part> hide and seek. It played on adult swim for Halloween. It was one episode long. But it was a WHILE back. Before I was in high school. (I'm in collage now so...xD)

I think it was called Kakurenbo hide and seek. I heard that one was okay.

If the shortest series I've seen was Furi Kuri. All the others were movies. In order, those were: The Blood+ movie, Ghost in the shell (the movie, not stand alone complex), and Bleach: Memories of Nobody.

Try anime movies, like paprika.

If its a series you want there was also something called Jing: King of Bandats I thought that was pretty short the box set only has three disk with three to four episodes on it.

@kayxx, by furi kuri... is that the same as fooli cooli in english? That was what, a 4 part series? Crazy funny too.

Well, I know on YouTube there are some animes that are short. Here's some of them that I've found and/or watched:

Baldr Force EXE (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Black Blood Brothers (haven't watched but it's only 2 eps)
Burst Angel (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
The Count of Monte Cristo: Gankutsuou (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Devil May Cry (haven't watched but it's only 2 eps)
Gatchaman (haven't watched but it's only 3 eps)
Glass Fleet (i've seen that and I liked it. it's only 4 eps)
Heat Guy J (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Jinki: Extend (haven't watched but it's only 2 eps)
Kiddy Grade (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Magical Play (haven't watched but it's only 5 eps)
Moon Phase (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Murder Princess (haven't watched but it's ony 1 ep)
Nabari No Ou (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Sasami: Magical Girls Club (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
School Rumble (haven't watched but it's ony 4 eps)
School Rumble Extra Class (haven't watched...but from what it looks like you have to watch the School Rumble second Semester before this...this one only has 2 eps)
Shuffle (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Slayers (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Slayers Next (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)
Suzuka (haven't watched but it's only 4 eps)

These are the only ones that I found at YouTube. There are probably others but I'd have to do a lot of research for them. Some of them you might be into...others you may not. But, here is the list I found.

the shortest anime ive ever watched was Elfen Lied and it was like 13 episodes but soooo worth it

Anime that are broadcast on TV are usually in sets of 13 episodes -- I think that's the season length in Japan. OVA/OAV's are a good bet for short anime, or actually films. Have you seen Toki wo Kakero Shoujo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)? It's amazing. I also recommend Five Centimeters per Second, which is gorgeous, though it's very slow-paced.