Nobody talks about this one. Eizouken Mini distills what made the original show work into pure creative chaos, three kids riffing on animation itself, stripped down to the bone, no plot required. Each short is a love letter to the specific joy of making something from nothing, in a medium that doesn't care how small the canvas is. The animation gets weirder, looser, more playful than the series ever allowed itself to be. You watch a show about artists become a showcase for artists playing in real time. If you love Eizouken because it makes you want to create, these shorts will either destroy you with envy or light something up inside you that needs to start drawing right now.
Twelve super-deformed comedy shorts spun off from Eizouken, first shared on the franchise's official Twitter account. The chibi episodes were later collected and bundled with the Blu-ray box set of the main series. One of the shorts works as a recap, summarizing the events of the first four episodes of the main show in the same compact, cartoonish style.