A succession of disconnected moments that refuse to cohere into meaning, each one quietly absurd before it dissolves into the next. The animation is deliberately crude, almost hostile to comfort. You're watching someone think on screen in 1977, not trying to entertain you, trying to show you what happens when narrative breaks down and you have to sit with the pieces anyway.

Manga is a brief film from animator Yoji Kuri, an experimental piece made for laughs. It runs as a single short work, with its comedy delivered through an unconventional animated style rather than a standard feature format.