It's over before you can decide what you just watched, and then you want it again. A green blob of a pig with eyes too big for its body, drawn with the kind of weight and squash you only get when Miyazaki and the Ghibli crew are aiming an entire studio's craft at a few seconds of station filler for NTV. The title is the whole joke: nobody, creators included, can tell you what species this thing is, and the animation refuses to explain itself. There's no plot to spoil, no stakes, just line, movement, and those enormous blinking eyes doing all the work. That's the flex. A network ident with more personality than most seasons, and proof that people who care about drawing will pour it into anything, even a mascot nobody asked for.

A peculiar little green pig with enormous eyes stars in this short television advertising spot. Its name, Nandarou, suggests that even the people who made it could not say what sort of creature it was meant to be. That uncertainty did not hold it back: Nihon TV picked the odd character to serve as the station's mascot. A brief comedy special built around one strange, wide-eyed design.