The cute cats and bright colors are a trap. Nekojiru Gekijou Jirujiru uses that dissonance like a weapon, packing genuine tragedy and graphic violence into 30-second intervals, each one designed to catch you laughing before it pulls the rug out. This is shock comedy that actually knows what it's doing, not just throwing gore at the screen for shock value, every death means something, every joke lands harder because you didn't see it coming from a show that looks this innocent. If you can stomach the whiplash between saccharine aesthetics and real morbidity, you're watching one of the boldest short-form experiments anime ever attempted.

Nekojiru Gekijou Jirujiru ORIGINAL is a 1999 collection of short comedy episodes with a streak of action, adapted from the comics of the late artist Nekojiru. It runs 27 episodes in total. Twenty-three of them are short animated segments that aired within the TV Asahi program Bokusho Mondai Boss Chara Ou, and the other four never went to broadcast.