Nobody expects a magical girl show to be about two girls who just... live next to each other and are genuinely weird friends. The Demon Girl Next Door takes that premise seriously enough to make a full series out of it, then these minis shrink it down to pure distilled comfort: Yuuko's broke-demon chaos and Momo's obsessive normalcy bouncing off each other in thirty-six tiny moments that somehow hit harder than the actual plot episodes. You watch because the characters feel like people you actually know, not because anything dramatic happens. The joke is that there is no joke, just a girl and her neighbor being exactly as strange as they naturally are, forever.

The Demon Girl Next Door Minis is a set of short comedy clips spun off from Machikado Mazoku, with the cast redrawn in a small, chibi style. The 36 episodes were first posted on the anime's official Twitter account and were later included with the Blu-ray and DVD releases. The shorts keep the main series' mix of comedy, fantasy, magical girl elements and everyday slice of life.