Studio Ghibli making fun of itself, knowing exactly how precious and ridiculous they look from the inside. Episode two's animation alone is worth the twenty minutes, the kind of moment where you watch the studio flex just to prove they can, then immediately laugh at their own showing off. This is what happens when artists get to make something with zero pressure and total creative freedom.

Ghibli made these two comedy shorts about daily goings-on at Giburi, an invented animation studio that is likely modeled in part on Ghibli itself. The name is written differently from Ghibli's and uses a hard 'gi' sound, as in 'give'. The first short aired during a television special about Ghibli, and the second played in cinemas together with The Cat Returns.