Frank exists in a space where logic breaks and meaning pools in the margins. Each episode arrives in a different visual language, cel bleeding into CGI, stop-motion colliding with sand, because no single technique could hold what Woodring is actually doing. You watch a master cartoonist hand his wordless universe to nine different animators and musicians, and somehow they all speak the same strange dialect. The result is not adaptation. It's permission, to see the same impossible world through nine pairs of eyes, none of them wrong. This OVA moves like a dream that knows it's a dream, and the animation techniques are the proof.

Nine animated shorts adapt stories from Jim Woodring's Frank comics, each made by one of eight filmmakers working together with Woodring and with musicians from Japan and the United States. The visual methods change from piece to piece: 3DCG, traditional cel work, stop-motion, clay, paper craft, and sand and iron sand animation all appear. What ties them together is how each creator reimagines the world of Frank through a personal lens. Viewers can pick either the original soundtrack or a newly composed one for each short, with contributors including Bill Frisell, Dame Darcy and Woodring himself.