(SPOT.ph) Ah, anime. If you've ever found yourself absolutely obsessed with a long-running series, investing hours of your life watching, we feel you. Or if the thought of promising yourself to a single title for that long scares you, we also feel you. So if you ever feel the second way again, we round up a few short-running titles so worth the watch. Best part? They're all on Netflix. You don't even have to worry about commitment when it comes to these animes—rest assured that they won't keep you tied down in one place for too long.
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You can finish these anime series on Netflix in one sitting:
Erased
It's time to put on your detective hats once you decide to watch this mystery-thriller animated series with only 12 episodes. You'll join Satoru Fujinuma as he goes back in time via an ability called "Revival," specifically weeks before a series of kidnappings in his hometown started. Fujinuma, who is back in his younger self, is determined to save his friends from disappearing and also prevent his mother's death from happening in his present time. This series will put your deductive skills to the test. The live adaptation series is available to stream on Netflix, too.
The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited
Young detective Haru Kato's life is turned upside down by Daisuke Kambe's—the millionaire detective in question—transfer to the Modern Crime Prevention Task Force, where they are made to be partners. Despite having contrasting personalities and different ways, the unlikely two make a great tandem when it comes to solving mysterious crimes and serious business. It has 12 episodes in total.
A Place Further Than The Universe
If you're searching for a sign to do some traveling, look to A Place Further Than The Universe—no pun intended—where four girls, including second-year high school Mari Tamaki who wants to do something big for once in her life, embark on an adventure in Antarctica.
Blue Period
Watching this 12-episode slice-of-life series about art will definitely strike a chord within artists, especially those aspiring ones. Blue Period follows listless Yatora Yaguchi whose heart is awakened after seeing a classmate's painting. He gets inspired to dive deep straight into the harsh and yet beautiful world of art. You will be able to pick up a thing or two from watching Blue Period—either a push or loads of motivation to last you a lifetime.
Toradora!
Ryuji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka are strangers-turned-accomplices-turned-good friends who made an arrangement to help each other confess their love to their crushes (who is each other's respective best friend). Everything is going according to plan in this feel-good, rom-com series... well... not until something more blossoms between them.
Kotaro Lives Alone
Warning: "Major major" feels ahead, so you might want to ready a box of tissues by your side. This wholesome, slice-of-life 10-episode series follows four-year-old cute Kotaro Sato's life as he lives by himself. His odd bunch of neighbors at Shimizu Apartments, whose hearts he has touched one way or another, become his found family. You'll want to protect Kotaro at all costs while watching it, we guarantee you.
High-Rise Invasion
If you like watching survival and death games—those along the veins of Alice in Borderland or the popular Korean Netflix series Squid Game, even—then you'd like High-Rise Invasion. You'll get to see high schooler Yuri Honjo fight for her life when she is transported into a world full of high-rise buildings with mysterious masked figures out to kill her. She eventually finds out that she is not alone and that there are others like her in the same situation, including her brother.
Violet Evergarden
This fantasy-slash-drama series follows Violet Evergarden's life after The Great War—where she was raised and trained to become a soldier—where she is now an "Auto Memory Doll" who helps people put their thoughts and feelings into words. If 13 episodes are still too much for you, Violet Evergarden has a movie available to stream on Netflix.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Ah, puberty. We've all been—or are going to be, still are—there. High schoolers Mai Sakurajima and Sakuta Azusagawa are no exception, except that this isn't the usual thing but rather an extraordinary and supernatural phenomenon called "Adolescence Syndrome" that they, with three more others, are going through. Case in point: Mai, who is a well-known actress, becomes invisible to other people except for Sakuta. Together, they find a way to solve their situation.
Spy x Family
No one seems able to get enough of this family of three. The comedy, wholesome and feel-good series about a spy, a skilled assassin, and one very cute telepath who pretends to be one completely normal family for a mission recently concluded on June 25 so now's the best time to join the well-deserved hype train.
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