We all love to get wrapped up in an immersive, well-crafted anime series that goes on for days.

But when you’re burnt out on long-running series, or just don’t have time in your busy schedule to sit down for an entire episode, where do you turn when you need your daily anime fix?

The following 10 short anime prove that a show doesn’t have to take up your day to hook you in and leave you hungry for more.

1. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Episodes: 11

Group of friends were separated when one of them died in an accident.

Later on she comes back as a ghost trying to get into the heaven…  But to do that her friends must grant here a wish!

2. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

Episodes: 11

An apocalyptic look at the possibility of an earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater striking the Tokyo area.

Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yutaka at the start of summer vacation.

A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant

3. Eve no Jikan

Episodes: 6

Not too long in future androids have come into common usage, taking the androids for granted, humans treat them as if they were slaves and common everyday tools.

While all androids have AI and they think just like humans yet they can’t say a thing about it or else their safety is not guaranteed.

4. FLCL/Fooly Cooly

Episodes: 6

A 12 year old boy Naota, one day meets a strange woman riding a vespa and as soon as she appears, strange things start happening.

5. Zankyou no Terror

Episodes: 11

Tokyo has been decimated by a terrorist attack, and the only clue to culprit’s identity is a bizarre internet video.

While paranoia spreads, two mysterious children form Sphinx, a clandestine-entity determined to pull the trigger on this world!

6. Eden of the East

Episodes: 10

When Saki Morimi gets into trouble with the police while in Washington D.C. US.

she is helped by a Japanese man who calls himself, Takizawa Akira. He has only two things, a gun and a cell phone loaded with 8.2 billion yen in digital money.

7. Problem Children are Coming from Another World Aren’t They?

Episodes: 10

Three teens receive mysterious letters that transport them to another world.

This world is known as The “Little Garden”. Here, people use their beyond human gifts to compete in games that range from simple tasks to duels.

Sometimes even betting the very thing that brought them there.

8. Mnemosyne

Episodes: 6

RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne is a six-episode Japanese Anime series produced by Genco and Xebec , featuring grotesque and erotic visuals.

9. Black Rock Shooter

Episodes: 8

It isn’t the world you know. There wanders a girl with ebony clothes, jet black hair, and a strikingly blue glowing eye. Her name is Black Rock Shooter.

With a huge cannon in hand, she throws herself into a fierce battle.

10. Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei

Episodes: 11

One evening at a strange Ramen-Stand behind the Shimogamo Shrine, a lonely 3rd-year college student bumps into a man with an eggplant shaped head who calls himself a god of matrimony.

This anime is so fun to watch even though it has only 11 episodes!

(source:darkxhunter)