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Some anime air (in Japan) in a form like this, notably Risky☆Safety, Folktales From Japan and Oruchuban Ebichu, although the series they aired with are less notable. More common are the half-length episodes (about 13 minutes) which air back to back in a half-hour timeslot.
And Yet the Town Moves anime adaption features two thematically linked chapters of the manga per episode.
Anpanman:
- Nearly every episode follows the two story format, with the exception of a few half-hour special episodes. Because of the amount of characters in the franchise, the episodes are simply created by pairing up two characters (or a defined group and a separate character) and have them work off each other based on their personalities.
- Some of the theatrical shorts that accompanied the films from 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998 and 1999 are about three shorts or more.
Azumanga Daioh was broadcast as one five-minute episode per weekday, which were then stitched together into a half-hour Five Shorts form on Saturday.
Crayon Shin-chan usually runs the three episode format.
Dagashi Kashi: Season 1 adapts the manga's short, episodic chapters this way. Season 2 instead has a reduced runtime, leaving room for only one chapter's content per episode.
Doraemon uses the ABA format, with a mini segment in between each episode. Most dubs cut these mini segments out, making it Two Shorts, and some episodes are full length.
Dorohedoro, at least in terms of chapters adapted per episode, though the episodes are inconsistent in actually having separate segments for each chapter or merging them all into a single segment. Generally, even-numbered episodes have three segments (except episode 8, which had four), while odd-numbered ones have a single segment (except episode 9, which had the usual three).
The Dr. Slump anime television series adaptations both used the two shorts format, at least in the beginning of their runs on television. Both switched to the one full-length story format after about 20 episodes for time constraints.
Final Approach and W~Wish aired together in this manner.
Most of the Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu episodes were made up of two different stories.
Galaxy Angel after its first season (26 thirteen-minute individual episodes) had a 2 shorts format.
The Gintama anime would usually have one half-hour story per story per episode, although it used the Two Shorts format on occasions.
The anime adaptation of Goldfish Warning! used the two shorts format in every single episode.
Hoshi no Ko Poron used the 2-short formula, with each episode consisting of 2 short cartoons.
Jewelpet
- Jewelpet Sunshine uses the two shorts format in more than half its episodes.
- Jewelpet Magical Change uses two shorts in most episodes, canon to the plot, and at the end there's a very short segment detailing some Jewelpet's misadventure (so, AAB).
Kaguya-sama: Love is War adapts three chapters per episode in its anime adaptation, though certain episodes deviate to 2 or 4 depending on the context of the chapters covered.
Magical Pokaan follows a two-shorts form, save for the DVD-exclusive episodes, where the first and third are a single story each and the second is something closer to four shorts.
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, being a tribute to Western cartoons in many ways, follows this format.
- It sometimes deviates from it, like with the full-length episode 6.
Pokémon the Series usually has the episodes consist of a 30 minute story, but there have been a few episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The Series which consist of two eleven minute segments instead of a full-length story, which includes:
- "Splash, Dash, and Smash for the Crown! / Slowking's Crowning!"
- "Pikachu Translation Check... / Up to Your Neck!"
- "A Rollicking Roll… / Eyes on the Goal!"
The Red Cat Ramen anime uses the three shorts format, save for the first two episodes which have two stories each, and the fourth episode which had four segments.
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei's anime used this for a handful of episodes in the original series, with episodes 4, 5, 7 and 10 being two shorts. The first episode of Zoku, the second series, was two shorts before the rest of the season had three, which has persisted through the rest of the series with the exception of three episodes being two shorts again (Zoku episodes 9 and 11, and the bonus episode from the 2012 Blu-ray release) and the finale of Zan, the third series, being four shorts.
Sazae-san does the three shorts format.
School Rumble is a subversion. While the episodes are divided into three shorter ones (each with their own title, except for the season finales), they are all linked together in one overarching plot.
The anime version of Sgt. Frog usually followed a Two Shorts format.
Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō does the ABA format, with a live action segment featuring a costume Shimajiro being the B.
Squid Girl
Shizuku-chan does two stories per episode.
The 2009 Tamagotchi! anime has two 11-minute stories per episode. This changed to one 22-minute story per episode starting with episode 95, then changed back to the "two 11-minute stories" format in the fourth installment, GO-GO Tamagotchi!, where apart from the occasional 22-minute story the episode format remained like that for the rest of the series, with those 22-minute episodes being advertised as two-part episodes^note.
Thriller Restaurant
Motto To Love Ru
Urusei Yatsura began as a Two Shorts format, but was changed to a single half-hour story format for time constraints. It sometimes leads to confusion about how many episodes there are since the shows from this period may be counted as either one or two. The 2022 anime adaptation returns the Two Shorts format, though there can occasionally be episodes with a Three Shorts format or a half-hour episode with a single story.
Witch Watch has a mix of full-length 22-minute episodes, two 11-minute shorts, and three 7-minute shorts.
Yokai Watch has up to four segments an episode.

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