Short-form

The term short-form usually refers to anime with episodes that have runtimes less than the traditional 20+ minute runtime (usually 24 min) designed to fit in a roughtly half hour time slot. It generally means the episodes are less that 15 minutes long, but typically 12 minutes or less. Common short-form runtime lengths are 7 min, 5 min, 4 min, and 3 min.

Examples of short-form anime

 * Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to - 13 min episodes
 * Tonari no Seki-kun - 7 min episodes
 * Hetalia: Axis Powers - 5 min episodes
 * Super Seisyun Brothers - 4 min episodes
 * Heya CampΔ - 3.5 min episodes; a spinoff of the main anime series, Laid-Back CampΔ
 * Encouragement of Climb - 3 min episodes
 * Ketsuekigata-kun! - 2 min episodes