Pui Pui Molcar is one of the best anime of recent years and you are missing out on it. Some of the ratings and reviews might be at least partially steeped in irony due to the weird memetic following works like this Bananya and the 2017 CGI Pingu reboot received. However Molcar is sincerely one of the most charming creative and downright surreal anime of recent years. The best part is that you can literally watch all of it in under half an hour. So what makes Molcar so fun? Simple: its a surreal adorable comedy. Each episode is only 2 minutes so the show relies on rapid fire joke after rapid fire joke to paint a strange and fun bitesized story. While the first of the anime consists of cute skits involving the molcars in order to flesh out this strange world of guinea pig cars driven by tiny toy people the rest go in different directions. Zombie parodies spy movie parodies a racing episode with veggie boost powerups a fucking Back to the Future type episode. Each episode provides a radically different story from the last so that nothing gets stale. The sheer variety on display is staggering. Molcar is able to tell all of its stories without a single line of dialogue. The sound effects movements and expressions show it all and do so with such highoctane energy. How else can the show go from an episode about a guy trying to make a romantic gesture in the midst of an ice storm to one where a superhero fantasizing molcar gets an entire character arc stemming from receiving unwarranted magical girl customizations back to back? How else can each of these stories still sell the emotions they wish to convey while being gutbustingly hilarious and almost sickeningly adorable? Each of the cars have their own distinct simple personalities that are as expressive as they need to be for these gags and stories to work as do the oneoff human characters. This show would be infinitely harder to sell if not for the stopmotion feltdoll animation for the molcars themselves and the adorable noises they make. The way they integrate the felt with the props and other stopmotion elements as well as the occasional 2D or liveaction element adds to each of the gags. Instances like the molcars boosting during the racing episode or the magical girl decals reacting to whatever the hell is happening in that particular episode exemplify this. It gets even funnier once you start seeing actual people and cats reduced to tiny figurines or when an actual hamster interacts with the felt molcars. Its the kind of cutesy multimedia production that you just dont see very often and that proves to be a testament to just how much fun quirky stopmotion projects can be. Theres really not much else that can be said about Molcar beyond just rambling into reviewpadding digressions about stuff the Akira drift in episode 9 being followed up by an Akira parody poster in episode 10. Its setting and worldbuilding is as strange as its references and parodies are eclectic. It has an insane amount of energy as well as a joke per minute ratio that gives early Spongebob a run for its money. Pui Pui Molcar is quirky adorable hilarious and unlike any other anime youll probably see for a good while. The styles present here may not be everyones cup of tea but with only 2 minutes per episode and a variety of cute jokes and stories presented in each it makes for a wonderful comfort show. Its really as simple as that so go out there and have some fun why dontcha?