With exaggerated characters and humorous dialogue, the goateed Afanti is a hero for all times. Afanti uses his clever wisdom to help the little people and make fools of the bad and greedy. He hates wrongdoers and has no qualms about playing rough when it's time to punish them. The character has long been a popular folk hero in Xinjiang and other Turkic areas. This 1979 animated series brings Afanti to life with stop time animation and puppets. The series won the Ministry of Culture's award for best cartoon in 1979 and was screened at the 1991 Chicago International Children's Film Festival.
Godzilla-kun spends time with his brothers Minilla and Little Godzilla and a girl befriends Shin Godzilla's second evolution, all while Hedoji and his grandson Hedochi trek through a seemingly endless wasteland. An entry for GEMSTONE's Creators Audition, a collaborative project between Toho Co., Ltd. and AlphaBoat in which Japanese artists and filmmakers competed in a challenge to create new works inspired by the Godzilla series. This short would be chosen as one of the winners, serving as a pilot to the Godziban web-series.
The Bite-Sized Adventures of Sam Sandwich is a Disney Junior short series. It follows the adventures of a superhero sandwich named Sam and his sidekick Salad Lad, as they battle an assortment of villains who exist for no other reason than to give kids junk food.