Let's face it: Even with all of the avenues to catch a quick anime episode, be it on disc, on-demand, or streaming on sites like Crunchyroll, there are still times when it seems impossible to cram more animated bliss into the day. After all, it's tough to watch a 25-minute episode at the tail end of a lunch break.

The Bite-Sized Anime panel, headed by Rym and Scott from GeekNights, focused on short shows. By short, I mean "under five minutes long." The duo highlighted a number of features, from popular, to incredibly obscure. The full list of titles shown is as follows:

• Damekko Doubutsu
• Moegaku 5
• Miss Critical Moment
• Higepiyo
• DiGi Charat
• Charity's Daily Joke
• Furu Kappa
• Kogepan

I have to applaud the panelists' choices, as the selection of shows could have made a fun panel into something absolutely intolerable (Some shows could clear a room in their five-minute run times!). DiGi Charat seemed like a shoe-in, as did Higepiyo. Both are fairly popular titles that are tons of fun to watch.

However, the biggest surprise was probably the double-team of Miss Critical Moment and Moegaku 5. Miss Critical Moment is a 16-episode series that focuses on Kunyan, a woman who always finds herself at death's door. As the episode moves forward, Kunyan's condition gets progressively worse, all while a narrator gives a thorough scientific explanation of what's going on. The combination of the deadpan narrator and the over-the-top on screen action is hilarious. Unfortunately, as Ryn noted, the series is notoriously hard to acquire legally. "The only way we found this was as a DVD rip of a VHS copy that was fansubbed," he noted.

The second title, Moegaku 5, is just as deranged, and just as entertaining. Moegaku 5 is based on the Moetan line of English Workbooks. The series, which includes a short introduction by "Aya-oneesan" (Aya Hirano), focuses on Moe Tsukishima, a magical girl who helps foreign Otaku by teaching them various languages as she travels around Akihabara. The panelists described the show as a title made for "otaku who somehow managed to have a kid," so that they could get their mo— fix while the children learned something. They then proceeded to show the first episode, in which she teaches a panicked American (easily identified by his ten-gallon hat) Japanese, and receives a hilariously bad English lesson in return. The episode is peppered with random "English" exclamations, such as "Oh no!" and "Help me!" as well as butchered pronunciations of other basic English phrases.

The panel was both enlightening and tons of fun to attend. I hope that the duo holds it again next year, possibly with new and different examples of snack-sized shows.