Anime: Tansu Warashi.

* An original short selected as part of JAniCA's Young Animator Training Project.

Noeru is a young woman with an uninteresting job living alone in a worn apartment in a big city. One day, without notice, her mother sends her an old and bulky chest of drawers. Not exactly the most welcome piece of furniture for Noeru's small room!

The next day, as Noeru comes back from work, she finds a plump little boy sitting on the floor and peacefully munching a pack of rice crackers. The next morning, she wakes up to the delicious smell of breakfast waiting for her on the table... but she does not recall of having cooked anything! And even the kitchen is all clean and tidy instead of the usual mess. And are there not two weird kids in her room now?

Noeru has just met the drawer hobs... but who are they, and why on earth are they in her apartment, anyway?

Source: Production I.G

Note: All four shorts (this anime, Bannou Yasai Ninninman, Ojii-san no Lamp and Kizuna Ichigeki) were originally screened together in eight film theatres as part of a roadshow held between March 5 and 11, 2011, and then shown weekly between March 6 and 27, 2011 as part of MBS' TV schedule. Tansu Warashi. was the last to air on March 27, 2011.