Peeping Life

A quick series, partly because it's only 10 episodes long and mostly because each episode is five minutes (including closing credits), "Peeping Life" is pretty adept at showing the nuances of Japanese people and how they speak. All the little verbal pauses, gestures, and polite redirects come through quite naturally even though the animation is clearly done with CG. Every episode starts in medias res, so it might take the viewer a little time to figure out what the heck is going on. But every five-minute dose never features more than two characters, which keeps things simple. Sometimes it is a little painful to watch becausethe characters find themselves in inane situations (or are, themselves, inane in one way or another). All in all, it's worth seeing at least a couple to admire the studio's ability to capture the essence of Japanese culture and human interaction via computer animation.