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“Four-minute animated short depicts a rescued delinquent and her savior's lifelong love, told through pendulum-like highs and lows.”
Pendulum
振り子
7.48
2,190 rank · 21,134 viewers · 66 favorites
Drama
Romance
Music
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Synopsis
Four-minute animated short depicts a rescued delinquent and her savior's lifelong love, told through pendulum-like highs and lows.
Furiko, meaning "pendulum," shows the highs and lows of a family of two—a high schooler, and his future wife, whom he rescues from delinquents. From the brilliant mind of comedian Tekken, comes a heartwarming story of a couple overcoming their differences even as they struggle through life. Not a moment goes by without meaning or expression in these four and a half minutes.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 12 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 12 viewers settled on.
91%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 4.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Jan 2013 → Aug 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “In many instances in the anime medium, different short works with low budget go unnoticed which is and a damn shame because many of them are good with some better than others. *cough shitcom....”
- 10 “Pendulum not trying to embellish reality, she is represented as. This beautiful and sad animated flip-book is like a drama, all the emotions spend. Also very tragic. One can easily immerse in the...”
- 7 “You see that, right? It is your life through the eyes of a man, it is the life that happens without realizing, leaving us wounds entwined between moments of happiness that we pass by. This short...”
Verbosity
Short · 42%
Medium · 58%
Long · 0%
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A Special Production
- Format 1 × 4′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 04m all episodes
- Aired Mar 2012 – ongoing
- Source Special media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-6992 catalog