Interracial relationships in flash animation

Four or five years ago, I stumbled upon this disgustingly cute flash animation (link to high quality New Grounds flash version, modern youtube version above) and then immediately forgot about it. Just recently, while reading through my multiple anime blogs, I discovered this post that revealed, to my delight that the original creator made sequels! In fact, the second chapter/episode/step titled "Cake Dance" was published on New Grounds and other flash websites as long ago as two to three years ago. Just recently Sambakza (the creator) has just released the third step "Doki&Nabi" in the series with plans to make a fourth and final step.

The animation in all three videos remains crisp, smooth, and fluid through some surprisingly complex movements (Nabi spins around a lot) and the adorable character designs manage to be both oh-so-cute and minimalist without becoming too crude. The soundtrack is pretty nice too! However, the supreme achievement these simple flash animations is how the creator manages to create a narrative with zany humor, amusing characters, conflict, and even some sentimental romantic emotions with almost no text or dialogue. Perhaps I am simply just a very visual person as poetry has virtually no appeal to me, but I find this absolutely amazing. The way Sambakza manages to use only universal visual symbols and signals, without the aid of any mellifluous prose, to grasp emotion is simple yet sublime.

Another good example of this would be the unrelated video below "Kiwi". Unlike "There she is!!", "Kiwi" is melancholy, complex, and deceptively cute. Here the artist, Dony Permedi, uses less than three minutes with uses absolutely no text to convey a complex character with dreams and determination. The shocking ending even provides a cathartic moment that reveals the costs of ambition.