Candy Caries

One girl with zero self-control around sweets eats too many and grows a cavity that's alive, calls her 'Mama,' and starts rearranging her teeth like bedroom furniture. That's the premise of Candy Caries, and it's exactly as unhinged as it sounds. Ame is a kid who can't say no to candy, which would normally just mean a rough dentist visit. Instead, she ends up with Caries — a tiny, chaotic cavity creature living rent-free in her mouth, treating her molars like a personal apartment and occasionally hijacking her entire body. Caries has zero boundaries and all the energy of a toddler on a sugar high, while Ame is stuck playing the exhausted parent she never signed up to be. It's a weird little mother-daughter dynamic where the "daughter" is literally a dental disease. The whole thing is done in stop-motion by Tomoki Misato, the director behind Pui Pui Molcar, using this handmade world built from plastic board and acrylic that gives everything a tactile, craft-project feel. If you liked Pui Pui Molcar's offbeat charm or the candy-coated aesthetic of something like Yumeiro Patissiere, this hits a similar sweet spot — just way more chaotic. Wit Studio is producing, which is a pretty interesting pairing with Misato's style. It's a short-form slapstick comedy that leans fully into the absurd. Low commitment, high weirdness, genuinely creative animation. Pretty easy sell if you're into that kind of thing.