Kaze no Matasaburou

After watching just about all of the OVAs released in the 1980s, I rated (or plan to rate) all of these OVAs a 7 or above and consider them to be the best of the bunch.

I'm trying to keep the characters as young as possible because these works tend to present more imaginative, even incoherent, segments, often due to a limited perspective or understanding of the world inhabited by the characters. Typically, this entails engagement with the unknown or unfamiliar or scenarios that are not fully grasped, and tapping into that feeling is easiest with children. This can include ordinary life expressed in an abstract way in Googuri Googuri, the augmented reality of Dennou Coil, or the dream world of Little Nemo. Initially, the list was meant to catalog independent short films with imaginative transitions, as I feel these capture the tone of what I'm going for best, but there aren't enough good ones that meet my criteria.

Former candidates and removed entries:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/2290/Superflat_Monogram
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1979/Tobira_wo_Akete_1995
https://myanimelist.net/anime/8333/Kodomo_no_Keijijougaku
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34634/Sakana_no_Iu_Koto_wo_Kiku
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3760/Grimm_Douwa__Kin_no_Tori

All Anime based of works of Kenji Miyazawa classified according to the year they were published.

A list consisting of anime that convey a sense or feeling of what childhood is or could be. It's supposed to be somewhat of a childhood/nostalgia archive in it's entirety.

Note: The list is about childhood, not anime we watched when we were children. It does not necessarily contain your typical Miyazaki/Ghibli movies nor is it child-friendly by every means.