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Mentality. Both Pretending to Forget and The Third Heart seem to focus on mentality of individuals, they seem very depressing and have their own way of going around to tell such a case. I would recommend both but Pretending to Forget is less time-efficient than Third Heart. Still, good stuff to sit through tho. 

Beastars and Pretending to forget do not match with storytelling however, the two are very similar in the presentation and execution of their stories. They both go around and mix in scenes with cut sections showing multiple actions in one go, or playing them out as if they were part of a manga panel. Both mix in monologuing in multiple occurrences too, sometimes levelling onto a more abstract state. Whilst Beastars is a drama based on animal inequality, Pretending to forget is more psychological with it focusing on mental illness. Would recommend it as a jump into new genres. 

An artist's troubles. Both Mudai and Pretending to forget give a story based on an artist of some kind of life troubles and the downsides and lessons it can bring forward. Whilst Mudai is about art can incapacitate one, Pretending to forget is about the mental illness of an individual. Mudai is a music video in comparison to the short that is Pretending to forget. Good time-efficient shorts. 

Presentation. Furiko and Pretending to forget both follow this convention of using little detail presented to snowball into greatly enhancing the experience that follows. Furiko does this with a pendulum bob camera being the personification and motif of time and how it never stopping, shows time never stopping as well. Pretending to forget does this with voicing, simplicity, and more to show a lifeless, dull state, interesting to watch regardless. Both are good shorts that take up a total time of ~17 mins. Time-efficient, but has its selling points.