CAVE (Character Animation Viewer for Everyone) is an ascii animation viewer. It uses (n)curses for it's interface so you'll need to have those libraries installed. It currently has the following features:

• frame stepping
• scrolling for frames larger than screen
• fps adjustment and frame cueing
• supports multiple files and file reloading
• looping
• play in reverse
• frame marking
• screensaver with file shuffle and timeout adjustment
• fullscreen toggle
• change foreground and background colors
• comprehensive status bar
• builtin help
• supports gzipped compressed files
• extended regular expressions for frame deliminators
• support for per-frame delays
• autodetect position of frame deliminator