Nobody expects a shogi tutorial to be funnier than actual comedies airing that season. Each episode takes one piece and builds an entire absurdist bit around it, treating a wooden horse or diagonal-moving bishop like it's the protagonist of its own three-minute masterpiece. The show knows shogi is impenetrable to most viewers, so instead of explaining tactics it just makes you laugh at a tiny wooden block doing something ridiculous. You finish all ten episodes understanding nothing about the actual game, remembering everything about the pieces themselves. It's educational comedy that works even if you actively hate board games.

Ugoku! Nya Shogi is a ten-episode comedy special built around the game of shogi. Each installment focuses on one of the game's pieces and teaches how it works, so viewers can pick up the basics one piece at a time. The humor keeps the lessons light, which suits anyone who has wanted to understand shogi but found the rules hard to approach.