This one lowers your heart rate. It's a manga artist's deadline hell rendered as comfort food: inking, screentones, an apartment full of paper, and Ichiro Kuga running on inheritance money and stubbornness because two younger siblings are counting on him. Then Shiori Goshiki pricks her finger on a needle at his desk and, by her family's custom, that's an engagement, and the show is honest enough to let both of them treat it like a real adult decision instead of a gag. Goshiki is the rare anime heroine written as considerate on purpose, forward about what she wants, no fanservice tax attached, and the starlight that leaks off her when she's overwhelmed does more emotional work than any confession scene. Fair warning: it moves at the speed of a work-in-progress page, and some episodes barely advance anything. But if you're past the age where love triangles feel urgent, two tired grownups splitting the rent and the chores is the fantasy.

Ichirou Kuga juggles manga deadlines and raising his two younger siblings on a tight budget after their father's death, renting out rooms in the apartment building he inherited while working as a shoujo manga artist. When his last two assistants leave to chase their own dreams, he is close to breaking and hires Shiori Goshiki, a strikingly capable newcomer. With her help the pair get through the crunch, and things start looking up. Then a strange supernatural accident happens between them, and Shiori suddenly announces they are engaged. There is something otherworldly about her, and Ichirou must now handle this odd new relationship while keeping up his drawing and caring for his family in a romantic comedy.