This isn't the main timeline, and it doesn't pretend to be, it's permission to watch Hanako and Nene just exist together without the world ending. The art stays gorgeous, the character focus sharpens into moments that matter, and four episodes is exactly long enough to remember why you liked these two in the first place. If you're watching the main series for plot, this is the palate cleanser that makes you love them as people instead.

Hanako-kun, a spirit, and his human assistant Nene Yashiro, a first-year student at Kamome Academy, work to keep the peace between supernatural forces and the students around them. When they are not busy holding the living and spirit worlds in balance, this short follow-up to Houkago Shounen Hanako-kun asks how the pair fill their time after classes let out. Built from brief episodes, it mixes comedy, slice of life and the supernatural, drawing on the supernatural comedy manga by Aida Iro.