It hands you an apocalypse and then refuses to make a spectacle of it. The Great Summon already happened twenty years back, a third of humanity is already gone, devils and monsters already live here, and what you actually get is Tamura Fukutaro, a painter, hauling his stuff into a rundown apartment house and learning which neighbors aren't human. That's the trick: the war between gods, devils and The Central plays out as tenant problems, doorway conversations, small favors owed between people sharing a roof. One episode, no arc to binge, just a mood that sits in your chest longer than most twelve-episode runs. It's slept on because it never raises its voice, and the people who found it keep quietly telling other people to find it. Come for the demons, stay because the painter unpacks his brushes like the world didn't end.

More than twenty years ago, an evil summoner carried out the Great Summon. A third of the human race died, and devils and monsters poured into the Earth. Painter Tamura Fukutaro moves into Ashiaraiyashiki, a mysterious apartment building where humans live side by side with demons and mythical creatures, and soon finds himself mixed up in the problems of his non-human neighbors. His arrival marks the start of a harsh struggle among gods, devils and the ruling power known as The Central. In this single OVA, Fukutaro invites some of his odd friends over to share a hot pot meal in his room. The episode adapts Minagi Tokuichi's action fantasy manga and came packaged with the limited first edition of its tenth volume.