Mari doesn't want these vegetable sprites haunting her, but they're not going anywhere until she stops choking down her food like it's poison. The movie treats her disgust as real, not something to laugh at, then lets her discover these three aren't punishments, they're just trying to help. By the end you're rooting for a kid and three talking peppers to figure it out together, and that's exactly enough.

Mari hates vegetables and milk so much that her nightmares are full of being made to eat them. One day at school, her class is set the goal of leaving nothing on their lunch plates, so she forces down carrots, peppers and milk and faints from the shock. When she comes to in the nurse's office, three food sprites greet her: Ninninman, Piman and Milk. They show up only when she eats her vegetables and drinks her milk, and Mari is far from thrilled to have her least favorite foods following her around. Can these odd spirits help her understand the value of friendship, and maybe get her to clean her plate? The comedic supernatural short was made under JAniCA's Young Animator Training Project.