A pretentious calligrapher exiled to a rural island becomes genuinely happy there, and the show refuses to make that ironic. The comedy lands because these characters are real people who like each other, not punchlines waiting to happen. By episode three you stop waiting for the plot to arrive and realize the point was always just watching someone learn to breathe.
Seishuu Handa is a gifted young calligrapher with one fatal flaw: his ego. When a veteran dismisses his award-winning work as unoriginal, Seishuu loses his temper, and the fallout is serious. As punishment, and to push him toward some self-reflection, his father sends him away from Tokyo to the remote Goto Islands off the western coast of Kyushu. There he is supposed to find fresh inspiration and a style that is truly his own. Peace and quiet prove hard to come by. Rowdy children led by the lively Naru Kotoishi, fujoshi middle schoolers and spirited old men keep bursting into his house. His nosy neighbors cannot leave him alone, and along the way the proud artist learns far more than he bargained for in this gentle slice-of-life story.
