A girl too scared to ask for a place at the table gets one literally blown out of her nose. Booger Gal is stupid and perfect, the kind of absurd premise that only works because the emotional core is real: Hanako's isolation hits before the joke does. This is what happens when a film student realizes that sometimes the weirdest thing you can make is also the most human.

Hanako always looks on while the other children play, too shy to ask whether she can take part. One day a character called Booger Gal shoots out of her nose and helps steer her toward a new life. A comedy fantasy film, it was made as a 2022 graduate project in animation at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and it finds its humor in an absurd premise about a timid child and her unusual helper.