A drunk samurai and a Chinese martial artist wandering Edo-period Japan, solving problems that don't matter but somehow do anyway. The animation stays sharp through every fight because the show respects the craft of swordplay, even when Ran is three cups deep and stumbling. This is a show that knows comfort is its own kind of story, no grand destiny, no apocalypse waiting, just two people moving through the world and leaving it slightly better than they found it.

Ran is a wandering samurai woman in Japan's Edo period, and she is as good with a katana as she is fond of sake. Along the way she picks up a companion: a Chinese martial artist who goes by the name Lady Meow of the Iron Cat Fist. The 13 episodes stand mostly on their own, each a short tale of the two women's travels, and the series mixes adventure with comedy.