Five minutes at a time, this thing disarms you completely. Honoka is a 14-year-old who gets pushed around at school and doesn't believe in God, angels or devils, and the show's answer is to drop a devil baby into her bedroom and let cuteness do the arguing. Nothing much happens across 75 episodes, and that's the point: no arc to track, no stakes to brace for, just a timid kid slowly finding a spine because something tiny and horned needs her. The character designs are engineered at a molecular level to make you exhale. Reviewers keep reaching for Daa! Daa! Daa! and they're right, this is the same trick, downsized into bite-sized doses. Watch one after a day that went badly and you'll be four episodes deep before you notice you stopped scowling.

Honoka spends her days as a quiet middle schooler, constantly overlooked and pushed around by her classmates. She keeps her head down, skeptical of anything beyond the ordinary world. Orphaned young, the 14-year-old lives in the apartment of an aunt whose job keeps her away, and she longs for her loneliness to end. Her wish is answered: one morning she wakes to find a demon baby named Mao in her bed, and she suddenly becomes his surrogate mother. She does not have to manage alone. Sugisaki Shin, a strict but reliable classmate, steps in as the baby's dad, and while Honoka is at school, Mao is looked after at the Chibi Devil Nursery School by the clumsy Enchou-sensei and the gentle Itou-sensei. The result is a short-format supernatural slice-of-life fantasy about a lonely girl gaining an unusual family.