A ten-year-old running a diner while her yakuza father sits unemployed at home sounds like a cry for help. Instead it's the funniest thing you'll watch this year, built entirely on the fact that Chie refuses to let her life be tragic. Osaka doesn't apologize for being messy, and neither does she, and that's where the entire show lives.

Ten-year-old Chie runs the grilled meat restaurant her family owns in Osaka, even though she is still in elementary school. Her father is an unemployed yakuza who gambles instead of holding a job, and her mother, fed up with his ways, has walked out. That leaves Chie living with her father and keeping the business going herself. Her situation could easily read as grim, yet the story plays mostly as warmhearted comedy, blending laughs with slice-of-life drama in its Osaka setting.