Nobody talks about this one. It's a show that exists purely to be weird in the most local, specific way possible, a love letter to one actual Japanese town that has zero reason to care if you're watching or not. The comedy doesn't build to anything. It just lives in the moment with these girls and whatever cryptid is hanging around Kashiwa that week, treating the mundane geography of a real place like it's the strangest setting anime has ever seen. If you've ever found humor in the absurd details of somewhere completely ordinary, this is what that feels like animated. It asks nothing of you except to laugh at the fact that this exists at all.

Chou Futsuu Toshi Kashiwa Densetsu is a surreal gag ONA set in Kashiwa, a real Japanese town. Schoolgirls attend class alongside a group of mysterious creatures, and the comedy leans into absurd fantasy while keeping one foot in the actual place. Material tied to the town and its events runs through the episodes, which give a loose, playful sense of what makes Kashiwa charming. The run is ten episodes.