A woman's life in Tokyo doesn't build toward anything. It just happens, one shift at a time, one failed date bleeding into the next. The comedy lives in that drift, in how she narrates her own mediocrity with total deadpan honesty. Watch this if you want something that feels like overhearing a friend's life instead of being sold a story.

Ekoda-chan is a single woman living in Tokyo who drifts from one relationship to the next. She makes her living at a string of hostess clubs and similar workplaces, and her romantic and working life supply the material for the comedy. The short-form TV series adapts Yukari Takinami's four-panel manga and aired as part of NTV's Yuruani programme.