You're watching people fall in love with language itself, one five-seven-five beat at a time. The show treats syllable-counting like the most natural high in the world, and it's contagious, suddenly you're noticing rhythm in sentences you'd normally skip past. Four episodes that feel like sitting in a warm room while someone teaches you how to hear poetry in everyday speech.
Masaoka Azuki is full of energy, and she persuades her far calmer best friend, Kobayashi Matcha, to enter a haiku-writing competition. Yosano Yuzu badly wants to join their tight-knit circle, so she helps the pair film their haiku and set it to music and dance. The four-episode music and slice-of-life short adapts the Project 575 games for PlayStation Vita and iOS, which let players write songs in the 5-7-5 syllable pattern of haiku and tanka.