This show builds a world small enough to fit in your palm and somehow makes it feel like the only place that matters. Every episode is an errand, a meal, a conversation, a walk through the forest, nothing happens and everything happens. You watch two girls who are nine centimeters tall live with more intention and presence than most characters who get twenty-six episodes to prove themselves. The show moves at the speed of someone picking a mushroom or mending a umbrella, not the speed of plot. By episode three you stop waiting for something to happen and realize something has been happening the entire time: you've been learning how to pay attention.

Two tiny women, only nine centimeters tall, share a house built into a tree deep in a green forest. Hakumei is an energetic, tomboyish carpenter and Mikochi is a calm, feminine tailor, and despite their differences they get along well. In their world of miniature people and gods, they ride on insects and birds and make umbrellas from leaves. Their days are spent working, heading out on sightseeing trips and shopping at Tsumiki Marketplace by the sea, and along the way they befriend talking woodland animals like Iwashi the Weasel and fellow small folk such as the singer Konju and the inventor Sen. This is quiet, gentle fantasy slice of life, made for viewers who want a calm stay in a fairy tale world.