Nobody talks about this one. A spirit living as the youngest of three siblings in 90s rural Japan sounds like setup for tragedy, but instead it's just... life. Mundane mornings, sibling arguments that go nowhere, the kind of quiet where you notice things. The show doesn't explain why he's a spirit or make it matter. It just lets him be part of the family, same as anyone else. That's the whole point. By episode ten you stop wondering about the supernatural angle entirely, because you're too busy watching three kids exist in a place that feels real, in a time that's already gone.

The Haruba family has three children, and the youngest son, who is the lead, hides an unusual truth: he is really a spirit. Episodes follow the everyday life of this remarkable household against a nostalgic Japanese setting, mixing gentle comedy with slice-of-life warmth and a supernatural twist. The format is short episodes, forty-five of them in all, first aired in 1998.