It puts a prefectural tourism pamphlet in your lap and dares you to be bored, then wins you over in under five minutes an episode. Yoshida-kun, the Eagle Talon franchise's designated nobody, gets handed his own travel program and spends it wandering the Shimane of the past, one famous spot per episode, like a man determined to make his hometown matter. There is no spectacle here, nothing at stake, no theme heavier than local pride, and that is precisely the joke and precisely the comfort. Nine episodes of a guy from a prefecture nobody can locate on a map explaining exactly why you should locate it. Fans who slept on this missed the funniest sightseeing guide ever quietly attached to a cartoon about a secret society. Watch it once and you will genuinely want to go to Shimane, which was the plan all along.

A short-form comedy spinoff of Himitsukessha Taka no Tsume, these episodes send Yoshida-kun back through his past in Shimane Prefecture, the part of western Japan where he was born. The story is framed by a present-day Yoshida-kun flipping through a photo album with the Chancellor and recalling his younger years, including how he first met Phillip, his best friend long before the franchise began. Doubling as a sightseeing guide, every episode spotlights one well-known place in the prefecture.