Nobody talks about this one. A grandmother in a quiet Tokyo apartment becomes the center of a show that has no plot, no crisis, no reason to exist except that watching her move through ordinary days is enough. The comedy doesn't announce itself, it lives in the space between what people say and what they actually mean, in the small adjustments of daily life that feel true the moment you see them. This is what comfort television actually is: not sentimental, not trying to heal you, just present with you in the slowness of living. If you need a show that asks nothing of you except attention, this one rewards it completely.
Hitotsuboshi-ke no Ultra Baasan is a 1982 comedy and slice of life TV.