It slips past your guard because it never raises its voice. Three shorts, one girl named Mii, and a few plain questions about her mind, her body, and the life she is supposed to want, and instead of answering them the show just lets her drift off into a daydream. This is the #BeyondGender project in anime form, supervised by people who actually teach developmental psychology, gender theory and sex education, which is exactly why it never lectures you. Nobody transforms, nobody delivers a speech about what masculinity or femininity is supposed to mean. Mii just wonders out loud, and somewhere in those few minutes you realize you have been carrying the same question since you were her age and nobody ever gave you the room to ask it. Slept on because it is quiet, not because it is slight.

Mii drifts into daydreams and trains of thought whenever questions about the mind, the body and life itself come up. The short anime is tied to the #BeyondGender project, which hopes for a society where people can live as themselves, free from social and cultural ideas of what counts as masculine or feminine. Across three brief episodes, Mii's wandering reflections turn these ideas over. Academics in developmental psychology, gender theory, sex education and related fields oversee the program.