This one gets you with the small stuff: the sound of a Kyoto neighborhood where the shrine is just where the local kids hang out, and a girl too flustered to say one honest sentence to Tanbabashi. Inari's wish gets granted and she immediately spends it wrong, taking Sumizome's face to get close to him, and the show is smart enough to make that feel awful instead of cute. Uka-sama is the real find, a deity who cares more about video games and Inari's brother Touka than about her own divinity, and Kon the fox pup trails behind the whole thing like a conscience with paws. Then the divine-power problem turns real, Amaterasu enters, and the stakes stop being about a crush. Ten episodes is not enough and every fan knows it, but that last stretch of torii gates earns the ache.

Inari Fushimi is a shy, clumsy but kind middle schooler living in Kyoto's Fushimi ward, with a crush on her classmate Kouji Tanbabashi that she cannot bring herself to confess. While cutting through the local shrine, she finds a fox pup in a river and rescues him. In gratitude, the shrine goddess Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami shares a piece of her power, letting Inari turn into anyone by calling out "Inari, konkon." Alongside the fox spirit Kon, she befriends the goddess, whom she calls Uka-sama, and meets more of the supernatural world, wondering whether her new gift might help her find the courage to tell Kouji how she feels. The ten-episode TV series mixes comedy, romance and the supernatural.