The K cast stops fighting supernatural conspiracies and just exists in each other's orbit, which is what you realize you actually wanted all along. These shorts trade apocalyptic stakes for something harder to make work: watching people you care about be genuinely comfortable around each other. Six episodes of no plot, no threat, no reason to watch except that seeing Yashiro run a chaotic idol unit while Mikoto deadpans in the background is exactly the show K needed to be. This is what a fandom survival kit looks like.

The cast of K steps into a new role as pop idols in this set of six short episodes, released as a 2018 special. A comedy with a musical bent, the shorts drop familiar characters into an idol setting for lighthearted fun. They work best for viewers who already know the cast and want to see them in a silly side story.