It gets in, lands the joke, and leaves before you've settled into your chair. Ten shorts, one eccentric scientist, and a lab full of robots each engineered for exactly one absurd job: a robot that grants three wishes, a robot that helps you write your diary, a robot built to misbehave on purpose so its owner never gets bored. The gag is always the same shape and always lands differently, because the punchline isn't the machine, it's the human who asked for it. No stakes, no arcs, no world to save, just a tidy little twist per episode that makes you sit back and go, oh, that's what he was doing. If you like your sci-fi dry, small, and smarter than it lets on, this is a perfect afternoon. Ten minutes of it will outlast most twelve-episode seasons in your head.

A brilliant but eccentric scientist spends his days in his lab building robots, each made for one very particular job and little else. One grants three wishes. Another helps its owner keep a diary. A third misbehaves on purpose so its master never gets bored. These machines turn out to be more useful than they first seem, at least most of the time. Adapted from the short stories of science fiction author Hoshi Shin'ichi, this comedic sci-fi fantasy runs in two-minute episodes produced by Studio 4°C, with music by Seiichi Yamamoto, and was first released free through Yahoo! Japan.