Hanako's inner monologue turns every stranger into a love story she'll never actually live. The joke lands because she's genuinely happy in her delusions, and the show respects that happiness instead of punishing her for it. Five episodes is exactly the right length to fall in love with someone who fell in love with everyone she meets.

Hanako works at a small publishing company and struggles a little with communicating. She has never been in love with a man. Even so, she enjoys a full and satisfying daily life, because all of her romance happens inside her head. Each day she meets some man and falls into an imagined love affair with him. Kindan Joshi is a five-episode comedy romance built around those daydreams.