Nobody talks about this one. Zorori operates on the logic of a storybook where every problem has a solution if you're clever enough to find it, and the show trusts you to laugh at the same jokes the characters do instead of explaining them. The forest restoration arc gives the adventure actual stakes without ever losing the warmth that makes you want to follow these three idiots across forty-nine more episodes. This is comfort television that earns it by never pretending to be something heavier than what it is.

Zorori and his companions Ishishi and Noshishi find themselves in a magical country, where they lend a hand to the wizard Nelly and the enigmatic Najou. Together they set out to bring the country's magic forest back to health. Based on Yutaka Hara's well-loved storybooks, this 50-episode TV run is the second anime adaptation of the franchise, and it mixes adventure, comedy and fantasy as the trio's efforts to revive the forest unfold.