Sawako is a masterclass in comedic trolling: she pretends to be cultured while openly admitting she hasn't read anything, and her bookworm friends keep falling for it anyway. The jokes fire so fast you miss half of them the first time, which is exactly the point, every rewatch reveals another layer of literary in-jokes buried under her deadpan laziness. It's comedy written by someone who actually loves books enough to mock the people who love them, not the books themselves.

Sawako Machida wants to be seen as a well-read person, and she insists on being called Miss Bernard. The trouble is that she finds reading too much effort, so she mostly carries books around the school library and hopes others assume she has read them. The library's real book lovers are annoyed by her careless attitude toward their favorite titles. Their talks cover works like the Bible, The Tale of the Heike and The Door into Summer. Along the way, Sawako picks up some knowledge and makes new friends in this short comedy.