A monochrome android obsessed with being colorless in a world that refuses to cooperate is the entire joke, and it never stops being funny. Four minutes is exactly the right length to land the punchline before you can think too hard about whether there's a plot. Miss Monochrome's deadpan confusion at basic human interaction and fashion choices reads like watching someone try to exist in a world built entirely wrong, and somehow that's endlessly charming.

Miss Monochrome is an android who runs on a single AA battery and shares her home with her only friend, a robot vacuum called Ruu-chan. She adores everything monochrome, hates color of every kind, and dreams of turning the whole world black and white. Hoping to someday meet the idol Kikuko, who keeps showing up in her strange recurring dreams, she sets out to become a top-selling idol herself. Her debut does not come easily, and the spacey android gets pushed around by the show business world. Her methods are odd, like picking her manager out of a convenience store, yet her dedication keeps making her stand out. The character began as Horie Yui's virtual singer, and this short-format music and slice of life series follows her climb toward the spotlight.