Nobody talks about this one. A single perfect episode about waste and wanting, where an old man watches a child learn that broken things still have value. The show moves at the speed of someone actually thinking, not performing for you. It costs nothing to watch and leaves you unable to explain why it mattered so much.

Mottainai is a single-episode special from 2015, made as a joint campaign between NHK and Advertising Council Japan. The piece works as a commercial aimed at young people in Japan. Its goal is to help them appreciate the lives they have now, with the message that giving up on their futures would be a waste. Its genre label is slice of life.