It refuses to raise its voice. Neko Rahmen puts a cat named Taishou behind a ramen counter in Tokyo and then just lets the shop breathe, and the joke lands harder because nobody on screen treats it as a joke. The real flex is the structure: all 13 episodes come from a different creator, so the line work, the palette, the whole texture of the world resets every time you press play, and Taishou stays Taishou through all of it. That makes it less a series than a relay race, and watching the same cat get reinterpreted by thirteen different hands is the kind of thing anthology sickos live for. It moves slow on purpose, which is why people who want a punchline every ten seconds bounce off and never mention it again. Everyone else finishes it and quietly wants a bowl.

Taishou runs Neko Rahmen, a small ramen shop in downtown Tokyo with one unusual detail: he's a cat, and his is the only restaurant in the city run by one. He has an entrepreneurial streak, yet Mr. Tanaka is his only real customer. Each of the 13 episodes of this comedy ONA comes from a different creator, so the style changes from one installment to the next while the whole still fits together as one series.