The joke isn't that a principal wrestles a deer instead of doing his job. The joke is that he does both, in the same moment, with the same casual energy. Nichijou pretends to be a show about nothing, then animates that nothing so meticulously that every throwaway gag feels like it matters. You're watching a studio turn the spaces between real life into something funnier and more beautiful than reality deserves.

A strange school sets the scene for this gag comedy OVA, where the principal might grapple with a deer and a rollcake could be tucked away inside a robot's arm, while ordinary moments like stacking a card castle or sitting a test nobody prepared for still happen. In Class 1-Q, Yuuko actually finishes her homework for once, scores a 1, and her friend Mio tries hard to lift her spirits. Nano works to cure the cold of Hakase, a stubborn 8-year-old, but even Sakamoto-san, a cat who can talk, struggles to get the girl to swallow her medicine. Elsewhere, Yuuko, Mio and Mai stir up a little mischief aboard a train with no other passengers. The episode adapts Arai Keiichi's manga and first came bundled with a limited edition of its sixth volume.