It lowers your heart rate. This is a show about a salaryman in Suginami who can't stretch his paycheck, so he rents out the second floor, and what knocks on the door is a stubborn old dog named Norayama Kuroyoshi with his grandson Norakuro in tow. Nobody in the Kinoshita house stops to ask why the tenants are dogs. That's the whole joke and the whole charm: fifty episodes of rent, dinner, household friction and small mysteries played completely straight, with Tagawa's ancient stray finally cast as somebody's grandkid instead of a soldier. There's no spectacle here and it isn't trying for any. If you grew up in a house where money was tight and the new lodger became family anyway, this one knows exactly what it's doing.

A salaryman in Suganami, Tokyo, earns so little that he decides to rent out the second floor of the family apartment for extra money. Two dogs appear at the door wanting the space: the elder, Norayama Kuroyoshi, and his grandson Norakuro. Kuroyoshi plans to open a detective agency there, with himself as president and Norakuro as director. They take on Keita, one of the family's sons, as an employee, and Rika Sawaguchi, a high school student who lives next door, becomes their advisor. Three days after the office opens, the phone rings with a new case. The series is a comedy with a mystery angle, set in the autumn of 1987.