The show traps you in a television station where nobody has any idea what they're doing, deadlines are minutes away, and somehow the broadcast still goes live. Every episode is structured like a live TV disaster, something breaks, someone panics, the solution is either genius or catastrophic with no middle ground. It's a comedy about the specific exhaustion of making something that vanishes the moment it airs, where your best work gets two minutes of airtime and nobody will ever know what you sacrificed to make it happen.
In 2014, 23-year-old Mafuneko joins the TV production department at Tokyo Hajikko Television as a newly hired assistant director. She expects the backstage world of television to be glamorous, but her work turns out to be full of bizarre, baffling assignments, such as collecting 300 acorns or building a mosaic from whatever the camera lens reflects. Amid constant chaos, setbacks and a staff of oddballs, she keeps working toward her goal of becoming a real TV producer. A short-format comedy about the hard, strange work of making television.