Stop me if you've heard this one: a teacher's day spirals from getting roasted in a classroom journal to babysitting a dog to dispensing art wisdom to manga kids at the bar. Hoshi-sensei moves through it all with the kind of weathered acceptance that makes mundane disasters actually funny. This is the show for people who find comedy in the specific texture of a Wednesday, not in spectacle.

Hoshi-sensei teaches Japanese at an all-girls school, where his students and colleagues keep getting the better of him. The girls pull him into shiritori word games drawn in their daily class notes, talk him into bringing a dog into the classroom, and ask him for tips on becoming manga artists. Meanwhile his fellow teachers haul him along on their pub outings. The single OVA came packaged with a special edition of the manga's third volume, and it plays as an offbeat slice-of-life comedy built on deadpan exchanges among a quirky cast.