A spirit locked out of his body has twelve hours to stop an apocalypse triggered by accidentally seeing panties, which means this show is genuinely asking you to take its stupidest premise completely seriously. The tonal whiplash is the point: it swings from absurdist sex comedy to real sci-fi mystery to genuine emotional stakes without apology, and somehow the gear shifts work because the show commits harder each time. You're waiting for it to wink at the camera and admit it's all a joke. It never does. Instead it builds toward something that actually matters, using the dumbest possible setup to earn moments that land like a punch to the chest.
Yuta Iridatsu's day goes badly when he is caught up in a bus hijacking, and after masked hero Strange Juice helps him escape, his soul ends up separated from his body. Now a spirit under the watch of Chiranosuke, a lecherous cat ghost, he drifts around Korai House, the boarding house he shares with inventor Meika, idol Mikatan, shut-in Ito and medium Rabura. Seeing underwear makes him far stronger, but one more glimpse before he gets his body back will send an asteroid crashing into Earth. To prevent that, he has to track down a missing mystical book hidden somewhere in the house while uncovering the secrets of its residents and a villainous group bent on ending the world. The result is an ecchi sci-fi comedy that plays apocalyptic stakes for laughs.
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