It lowers your blood pressure. Two of the most consequential figures in human history are stuck in a cramped Tachikawa walk-up trying to make rent, and the show plays it completely straight: Buddha clipping coupons and agonizing over the grocery budget, Jesus impulse-buying junk and blogging about it like a man who just discovered the internet. The comedy lives in the leakage, the halo that flares when he gets excited, the glow off Buddha's forehead when he's moved, divinity refusing to stay hidden in a country that mostly just thinks they're weird foreigners. Yes, it's two episodes and yes, some gags land soft. Nobody watches this for the punchlines. You watch it for two enlightened beings splitting a small apartment and being genuinely, uncomplicatedly nice to each other. If Hataraku Maou-sama's part-time-job humility made you smile, this is that with the volume turned down and the kettle on.

Jesus and Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, are spending a vacation on Earth as roommates in a Tokyo apartment. They try to make sense of modern Japanese society while keeping who they really are a secret, which proves difficult when each one gives off the unmistakable air of the faith he started. Much of the comedy comes from gags built around the two religions and everything connected to them. The two episodes are a supernatural slice of life comedy adapted from Nakamura Hikaru's manga, and they were packaged with special editions of the eighth and ninth manga volumes.