Hanako shows up when kids are actually drowning, not when they're just bored. She's the urban legend that decided helping was cooler than haunting. You get comedy about supernatural problems that matter to actual children, which means every episode finds the weird space where a ghost girl becomes the most reliable adult in the room.

Hanako is a girl who lives in a supernatural world set apart from our own, and she shows up whenever schoolchildren find themselves in trouble. She is a kindly spin on a long-running Japanese urban legend about a ghost named Hanako who haunts a toilet at the local school. This short-format TV remake of the earlier Hanako-san ga Kita!! series blends comedy, horror and the supernatural across 33 episodes.