It resets your pulse in under three minutes, which is the whole trick. Four parts in, SHIBUYA♡HACHI has stopped needing to explain itself: the most photographed dog in Japan steps off his pedestal outside the station and just goes about his day, and by now you know the rhythm well enough to feel it before the episode starts. There is no arc to catch up on, no stakes ladder, no heavy turn waiting in episode nine. It's Hachi and his friends, the same cheerful crew, in the same overloaded neighborhood, being lightly funny about ordinary things. The joke that keeps working is the contrast: Shibuya is the loudest crossing on earth, and this show is the quietest thing in it. Twelve shorts, exactly as long as a train wait, and you leave a little less clenched than you arrived.

Part 4 of SHIBUYA♡HACHI continues directly from Part 3 in a new run of short episodes. Hachi, the character who stands for the statue of Hachiko, the faithful dog of Shibuya station, has long kept watch over the city. Now he moves around present-day Shibuya, passing easygoing, cheerful days alongside his upbeat friends in a gentle slice-of-life comedy.