A kid wants to make sushi like his dad, but the show actually cares about where the rice comes from, who grows it, and what happens when that system breaks. It's a single episode that sneaks agricultural policy into your brain through pure earnestness. You watch a children's special funded by the government and walk away understanding why Japanese fisheries matter, which is the opposite of how propaganda is supposed to work.

Shouta is a young boy who dreams of becoming a sushi chef like his father. This one-episode special from 1999 sets aside the competitive side of the manga it adapts. Instead it turns to food self-sufficiency and to Japan's policies on agriculture, forestry and fisheries, using the familiar sushi story to teach viewers about them. The special was funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and it mixes that educational aim with comedy.