Nobody's watching this one expecting depth. Anpanman rolls into a race, helps people along the way, gets a new head when his gets dirty, does it again. The movie doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is: a kid watching their hero move through a world that exists to be fixed by him, one town at a time. There's comfort in that simplicity. There's no irony, no subtext, no lesson that lands weird. Just a character who was literally made to help, doing exactly that, and the quiet satisfaction of a problem solved in 25 minutes flat. This is the show you put on when you need the world to make sense again.

The Anpanman Grand Prix sends specially built cars racing around Anpanman World over land, through the air, and across the sea. Maggie, a grumpy young girl from Flower Land, causes an accident that leaves Creampanda's race car wrecked. After she helps him repair it, she joins the race as his partner. The film pairs a big multi-terrain race with an unlikely team that forms after a mishap.