Nobody talks about this one. A boy loses an umbrella, and the show spends twelve minutes proving that losing something ordinary can crack open an entire world. The umbrella becomes a girl; the rain becomes a map; the moment becomes permanent. What costs you is attention, it demands you watch like you're remembering something instead of discovering it. By the end, you understand that some gifts don't belong to you at all, they just pass through.

Osamu is a boy who gets an umbrella as a present from Sayu, and then the umbrella disappears. It turns out to have changed into a girl, who spends a rainy day roaming freely around town. Soba e is a single-episode fantasy ONA made as an advertisement, built around this whimsical premise of an everyday object taking human form.