Godzilla and his monster friends teaching you hiragana feels like a fever dream until you realize it's exactly what your brain needs right now. The OVA doesn't try to be cool or clever about it, a giant radioactive lizard sitting down to count apples is the joke and the entire point. You watch four episodes of pure, unambiguous educational content wrapped in kaiju and walk away genuinely calmer.

Godzilla and a lineup of fellow kaiju take center stage in a set of four educational OVAs made by Gakken and put out on VHS in 1994 and 1996. The giant monsters help young children learn the hiragana syllabary, counting, addition and subtraction. The result is a light, comedic learning series aimed squarely at kids, using famous monsters to make early reading and math lessons more fun.