Nobody talks about this one. A show about a sentient bowl of soup helping people from inside a kettle should be disposable, but it treats every dream, even a cancer patient's, even Oden-kun's own search for his mother, with the same quiet sincerity it reserves for the jokes. The comedy works because the show never winks at its own absurdity; it just lets you sit in a world where food has feelings, where helping others matters, where a kid made of broth can change someone's life by getting eaten.

Inside the kettle of an oden food cart, in a strange dimensional bubble, lies Oden village, whose residents pass peaceful days waiting for customers to come and eat them. Until then, Oden-kun helps troubled neighbors make their dreams come true. When he hears that a customer's mother has cancer, he leaves the kettle and, once eaten, faces off against a cancer cell named Gannosuke. His own dream is to one day meet his mother, and while he waits for that day he does one good deed daily. The show is a comedy told in short episodes, built on a very odd setup.