Kyoto moves differently in this show, and so does time, each episode is a digression that reveals something true about grief, family, and how the dead shape everything you do. The animation breathes, the score knows exactly when to let silence speak, and Yasaburou's voice carries the weight of a son trying to understand his father through people who knew him better. This is a show that refuses to rush toward answers. It costs patience, but what you get back is a world so lived-in and a family so real that you'll think about them long after it ends.

Kyoto harbors secrets beneath its traditional streets. Humans share the city with raccoon dogs and tengu, and most people never notice. Yasaburou Shimogamo, third son of an influential raccoon dog family, spends carefree days looking after an old tengu, shapeshifting to watch humans, feuding with other raccoon dogs and dealing with a mysterious woman named Benten. Behind the calm lies an old wound: his father, once head of the raccoon dog community, was eaten by a human group called the Friday Club. As the brothers try to avoid a grim fate of their own, Yasaburou draws closer to the truth about his father's death, in a story that mixes comedy, drama and supernatural slice of life.