This one doesn't ask for your tears, it just sits down next to you and waits. Twenty-odd minutes, one episode, and the entire thing is framed against that fact about elephants: when the end comes, they walk away from the herd and finish it alone. Then it turns the question on a man with lung cancer that has already metastasized and roughly six months on the clock, and quietly asks whether a person does the same. There is no spectacle here, no arc engineering, no third-act swell of hope. It's just the last few steps, scored rather than explained, and the answer it lands on is stubbornly, painfully human. Almost nobody has seen it, which is exactly why the people who have won't shut up about it.

A man learns he has lung cancer that has already spread, and he probably has about six months left to live. Framed against the belief that elephants leave the herd to die alone, the OVA asks what a person chooses to do once he knows his end is near. The single episode is a drama and slice-of-life story about the last few steps of one man's life, and it suggests his path will look quite different from the elephants'.