A burnt-out office worker meets an actual Hindu god in his apartment and gets life advice that somehow works. Ganesha doesn't fix anything for him, Fumio has to do the work, but having a divine reminder that he's capable of more than clocking in and out changes everything. The show understands that confidence isn't about becoming a different person; it's about recognizing you were never as small as you felt. Comedy comes from the absurdity of the setup, not from mocking Fumio's struggles. By the end, you believe in this guy more than he believes in himself, and that's the whole point.
Fumiyama Fumio is an ordinary office worker with little faith in himself and no sense of direction in life. Everything changes when Ganesha appears before him: a strange, elephant-like being who speaks with an Osaka accent and proudly calls himself a super famous god. Ganesha hands Fumio a string of bizarre tasks meant to make him successful, and through this odd guidance Fumio starts to build real self-confidence. The comedy short is adapted from a best-selling book by Mizuno Keiya and ran as part of a TBS variety program.