With fire being a common hazard in Edo, residents often choose to rent furniture, clothing, or decorations instead of buying them outright. Okou and Seiji run one such lending shop which has developed a reputation for being uncommonly experienced with matters involving tsukumogami.
A partly episodic period drama with slight romance, mystery, and educational elements alongside a large amount of comic relief.
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While this series can definitely wax banal, for some reason I rarely notice its flaws, am really enjoying it, and will be sorry when it’s over. I even love the title poster, above, featuring the friendship between a grumpy spirit-like blob (resembling either a stone marker or a traditional shop sign carved from a massive, irregular log cross-section), and a playful vine of hiragana. And one of the tsukumogami is even a black-crowned night heron, one of my favorite birds since early childhood. The toys around the shop, plus the falling cherry blossom petals in the ED, remind me a… Read more »