Overview
- Crunchyroll quietly released 12 mini-episodes on June 3 that together cover the anime’s first six planned episodes.
- The early run drew an unusually large number of user ratings, with outlets reporting totals from roughly 10,000 up to reports near 20,000 and a brief fluctuation from a 5.0 score to 4.9 before returning.
- Those 12 segments are canonical and run about 10 to 17 minutes each, meaning they are the same story material later to be presented as standard-length weekly episodes.
- The series follows middle-aged office worker Sasaki and supermarket clerk Yamada/Tayama in a quiet, adult-oriented slice-of-life romance that critics and fans say fills a gap for older viewers.
- The full-length weekly broadcast is scheduled for July 2026, and the early positive reception could shape expectations and viewers’ choices about whether to watch the mini-episodes now or wait for the standard run.