Uramichi Oniisan

On camera, Uramichi Omota is the smiling exercise leader of a children’s television programme. Keeping that smile in place is another matter: exhaustion and disappointment have a way of slipping into the cheerful advice he gives his young audience.

His coworkers have problems of their own, and the demands of production rarely make anyone’s day easier. Between absurd assignments and blunt observations about adulthood, Uramichi keeps turning up for work and trying to be the dependable older brother the children expect.