A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
March 26, 2010
Original Title:
お墓に泊まろう!
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
In 2011, shortly after the complete changeover to digital terrestrial broadcasting was completed, TV Tokyo went bankrupt. For some reason, the bankrupt company was taken over by a funeral director, but broadcasting was reduced to just three hours a day and employees were sent to help the funeral director. Meanwhile, the former president of Teletext, Masayuki Shimada, dies suddenly. Shimada left a last will and testament saying, ‘Make it the most boring funeral in the world’, and new employee Imai and the others struggle to fulfil his wish...
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