

The Tatami Time Machine Blues

It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the remote before it breaks. However, his prankster friend Ozu cannot resist playing with past events, even if it means bringing the universe to the brink of destruction. Now "I" finds himself racing through time to avoid disaster.
Pretty cool! Shingo Natsume and his team did an excellent job following up on the work of Masaki Yuasa and co.— some of whom also make an appearance here, most notably, Natsume himself. This fits almost seamlessly with the 2010 series, certainly more than the 2017 spin-off film.