Dandelion

📖 SYNOPSIS

Imagine clocking in every day to guide dead people to the afterlife, but still having to deal with quotas, department politics, and a boss breathing down your neck. That's the daily reality for Tetsuo Tanba and his team leader Misaki Kurogane, two 'Angels' working in the Send-Off Department of the Japanese Angel Federation. Their gig is tracking down Earthbound spirits — ghosts stuck in the living world because of unresolved regrets — and helping them move on. The catch is that most angel divisions treat this like a numbers game, rushing through cases to hit their targets. Tetsuo and Misaki's Dandelion Clan takes a different approach: they actually sit down, listen, and figure out what's keeping each spirit tethered. This makes them terrible employees on paper but genuinely good at what they do. The whole thing plays out across 7 ONA episodes, and the tone lands somewhere between workplace sitcom and quiet emotional gut-punch, sometimes in the same scene. The bureaucratic afterlife setting is the real star here — angels filing paperwork, dealing with interdepartmental rivalries, complaining about caseloads. If you liked the afterlife office vibes of Hoozuki's Coolheadedness or the spirit-of-the-week warmth of Kyoukai no Rinne, this is in that same lane. It also shares some DNA with Angel Beats in how it handles the emotional weight of souls letting go. Low-stakes, genuinely funny, and surprisingly moving when it wants to be.