SeriesONE GOOD PHOTO!
A group photo almost never works on the first try.
- Recommended ageAges 3–9, with family
- 3 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesObservation, comic timing & laughing together
IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE, TOGETHER Picture books you'll want to continue. Open one episode together, and there's one more thing to talk about. Choose the next series by age or interest. Start with a free opening episode.
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Songs from the Heart: The Curtain Call Express
The feelings she could not say become a song.
On the night she moves away, Mio tells her best friend not to come. A one-car train carrying a tiny stage gives the truth she could not say a melody of its own.
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SeriesBefore the City Wakes
The city was moving before you looked.
- Recommended ageAges 6–9, with family
- 3 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesObservation, processes & respect for work
History at the Crossroads
Before giving the answer, hear how your child would think.
- Recommended ageAges 7–10, with family
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesReasoning & Japanese history
SeriesGreat Lives at the Crossroads
Begin not with an achievement, but with the problem someone wanted to change.
- Recommended ageAges 7–12, with family
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesProblem finding, ingenuity & social change
SeriesWorld History at the Crossroads
Before the world changes, hear how your child would think.
- Recommended ageAges 8–12, with family
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesWorld history through maps, timelines & sources
The Scroll of Time
Seek-and-find Japanese history
- Recommended ageAges 5–9
- 5 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesJapanese history
Kota's English Journey
First English that clicks — and sticks
- Recommended ageAges 4–8
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesFirst English
What-If Days
Real safety skills, told as stories
- Recommended ageAges 4–8
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesSafety skills
Michi & Mikke: Find the Way
Walk, taste and compare your way across Japan
- Recommended ageAges 5–9
- 5 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesJapan's geography
Hinata & You: The Casebook
Look, compare, think — first deductions
- Recommended ageAges 5–9
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesObservation & logic
Kota & Nene's Great Adventures
Body science, learned by adventure
- Recommended ageAges 5–9
- 5 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesBody & science
SeriesShutter Night
It isn't over until you lose twice.
- Recommended ageAdults, and families from age 6
- 1 episode
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesAnswering a beat · rhythm learned with the body
Say It With Me
Words you can't say hide in little pieces.
- Recommended ageAges 4–7
- 2 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesPutting feelings into words
SeriesNumber Town Rescue
Save the town before the countdown reaches zero
- Recommended ageAges 3–5
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesNumber, shape, sequence and length
SeriesBuild It! Vehicle Team
You are the captain who decides the dispatch order
- Recommended ageAges 3–5
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesJobs, order and teamwork
SeriesThe Runaway Workshop
Something escapes the workshop every day — find out why, then catch it
- Recommended ageAges 3–5
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesEveryday science, observation and retrying
SeriesWonder Works Club
Redesign failed inventions before they run out of control
- Recommended ageAges 6–9
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesMaths, design and iteration
SeriesWildlife Rescue Notes
Track urgent wildlife mysteries through forests, rivers and the night city
- Recommended ageAges 6–9
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesEcology, observation and testing hypotheses
SeriesThe Mind Games Club: Your Move
Become the unseen strategist who leads an underdog team against the country's strongest players
- Recommended ageAges 10+
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesLogic, data and perspective-taking
SeriesThe Truth About Scary
Enter the site of each chilling rumor and find its true face from the evidence you can test
- Recommended ageAges 10+
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesHypothesis testing, critical thinking and checking information
Beyond the Masterpiece
Read a masterpiece not as trivia, but as a life.
- Recommended ageFor adults and ages 13+
- 5 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesClose looking, cultural history & grown-up conversation
Baaba's Parcels
Solve Japanese riddles with seven-year-old Emi, who lives overseas.
- Recommended ageAges 6–9, with family
- 4 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesHeritage Japanese & family connection
Time-Trace Investigation Bureau
When you look through, something looks back.
- Recommended ageAges 9–12, with family
- 2 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesObservation, logic & family judgment
The Sunset Chime
Everyone in the family was seven once.
- Recommended ageAges 5–9, with family
- 2 episodes
- Free episode available
What this series nurturesFamily memory, empathy & how life used to be
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