Matji & Co.The episodes
Stories
Two series and thirty-four episodes from our four-seat matcha shop, fourteen of them already drawn, panel by panel, in the studio.
34 episodes
Series 1 · Episode 1
The quietest shop in TokyoBefore anything happened: Mutjo, his whisk, and a shop nobody hurries in.
Series 1 · Episode 2
The spillA pinch of green nano dust. One matcha. Four small somethings blinking in the foam.
Series 1 · Episode 3
Four small opinionsThe first Matji inspect the shop and file their complaints.
Series 1 · Episode 4
The great foam inspectionStandards are established. Mutjo fails his own.
Series 1 · Episode 5
One lump or fourThe Matji discover they can stack. The shelves are never the same.
Series 1 · Episode 6
The customer who sawA regular almost notices a cup moving. Statues have never been so convincing.
Series 1 · Episode 7
Whisk dayThe Matji attempt to whisk. The ceiling remembers.
Series 1 · Episode 8
The delivery runFirst delivery in the neighbourhood. The basket has supervisors now.
Series 1 · Episode 9
Closing timeLights out. The matcha inventory goes mysteriously, adorably down.
Series 1 · Episode 10
The photographThe first family photo. Nobody looks at the camera except everyone.
Series 1 · Episode 11
The postman's roundSato-san delivers everything, knows everyone, and gains four assistants he didn't ask for.
Series 1 · Episode 12
Hara-san's crosswordThe pen goes missing. The investigation is thorough. The culprit is obvious and unrepentant.
Series 1 · Episode 13
The tofu maker's morningKobayashi-san has standards older than the street. The Matji recognise a colleague.
Series 1 · Episode 14
The bathhouse on ThursdaySteam, towels, and the discovery of the perfect napping humidity.
Series 1 · Episode 15
A policeman with nothing to police, a cat that isn't missing, and a windowsill treaty.
Series 1 · Episode 16
A friendly rivalry of smells ends in a collaboration the whole street queues for.
Series 1 · Episode 17
An essay about the neighbourhood, four paperweights, and a reading nobody stays dry-eyed for.
Series 1 · Episode 18
Autumn leaves, a very old broom, and the whole street at one long table.
Series 1 · Episode 19
Kobayashi-san's tofu shop has tenants. The midnight tea ceremony gains guests.
Series 1 · Episode 20
A shiba puppy follows Sato-san home. The neighbourhood conducts an adoption.
Series 1 · Episode 21
A grey heron with standards meets a small green person with the same.
Series 1 · Episode 22
Two collectors meet in the shrine tree. Both attempt to give everything away.
Series 1 · Episode 23
Every morning, one duck rides the canal to the bathhouse. She knows why.
Series 1 · Episode 24
The sparrow situation reaches crisis. Watje conducts.
Series 1 · Episode 25
One sunbeam, three claimants, and the neighbourhood's finest diplomacy.
Series 1 · Episode 26
A tanuki attempts a disguise. The street attempts not to notice. Everyone succeeds.
Series 2 · Episode 1
Strange stars, unfamiliar hills — and the Matji already making breakfast.
Series 2 · Episode 2
A knight tries matcha and sits down properly for the first time in years.
Series 2 · Episode 3
Building the new café, one argued-over stone at a time.
Series 2 · Episode 4
Shopping for ingredients where the ingredients shop back.
Series 2 · Episode 5
Mutjo makes a few new Matji. Introductions are formal for nearly a minute.
Series 2 · Episode 6
The woods seem to like matcha-growers. The Matji negotiate on Mutjo's behalf.
Series 2 · Episode 7
Everyone believes Mutjo is a guru. The Matji see no reason to correct this.
Series 2 · Episode 8
Matcha for the whole village. Crowd control by committee, each member barely three centimetres tall.