Season 1 2017

It has been 3 months and counting since arriving at his wife's family home in Tokyo. Bryan is struggling with the cultural norm of allowing his 6-year-old daughter Alice to walk to school by herself, but his wife Itsuki brushes his protests away because “Japan is so safe!” Expecting Tokyo to be full of high-tech robots, Bryan is a little disappointed with the calm reality but, as he takes to the streets, he soon notices that something entirely less advanced safeguards the city: good ol' fashioned kind-heartedness!

Bryan is doing his best to master the art of being a Japanese homemaker, but his days more often end in failure than not. Seeing Bryan at a loss, Itsuki suggests he heads down to the local sento (public bath), a favorite spot of her father's. His first ever sento experience begins with trepidation, but he slowly relaxes into the warm waters, relaxing and loosening up for the first time since he arrived in Tokyo... unfortunately his tongue loosens up a bit too much...

Alice is the new kid in her grade 1 elementary school class. With the school canteen out of commission, parents must prepare lunchboxes for a while- and, unfortunately, Alice knows exactly what this means! The lunchboxes that Bryan makes are vastly different to those of her classmates. Her pleas to her father to make her a cute Japanese lunchbox fall on deaf ears, with Bryan seeing his sandwiches as representing their British heritage. A family crisis looms until Itsuki has an interesting idea...

This newly formed family head out for a special dinner on the night of Bryan and Itsuki's wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, the venue for this meal happens to be the very same restaurant that Bryan visited 8 years ago and got a rather shocking baptism into the extreme end of Japanese cuisine. Back to the present day, over the backdrop of Japanese table manners and food, a battle of male pride takes an unforeseen turn...