Just a Bit Espers is a Japanese drama starring Yo Oizumi as a 47 year old divorced man who starts a new job. On his first days at the company, the president gives him a pill and tells him it will grant him superpowers. He is also instructed to pretend to be married to a woman living in a certain house. The next day, he receives strange “missions.” One is to make someone carry an umbrella all day. Another is to drain the battery of someone’s phone at a café. When the protagonist goes to the café, the owner of the target phone suddenly feels an urgent need to use the bathroom and rushes off, leaving the phone on the table. Realistically, wouldn’t almost everyone take their phone with them, even in a hurry? It feels unlikely. Still, I keep watching, because I need to understand how the story unfolds. The protagonist’s ability turns out to be the power to hear a person’s inner thoughts when he touches them. It is an enviable ability. He later meets other people with powers, including the woman playing his wife. She seems to know everyone in the group, and they all claim to be espers as well. At one point they gather and talk together, but she appears to know nothing about superpowers. In any case, each of them possesses some small ability. One person can even make flowers bloom as a demonstration. But reading someone’s mind is hardly a minor ability. When he touches the hand of the woman acting as his wife, he realizes something shocking: she does not think of this as an act. She truly believes they are a real married couple and genuinely loves him. Then the president calls and warns him that no one is allowed to fall in love. The espers’ stated goal is to complete missions and save the world. Among the Netflix titles I have watched recently, this was relatively better. Yo Oizumi, as expected, delivers a strong performance. I have not seen many works by Aoi Miyazaki, but it is nice to see her again after a long time.