TANI-SAN: AN AWKWARD CUSTOMER

When Tani-san accidentally causes a 'miracle' to happen at the grave of Mrs Ishihama's dull aunt, the race is on to make the deceased seem worthy of it.

Tani-san kidnaps Princess Otohime - a Turtle and daughter of the Emperor of the Sea- but then decides to collaborate with Otohime to undermine the food chain and defeat the Evil Emperor.

Tani-san visits a local restaurant that is famous for its fresh seafood - so fresh, in fact, that she ends up in a pitched battle with her main course.

In which the Kawano sisters learn absolutely nothing about Tani-san's marital status and there is also the matter of a missing piece of tiramisu measuring 1.85 centimetres.

Tani-san and her friends accidentally spend a weekend at a mountain retreat, somewhere far too quiet for our auntie-hero. It is not long before things get a bit weird.

With her bottom getting bigger by the day, TANI-SAN makes use of a capybara diet toy which issues cautionary advice at the press of a snout. However a small domestic accident inevitably leads to this  'voice of conscience' being quietly silenced.

Tani-san is quite used to exterminating cockroaches en masse with Dr Ichibangase's Super-Power Goki-Chan Bye-Bye Spray. But when she then comes face-to-face with one gigantic bug, she is forced to resort to premeditated murder - i.e. getting it drunk on sake and sending it over a cliff in a minivan.

Faced with the prospect of being abandoned on a tiny island off the coast of northern Hokkaido, Tani-san conspires with one friend to cannibalise the other two.

Tani-san resorts to the use of a homemade cat-a-pult to rid herself of her long-term feline frenemy, 'William'- the feral cat who likes to do his business in her garden just to annoy her.

The Gifu Bush warbler turns  tables on her Abductors as Tani-san discovers some curious family history