If You Like What You Hear

7.0 2021 1 Season

Takamura Misono works for a company that makes tsukemono (preserved vegetable side dishes). She enjoys listening to podcasts and eating alone at home from food bought at franchise restaurants on her way from work. She i…

Season 1

12 episodes

Misono works for a pickle company. Her pleasures are listening to her favorite podcasts and eating at chain restaurants several times a week. She constantly finds it hard to express herself during company meetings, so her colleague Arisa suggests that she try creating podcasts to improve her confidence.

Misono starts out modestly, using borrowed equipment for her podcasts. But then she decides to get more professional by buying her own microphones and equipment with the help of Arisa and Ryohei - who is a junior at her company.

Misono has sound problems. Although she loves the soothing music coming from her next door neighbour's apartment, it is starting to affect her podcast. Her attempts to try and sound proof her room end in failure when her neighbour realises what she is trying to do! Now she has to try and mend the relationship...

Misono suffers a personal setback and isn't sure how she should react to it. She decides to air her thoughts and feelings in public via her podcast to sort out how she feels.

After using her podcast to help work out some relationship issues, Misono awakes the next day to find a large number of very positive reactions to her most recent episode. However there are also some negative ones...

Misono and Arisa get a chance to sit in on a broadcast at a local radio station after Misono's old friend Reika, who works at the station, invites her over. But then something very unexpected happens...

Misono gets a chance to accompany her colleage Kiriishi on a sales trip to a local supermarket. Misono is super-impressed by Kiriishi's sales technique but it falls flat for once, and so Misono has to provide a bit of encouragement...

Misono's company decides to end its long-standing sponsorhip deal with the local radio station. Misono and her colleagues are encouraged to come up with some new sponsorship ideas, but it's not easy...

One of Misono's podcast fans - Hinami Saizonji - is a young reclusive girl whose rich family are health freaks. Misono and her colleagues organise a top-secret pizza run for Hinami...

Miyuki, Misono's domineering mother, visits unexpectedly because she has a meeting with Matsumaru Pickles, a rival to Misono's employer. Later that day, while Misono and her colleagues are eating dinner, her mother joins them without warning. She has something to tell Misono...