So there’s a script to write, 40 tapes to look at and 200 pages of transcripts to digest. Great time to get on YouTube and watch the Japanese do strange things to themselves.

There’s the Human Tetris game where grown men have to contort their bodies into strange positions in order to avoid being hit by a moving wall, the weird poetry recital competition where contestants get hit in the balls if they stumble over their words, and then there’s this – our current favourite:

And yes, deadline. We know.