Nori (Satomi) was walking down the sidewalk when they accidentally trip over a hand. The hand in question turns out to be a sentient one named Reachy (Pokey) and a Game Show Host looking for potential contestants which Nori eagerly participates. Since they are the only contestant, Nori automatically wins and receives the grand prize of.... a single grain of rice like the title suggests.
Understandably, Nori is extremely disappointed and complains about the prize but Reachy explains the catch, they can keep the grain or double it every time they win an episode. Liking those odds, Nori decides to continue and thus begins the Battle For Rice.
Here is the playlist
and intro.
Contains the following tropes:
- A Dog Named "Dog": A dried seaweed sheet named Nori to be exact.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Reachy is named after how hands (Their species) are able to reach things with the common "-y" suffix.
- Animate Inanimate Object: As one of many Object Shows to date, the cast is all anthropomorphic objects and are named accordingly.
- The Blank: Reachy is only just a hand with no facial features and can only express by moving their fingers. They can still somehow talk without a mouth though.
- Extremely Short Intro Sequence: The intro is merely a two-second clip of a guitar riff while Reachy tosses the rice grain over the title card to Nori. The second "season" makes it a bit longer, being a series of piano notes as Nori, Pawn and Reachy appear.
- Finger Muzzle: Reachy does this to shush and calm down a panicking Nori when they first met.
- Helping Hands: Reachy is a sentient hand who is both an affable and reasonable host to Nori.
- Minimalist Cast: Officially the smallest Object Show to date with only one host and one contestant, putting the previous record holders of Battle Show Cool Yeah and Earthquake to shame. The second "season" adds Pawn.
- Slice of Life: While ostensibly about the eponymous battle for rice, the low cast means no challenges are held. The second episode is mostly about Nori and Reachy's chess game and Pawn's sudden appearance allowing for Reachy to hold a voting for the winner of the second "season."
- Smart People Play Chess: Averted. Reachy completely fails to realize how stalemates work, which Nori has to explain to them. When they undo their move, they then put their queen right next to Nori's king, allowing them to take the queen and enter another stalemate because neither's king can get near the other. Upon playing another game, Reachy makes a move very early on that immediately checks them.
