This is a story about a little girl who lives in an old house in the mountains. Her name is Bincho-tan. Each episode depicts a day in the life of Bincho-tan as she prepares her breakfast in the morning, goes to the forest to gather vegetables, does her household chores and rests at night after a day's work. She is surrounded by a group of close friends who add color to her ordinary yet simple life. 

Bincho-tan (&#12403;&#12435;&#12385;&#12423;&#12358;&#12479;&#12531;, Binch&#333;tan) (also Binch&#333;-tan) is a mascot character, created by mangaka Takahito Ekusa (&#27743;&#33609;&#22825;&#20161;, Ekusa Takahito) and produced by game goods company Alchemist. 
The name is a play on words: binch&#333;tan (&#20633;&#38263;&#28845;, binch&#333;tan) is a kind of charcoal, which is mainly used for cooking. However, -tan is a suffix created by the mispronunciation of chan. Relating to this dajare, the main cast is the moe anthropomorphic representations of different types of charcoal. 
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Binchou-tan wakes up in her tattered wooden hut only to discover that her water barrel is almost empty. She decides to go to the nearby stream, only to find the fast-flowing water to be brown. Walking the path to town, past green fields, Binchou-tan finally reaches an old water pump on the central marketplace, and fills her wooden bucket. On the way home it starts to rain, so she lets the rain fill the bucket to the rim, preparing herself for the next work day.
 
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