Shin Ruri-iro no Yuki

When a cheap, supposedly haunted apartment becomes his new home, a tinkerer accidentally blows a hole in his own floor on moving day. What crawls out of the rubble is not a ghost — it's Ruri, a blonde snow fairy sealed inside a jar. That's the setup for Shin Ruri-iro no Yuki, a 4-episode OVA from 2000 based on a visual novel, and it leans fully into that goofy fantasy-romance premise without apologizing for it. Hiroshi is the kind of guy whose love of science and gadgets causes more problems than it solves, and his new cohabitation with a literal fairy pulled from the floor is exactly as chaotic as you'd expect. The tone is light, the character dynamics are warm, and the whole thing has that classic late-90s visual style that fans of that era tend to find genuinely comforting rather than dated. If you liked Brighter than the Dawning Blue or Manatsu no Yoru no Yuki Monogatari — those soft fantasy-romance OVAs where the supernatural element exists mostly to shake up domestic life — this sits in the same neighborhood. The short episode count means it moves quickly, and the blend of sci-fi invention humor with fairy-tale whimsy keeps it from feeling like a generic setup. It's a product of its time, and that's part of the appeal.