The premise is pure harem formula, but the show actually commits to its ending instead of dodging it. You watch Kazuma actually choose someone, actually mean it, and the show respects that choice enough to build toward it from episode one. The art holds up, the comedy lands, and the fanservice knows when to get out of the way. This is what happens when a formulaic setup gets executed by people who understood their own story.

Kazuma arrives in a quiet countryside town for a fresh start, only to stumble through his first day in the most embarrassing way possible. He and his younger brother Ayumu have left the city because of Ayumu's frail health, and they are headed for the Yorozuyo Inn when they board the wrong bus. A monkey snatches Ayumu's cap, and Kazuma chases it into the forest until he is hopelessly lost. There he meets a lively girl named Ui, and while she guides him back, he falls on her and they share an accidental kiss. Her friend Ibuki sees it and kicks him away. His luck stays bad at the inn, where the landlady Senka has a teasing, slightly lewd sense of humor, and at school, where both girls turn out to be his classmates. As he settles into his new school, supports his brother and copes with the women now in his life, faint memories of a forgotten childhood friendship start surfacing. The romance comes with ecchi touches, based on an adult visual novel.