Izumi walks into a yakuza loan shark's office and lies through her teeth about saving a dead theater with a cast that doesn't exist yet. What follows isn't a fantasy about talent blooming overnight, it's about real people learning to trust each other enough to stand on stage together, and every moment of that trust costs something from each of them. The show knows the difference between a good character and a character who actually changes, and it refuses to let you pretend these people are interchangeable with every other ensemble cast out there. This is what happens when a game adaptation respects its characters enough to make you believe they could have survived without you.

A mysterious letter brings Izumi Tachibana to Veludo Way, where her father once directed the all-male Mankai Company. The troupe is down to a single member and buried in debt, and the building is about to be repurposed. Izumi stands up to the yakuza loan sharks and wins one last chance, but the collector sets strict terms: a successful debut show by next month, all four all-male sub-troupes revived, and the debt cleared within a year. Izumi must also take over as director. She quickly assembles a five-member Spring Troupe: eager high schooler Sakuya Sakuma, Masumi Usui, who is smitten with her, aspiring playwright Tsuzuru Minagi, office worker Itaru Chigasaki, and a friendly foreigner named Citron. None of them has much acting experience, so it falls to Izumi to train them for a performance that could bring the company back. The show mixes comedy and drama.