Two kids promise to become manga legends. One wants fame, the other wants to marry a girl who will only date him if he succeeds, so the deadline is real and the stakes are personal in a way most ambition stories never touch. The show watches them actually work, actually fail, actually revise, actually submit, actually wait for rejections that come anyway. It finds comedy in the grind and drama in the moment a editor says no. You're not watching a montage of success. You're watching the specific, exhausting, stupid, beautiful process of two people who refuse to quit because quitting means losing each other and losing her. By the end you believe they'll make it not because the show promised it, but because you've watched them choose it a hundred times when they could have stopped.

Moritaka Mashiro is a ninth-grader with real drawing talent who has given up on becoming a manga artist like his late uncle and plans to settle for an ordinary office career. That changes when classmate Akito Takagi, the top student and an aspiring writer, sees the sketches in his notebook and pushes him to team up as a creative duo. Moritaka resists at first, but after Akito drags him to the home of Miho Azuki, the girl he secretly likes, he learns she hopes to become a voice actor. In the moment he blurts out a marriage proposal, and she agrees on one condition: they wed only after both reach their dreams. Working under the pen name Muto Ashirogi, the pair set out to become the greatest manga creators in Japan, in a comedy drama with romance and slice-of-life touches.