It hooks you by handing you the wrong protagonist. You come in for the man hunting gods and instead you're walking home from school with Nozomu, an aspiring writer with no story yet, getting hassled by some guys over an accidental bump until a stranger named Ichiyou steps in. Then Tenkou turns up looking for his Master, Nozomu plays matchmaker, and the show quietly reveals its real engine: two men whose bond reads less like partnership than an argument neither of them will walk away from. The search for the Gods is the plot. The way Ichiyou treats Tenkou, and the way Tenkou keeps coming back anyway, is the show. And Nozomu standing at the edge of another world with a blank notebook is the most honest stand-in for the viewer you'll get all season, because she wants the story as badly as you do.

Nozomu dreams of becoming a writer, but she's still searching for the right story. On her way home from school, a run-in with some rough guys ends when a mysterious man named Ichiyou steps in, a man who is hunting for Gods. Soon after, another figure named Tenkou appears, looking for his Master. Nozomu brings the two back together, witnesses their abusive dynamic, and catches a glimpse of another world. That world was held up by four malevolent Gods, the Four Perils, who have broken their seals and fled along with countless lesser deities, leaving lands barren and famine looming. Kashi, skilled dancers and singers, must track down the missing gods, charm them with performance and seal them with their rosaries. Ichiyou, a gifted dancer mocked for his poor singing, is ordered by the Eight Immortals to recover the Four Perils, with his familiars Tenkou and Kaka at his side, and his search is tied to his own past.