The show treats middle school crushes like they matter, because to the people living them, they absolutely do. Each episode pivots to a new character's perspective, so you're constantly discovering that the awkward confession you watched three episodes ago has been quietly reshaping someone else's entire world. By the end, the love web is so tangled that you can't separate whose feelings are whose, and that messy overlap is exactly what makes it real.
Adolescence is full of romantic trouble, and a rotating cast of middle and high school students finds this out as their first loves start to overlap in tangled ways. Each episode centers on a different character, but nothing stays separate: what happens earlier keeps playing a smaller part in later stories, linking storylines that seemed unrelated. Middle schooler Ayumi Arihara has always longed for a boy to confess to her, and she gets her wish when the huge, frightening high schooler Misao Zaitsu sends her a love letter. Overwhelmed, she faints in class and is carried to the infirmary by a cute classmate, only to fall for him and learn he is Misao's younger brother, Mamoru. Her friends face first love troubles of their own. The mix of comedy, ecchi and romance lets these crushes grow into an increasingly strange and unexpected web of feelings over the season.
