The romance hits because it skips the exhausting will-they-won't-they and goes straight to two people actually liking each other, figuring out what that means together. Every episode is a small discovery, a joke that lands, a moment where they're comfortable enough to be weird in front of each other. The show moves fast enough that it feels like something's always happening, even when nothing dramatic is occurring. It's designed for people who want to feel good about love without needing conflict to justify it.

Kyouko Hori appears to have it all at school: popularity, looks, and brains. At home she is a brash, plain homebody who has little time for friends because of the housework she handles. Izumi Miyamura, her classmate, seems gloomy, meek and distant. Nobody at school knows about the piercings and tattoos he hides, or the gentle heart under his dull exterior. When Miyamura turns up unexpectedly at Hori's door, each of them sees a side of the other that no one else has. What starts as a chance meeting quickly grows into a friendship, and the two often spend time together at Hori's home, gradually coming out of their shells. The result is a romantic slice-of-life comedy about two opposite yet oddly similar teenagers who show each other who they really are.