Yurie wakes up one morning as a god and immediately has no idea what to do about it. Her friends treat this the way actual junior high students would treat a friend suddenly having cosmic powers: they help her figure it out, they worry about her grades, they make jokes. The show's genius is that it never pretends being divine is anything other than an ordinary problem dressed up in strange clothes, and that recognition, that refusal to make magic into spectacle, is what makes it work.

Yurie Hitotsubashi is an average middle school student in Onomichi, a town on Japan's Inland Sea, in the 1980s, until she tells her friend Mitsue over lunch that she became a goddess the night before. Classmate Matsuri sees a chance to revive her family's struggling shrine and appoints herself Yurie's manager. Now Yurie has to grant wishes, lift curses, meet aliens and attend gathering after gathering of gods, all while keeping up with school. She also still can't get Kenji, the oblivious boy she likes, to notice her. The result is a gentle supernatural comedy about everyday life with a very unusual new job.