Two people who should hate each other have to fake being a couple for a grade, and somehow the show makes you believe they're genuinely becoming something neither of them planned for. The animation is so consistently sharp it makes mundane moments, a shared breakfast, walking to school together, feel like they matter more than they should. By the end you're rooting for two people to admit what the show already knows: that the practical was just an excuse to test something real.

Jirou is a quiet third-year high school student in love with his childhood friend and classmate Shiori. His school runs a mandatory "Couple Practical," in which randomly chosen boy-girl pairs live together as pretend married couples while cameras monitor them and grade how well they get along. Jirou hopes to be matched with Shiori. Instead, he gets Akari, a lively gyaru who is his complete opposite. Akari has her own disappointment: she wanted to be paired with her crush, the popular Minami, but he has been assigned to Shiori. Stuck together, Jirou and Akari reluctantly agree to cooperate. The top ten pairs earn the right to trade partners if both couples consent, so the two push themselves to act like an ideal married couple in the hope of ending up with the people they actually want. The show is a romantic comedy with drama and ecchi elements, based on a manga by Kanamaru Yuki.