A girl walks into a house full of strangers and the show spends 48 episodes letting you watch four different love stories bloom at their actual pace, no shortcuts. Kasumi's confusion becomes your confusion, her small victories feel earned because Adachi refuses to rush anything, and by episode 20 you've stopped waiting for the plot to move and started living in these characters' ordinary days. The romance doesn't explode; it settles into you like a song you didn't know you needed.

Fifteen-year-old Kishimoto Kasumi moves into her aunt's house in April so she can attend high school. When she arrives, she is surprised to learn that four new male students already live there. Things get worse that same day, when Takasugi Yusaku, one of the boys, walks in on her while she is bathing. So begins a troublesome stretch of high school life for Kasumi in this TV comedy with romance and sports elements.