Hayato actually acts like a functional adult instead of a stammering teenager, which means the romance lands like actual human connection instead of a panic attack. The five women have real jobs, real problems, real reasons for being there, they're not just archetypes waiting to blush at him. The café itself becomes the actual heart of the show, a place where something genuine gets built instead of just a excuse to cycle through fanservice scenes.

Hayato returns home to claim his late grandmother's seaside café, expecting an easy sale. Instead, he finds five women living in the building, taken in by his grandmother before her death and devoted to the place they call home. They plead with him to keep the shop running, and against his better judgment, he agrees. Now he has to manage a struggling café while sharing a roof with an unruly group of housemates. Running the business forces them all to work together, and the result is a romantic comedy with a healthy dose of ecchi humor. Along the way, Hayato recalls his memories of his grandmother and his old fondness for the café, and he decides to carry on what she started.