In a Kyoto where tanuki and tengu live alongside humans, shapeshifting tanuki Yasaburo Shimogamo is the carefree third son of a family that once led the city's tanuki society. That standing collapsed when his father, Chief Souichirou, was caught and eaten in a hot pot by the human Friday Club. Yasaburo drifts between his squabbling brothers, his retired tengu master Akadama, and the alluring human-turned-tengu Benten, who belongs to the very club that killed his father.