Takeo Gōda, a towering and intimidating high-school first-year, has never had a girl like him back — they always fall for his handsome best friend Makoto Sunakawa instead. When Takeo rescues a petite girl named Rinko Yamato from a groper on the train, she develops a crush on him, not Sunakawa, but Takeo is too dense to notice. Sunakawa, quietly loyal, tries to nudge Takeo toward the obvious before the misunderstanding drives Rinko away.