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A high school student with outstanding guitar technique, Tatsunatsu Uenoyama meets a mysterious classmate, Satou Mafuyu, who holds a Gibson with a broken string at the landing of the stairs leading to the roof of the school. Uenoyama takes…

Ritsuka makes an offer to let Mafuyu join his band after being shocked by his vocal abilities.

In order to try to convince Mafuyu to join their band, Ritsuka takes the song that Mafuyu has stuck in his head and arranges it a bit. Mafuyu is a very quick learner and progressing pretty quickly with playing guitar and the band is on a r…

Mafuyu has been on Ritsuka's mind lately and while they're at band practice, he keeps pointing out everything Mafuyu is doing wrong and can't seem to hide his frustrations. Meanwhile, Mafuyu still hasn't written any lyrics. Akihiko propose…

Ritsuka is scared of the lyrics Mafuyu is going to come up with and Ritsuka can't sort through his feelings. Meanwhile, Mafuyu's childhood friend Hiiragi tells Mafuyu that he regrets knowing everything that happened between him and his for…

Ritsuka realizes how he truly feels and ends up taking out his frustrations and confusion on Mafuyu. Ritsuka ends up talking to Akihiko, who tells him that what he’s feeling is completely normal, but Ritsuka still wonders if it’s okay to a…

As the day of the live show approaches, the season heads into the rainy season and the high school boys have finals. While Mafuyu has trouble coming up with lyrics, he gets visited by his childhood friend, Hiiragi Kashima, who was also Yuk…

On the day of the concert Ritsuka and Mafuyu get into a little spat and one of the strings on Mafuyu’s guitar breaks. Haruki tells Ritsuka to run and buy new strings, and Ritsuka then realizes that Mafuyu’s been trying to do everything he …

Ritsuka comes to the realization that he was so worked up at the concert that he kissed Mafuyu. Ritsuka hears that Mafuyu didn’t come to school because he had a fever, so he decides to go visit him. The next day, Mafuyu is feeling better a…

Mafuyu tells Ritsuka that he likes him and Ritsuka is ecstatic to find out that they both like each other but at the same time, he remembers himself saying that band members should never bring relationships into the band. However, they bot…