Onodera Ritsu leaves his family's book business, where his co-workers thought his stature there was due to nepotism. He joins Marukawa Publishing in the hope of making an independent success for himself as a book editor. Instead, he is put in the shoujo manga (girl's comics) division. Onodera is appalled by the working methods of the department and the tyrannical behavior of the editor-in-chief, Takano Masamune. Takano has a feeling that he and Onodera have met before...