Jouji Ema, a student at an all-boys middle and high school, finds himself the target of strange and persistent attention from his quirky classmate, Miyoshi Hayashi, after a school sports festival.
Meanwhile, at a co-ed high school, Yuuichi Medaka grows increasingly uneasy when the school's eerie and shunned student, Akira Nikaidou, ends up sitting behind him.
An omnibus story woven from the complex and often awkward relationships that bloom during adolescence.