

Season 1
24 episodes · 2005
Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi, and Morita Shinobu are college students who share the small apartment. Even though they live in poverty, the three of them are able to obtain pleasure through small things in life. The story follows these characters' life stories as poor college students, as well as their love lives when a short but talented 18 year old girl called Hanamoto Hagumi appears. (Source: Anime News Network)
E01The Day It All Began
★7An unusual transfer student arrives at the art school Takemoto attends and attracts the attention of Morita, causing him to go on a photo-taking spree on her. Mayama, Takemoto and Yamada soon discover her artistic talents.
E02The Two Affections Start to Turn
★8Morita's motive for his terrible treatment on Hagumi is revealed in his website, and the stressed out Hagumi is enraged by what but he did. However, Morita soon repays her for her troubles.
E03These Were Two Unrequited Loves
★8Takemoto, Morita and Mayama are invited over to the Hanamoto's for a dinner party after Hagumi brings back some soba from her summer vacation in Nagano.
E04The Boy and Girl Are Swayed
★8Mayama's love life still remains difficult. Hagumi feels the stress of being different from everyone. And Morita organises a Christmas party for the Christmas Eve.
E05I Think of My Mother in My Hometown
★8Takemoto reluctantly returns home for the New Year and meets Kazuo, his step-father.
E06The Past, the Tears, the Confession
★8The group visits a rather eerie zoo. Shuuji reveals to Mayamoto his history with Rika and her husband.
E07We Look for a Miracle
★8Shuuji Hanamoto has to be away for a year for a job assignment and he worries about whether he should bring his niece, Hagumi, along with him.
E08Because I Can't Leave You Alone
★6Hagumi and Ayama hold a dinner party and invite the guys over but it soon turns out that it's a special day for one of them.
E09That Brooch Was So Heavy
★8Everyone is working late preparing their exhibits for the school festival including Hagumi, who has trouble with her wax work.
E10We Fly Across the Sky
★9The five friends decide to take a ferry ride over the Sumida river and visit the Kasai Seaside Park.
E11Love Pushes Us Around
★7Shuuji returns unexpectedly from Mongolia. And Hagumi goes on a shopping trip with Morita.
E12The Sudden Kiss, the Unexpected Parting
★7It's the sakura season and the gang are absorbed in the array of activities celebrating the sakura festival. Hagumi catches one of her wisdom fevers. And Takemoto meets Morita's brother, Kaoru, and learns of news regarding Morita.
E13All I Wanted to Hear Was That Little Thing
★7The episode starts with Takamoto feelings about what he wanted Hagu to answer for her wanting Morita to come back or not.
E14I Touched Her in My Dream
★8Mayama dreamed of Rika-san. His co-worker said when one dreamed of another, that was because the person in the dream wanted them to meet so much that the soul escaped the body and came to the dream.
E15My Cowardly Self Starts Running
★7Mayama's work is going well, but he still misses Rika-san. Her current assistant suddenly has health problem and needs to stay in hospital.
E16The Moon Is Calling Her
The firm Mayama was about to be apart. For some intentional purpose, his boss put him into the group of people who have to leave Tokyo to another place. At the same time, Rika-san's assistant was is hospital and she hasn't been able to find a replacement.
E17I Don't Even Know How I Feel
Having lost Mayama from the Fujiwara Design Office, Miwako expresses her depression by buying a massage chair for their new office.
E18He Came Back
On his first new project, Takumi must collaborate Fujiwara Design Office - the design company where he just resigned. When he visits the office for a meeting, he is surprised to run into Ayumi.
E19Time Begins to Move Again
Mayama arrives at the Fujiwara Design Office, only to found out that Yamada is there. After she leaves abruptly, Mayama mistakes Nomiya's business interest with Yamada for his love interest.
E20I Pray to the Moon Hovering in the Night Sky
Nomiya calls Yamazaki and Miwako to the office early in the morning to assist a drunken Yamada to her father's house.
E21I've Always Been Scared
★5Takemoto meets with Professor Hanamoto and a businessman. The businessman offers Takemoto a job, and Takemoto quickly accepts the job. Takemoto celebrates this occasion with Morita, Mayama, Hagu, Professor Hanamoto, and Yamada.
E22Like a Flower Getting Wet in the Rain
★8Takemoto travels to many houses to get water to drink. Miwako text messages for Yamada to Nomiya, as she wonders how he is doing. Hagu believes that she is selfish for not displaying her paintings.
E23And So, I Begin to Run
★7Yuta begins to travel by bike again. The bike, map and traveling gear he's borrowed from Shin are very reliable. The people he meets along the way, scenery he sees for the first time in his life, new experiences and even the many difficulties he encounters make him think differently about his life.
E24We're a Continuously Spinning Ferris Wheel
★8Takemoto views the map the night before he starts traveling the next morning. He comes across a store near a school, and ends up eating sweet rolls.
