Takashi is in the same high school as Tachibana Akira and joins the family restaurant, Garden as a part-time kitchen helper.

He is a funny and endearing person to those he meets, such as Nishida and Kondo. He can be pretty dense and sees only goodness in other people, even though they might be making fun of him or in fact, criticizing him negatively. His kind nature makes others take to him immediately even if it has disastrous effects, such as Nishida giving him a weird haircut with her novice skills. He can be a huge klutz, breaking many dishes while distracted and burning the toast for Akira's lunch. When his eyes are set on a person he likes, he pursues them ardently.

Akira Tachibana was once the ace of a track club, but an injury forced her to quell her passion for sports. Masami Kondou, a divorced father, had ambitions of being a writer and now manages a restaurant, where Akira works. It is the intersection of Akira and Masami’s seemingly disconnected lives that makes each of them reconsider and redefine everything about themselves. 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

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On October 30, 2023, BaRu announced that Ikeda had been arrested in connection with a bank fraud scam and had been released from his contract with the company as of October 27.

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Notes:
 
- Includes the epilogue. 
- The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.

Takashi Yoshizawa