A charming restaurant owner meets a relocated, divorced office worker in Osaka, sparking an instant first-sight love affair.
Murata and Tomoka, who are both tired of their past relationships meet at an offline game meeting and end up becoming friends before heading to a love hotel. The two hit it off and as they continue to meet their relationship progresses into an unusual "loose and easy-going" one where they can talk about anything, while having a good time together. The daily life of Murata and Tomoka, who have become "freedom friends" (friends with benefits) begins...
Detective Suzunosuke Shikahama is currently suspended from work after a screw up. He gets together with Haruhi Mabuchi from the Administration Bureau, Sesuna Tsumiki from the Community Safety Bureau, and Ruka Kotori from Accounting. All from different departments and carrying their own baggage, the four join forces. They’re not exactly what you would call champions of justice. They’re not even ambitious enough to go for success. All they want is the truth.
A popular English teacher, Mizuguchi Risako has been kidnapped three days before the high school's graduation ceremony. Four high school seniors received a mysterious challenge letter, asking them to solve the mystery of the kidnapping case within 72 hours. The four students are Kurokawa Yoshiki, his childhood friend Takahata Ayane, sports all-rounder Ogita Junpei, and school's beauty contest winner Komatsu Mio. The four students were wondering why they're the only ones who received the letter, but later gradually found out the "other face" of Mizuguchi which she has been hiding.
Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends him to the grasslands of Mongolia where he is to search for a daughter born out of Saburo's relationship with a local woman after the Second World War.