西村茜は内気で陰気な小学生の女の子で、その見た目のせいでクラスでは根拠もなくひどい評判を受けている。Akane Nishimura is a shy and gloomy elementary school girl with an unfounded dire reputation in her class due to her appearance. Taiyou Takada is a transfer student in her class who came from a small countryside school, and who is fascinated by the aspects of Nishimura that her classmates use to pick on her, finding her "darkness" cool beyond compare. Through the unbridled and fundamental joy Takada finds in being her friend, Nishimura starts realizing that being herself is not as bad as she thinks.