Seventeen-year-old Hikigaya Hachiman is a young cynic and pessimist, convinced that “spring of youth,” friendship, and love are nothing but deception, lies, and fiction—and that maintaining this myth is a collective conspiracy of those who got burned and got nothing, yet don’t want to admit the obvious. Young teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka finds she can’t convince her troublesome student and sends him to a “service club,” whose only official member is the school’s first beauty, Yukinoshita Yukino. But maybe, in truth, the sensei isn’t as simple as she seems—and realizes that help is needed for both of them?