Since he quit his job as a surgeon 8 years ago, Kohei Moriyama has been working at an eventless town office. The local municipal hospital in this town is suffering from a lack of doctors, burdened with huge debt, and is about to go bankrupt. As a means of restructuring the hospital, they are trying to shift the target customers for the hospital operations to the wealthy. Upon meeting Aiko Tanaka, who devotes herself single-mindedly to patients in contrast to the attitude of the hospital management, Kohei begins to regain the medical career he once lost.

Akane Kagura, the heroine of the story, is a genius in Teppanyaki (hot plate cooking). As she sets out on a journey to find her missing father, she confronts other cooks wherever she goes.
Armed with a food vending vehicle and the good old iron plate her father has left with her, she grows as she battles against rival cooks from place to place.

Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, and finds popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long..., and so their adventure begins.

Due to his lack of drive, Shiro has failed the university entrance exams three times and just can’t seem to do anything right. When Shiro starts to contemplate why somebody like him is living at all, a mysterious man named Tendo appears, calling himself an “angel.” Tendo warns Shiro that his death is just around the corner if he does not push himself harder. Shiro takes the initiative and ends up saving someone else from an untimely death. In this way, Shiro avoids one brush with death after another by listening to Tendo’s frustrating riddles. With a lot of laughter and a few tears, Shiro’s trial teaches the secret to living a full life is hard work and confidence.