takemichi hanagaki is young but already hopeless. he lives in a hovel, is treated like an idiot at his part-time job, and despite himself, is still a virgin. one day he is hit by terrible news: hinata tachibana, his girlfriend from middle school, the only girlfriend he has ever had, is dead, killed by a group of delinquents known as the tokyo manji gang. suddenly takemichi finds himself back in the past, when he was in middle school! an inexplicable and absurd fact that gives the boy the opportunity to save sweet hinata, if only, to do so, he doesn't have to climb the hierarchies of the most dangerous and violent gang in all of kanto!
