Kamikura Hiroki is an art student at the local school Nadesico Academy (High School and college level) whom intends to be an art teacher in the future. He is also the advisor to the high school arts society where his cousin, Housen Elis, attends. While Elis is a painter like Hiroki, Hiroki seems to have given up on his dreams and no longer paints. There appears to be some mysterious trauma in...

Although known as a school for arts, Nadesico Academy gets a new intermural coach and teacher

Hiroki is being dragged along by Elis.

A new star comes into town.

Hiroki is having a a rough morning

Something is bothering Elis to the point where she can't sleep.