Play It Cool, Guys

Guys who are cool and good-looking, but a tiny bit awkward. This is a story of guys who pull off being cool despite not always being on the ball.

Futami Shun is a high schooler with good looks who excels at all types of sports. He is a tryhard who hates losing, and he wants to pass off his flubs as intentional.

If you were to judge Mima Takayuki by his looks and competence at work, you would not guess that he makes silly mistakes a lot. His colleagues say that he's "unofficially in charge...

Shiki Souma is a cheerful student at a vocational school who's not bothered by his own blunders; sometimes they even crack himself up. When a friend talks about her future, he real...

Hayate is about to go into the Small Animals Cafe when Takayuki approaches him because he didn't want to go into a cafe full of girls and couples by himself. Once inside together,...

"Shun is in the park after jogging with his dog Sakura when suddenly someone falls flat onto their face in front of him. That someone is Souma, who is out taking pictures of the pa...

Hayate starts his new job at the cafe Shun's sister Asami runs. But then Asami asks him to help Shun with his studying, seeing that her brother is not making any progress on his ow...

Other than tutoring Shun, Hayate also tries to get used to his new job by getting to know the other employee, Souma. But intimidated by Souma's flashy style, he keeps messing up......

Souma is worried about his older brother because when he's focused on work, he neglects food and sleep. After discussing it with his friends, Souma decides to make a bento lunch fo...

Despite it being a precious day off, Takayuki has agreed to watch his older sister's daughter Ririka. When Ririka badgers him into going to the park to have their bento lunch, Shun...

Hayate is badgered into going to a mixer by his friend who was just dumped, and thinking that he needs something to jolt some excitement into his everyday life, he reluctantly agre...

"Hayate and Takayuki have come to the stadium to cheer Shun on in his handball tournament, but for some reason Shun's friend Souma is missing. It turns out that he went onto the wr...

Takayuki has been picked to lead the project to promote a movie adaptation of a novel. In order to prepare for the meeting, he devours all the other works of the author, who curiou...

Souma is really susceptible to cracking up, and even memories will put him into laughing fits. But being self-conscious about this, he always tries to hide it. When he does this ag...

Shun gets a letter from a younger girl at school. After opening it, he realizes that it's a love letter and is about to immediately reject her when his friends stop him. Instead, t...

It's raining. Hayate forgot his newly purchased plastic umbrella at the bookstore. Luckily, Souma runs into him and they both go back to the bookstore to look for it. Once there, H...

Popular author Motoharu is not at all bothered when he makes a blunder. When he's at a meeting to discuss the promotion for the upcoming movie adaptation of one of his novels, he m...

Takayuki has been put in charge for the promotinal campaign of the movie adaption of his childhood friend's novel. Wanting to create something great for his friend Motoharu, he get...

Souma goes out with Hayate and Shun to see the movie adapation of Igarashi Motoharu's book, the movie that Takayuki did the promo campaign for. Seeing Hayate being even more excite...

Takayuki has to do the PR for a new horror game, so he ends up trying the demo with Souta and other colleagues. However, Takayuki doesn't really like gaming nor horror, so he is no...

Hayate is helping Shun with his summer homework and suggests he reads Igarashi Motoharu's novel for his book review assignment. However, Shun doesn't like reading anything but mang...

Souma invites Motoharu to go to the summer festival with Hayate, Shun, and Takayuki. After meeting Takayuki again, Motoharu also got to meet all the others. Having a natural talent...

Souta, Hayate, Shun, Souma, Takayuki, and Motoharu have made their way to the ocean. While Shun is super hyped to swim, Motoharu and Souta are more into drinking on the beach. With...

Souma has liked making things since he was little, so a friend asked him to design the cover for her self-produced CD. Despite having sent off images of the design to her, not hear...