Negative Positive Angler

College student Sasaki Tsunehiro is down in the dumps. After a life of repeated failures, he's been given two years to live. He slips and falls off a bridge as he's chased down by loan sharks.

Hiro returns to his apartment building only to find it being demolished. Takaaki takes him in and presses him into working at Everymart along with his friends. When his new coworkers learn he doesn't like fishing, he gets reeled into…

When a huge bounty is put on catching a houndshark, all the anglers rush to be the first to catch it. To their surprise, they find Hiro fishing for the shark in an attempt to pay off some of his debts.

Hiro settles into working at the Everymart, but quickly finds himself struggling to understand all the fishing equipment he's responsible for selling. Hana steps in to teach him about lures.

Hiro gets his first paycheck from Everymart and is immediately dragged to a fishing equipment store, where Hana and Kozue tempt him to make irresponsible financial decisions.

When a customer arrives at Everymart whose language Tsunehiro does not understand, Ice comes to his rescue. As a result, the two get to know each other better, and Ice invites Tsunehiro to go sailing to the open sea with the entire group.

The anglers from Everymart have arranged to go sardine hunting over the weekend. However, Tsunehiro would much rather go fishing for large predatory fish, like he has seen on television.

Machida gets some time with his son on Sunday. He decides to take him out fishing, but his son is an indoorsy gamer who might not be interested.

An approaching typhoon has left the Everymart employees stuck inside the convenience store. Since there are no customers, Hiro and his friends have free time to relax. But then the loan sharks who were chasing Hiro show up.

Machida ends up in the hospital with a skateboard injury. The hospital happens to be the same one Tsunehiro got his diagnosis at.

Takaaki is nowhere to be found, and Tsunehiro is filling in for him at work. The little information provided by Sasaki is fueling the imaginations of the convenience store colleagues.

Takaaki and Hiro run into each other on a bridge, where they had both planned to fish for sea bass. Takaaki is still reluctant to hear what Hiro has to say.