First-year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that "concept is everything" in animation. While she spends her time doodling endless ideas and settings in her sketchbook, she hasn't taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can't do it alone. After Asakusa's money-loving best friend Sayaka Kanamori notices her genius and drive – and when it becomes clear that their classmate and charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki wants to be an animator – the energetic trio start an animation club. Together, the three aim to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds, as they come to see the power that fiction and imagination have on their lives and the world around them.

落英缤纷的季节，律师樱木建二（阿部宽饰）走在去龙山高中的路上。他巧遇了与流氓打架的矢岛勇介（山下智久饰），还有撕掉不及格考卷的水野直美（长泽雅美饰）。这两人都是龙山高中三年级的学生，实际上，龙山高中因为经营不善、升学率低下已经变成被人嘲笑、遗忘的破烂高中，而樱木建二这次到访，也是来处理该校申请破产的事宜。不过，樱木建二并不甘于草草了事，曾经是暴走族的他，想要做出轰动全日本的大事。一个热血的想法在他脑中萌发：带领龙山高中的笨蛋学生们考取日本第一的大学——东京大学。于是，樱木建二与英语教师井野真真子（长谷川京子饰）一起开始了这个不可能完成的教学任务。