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Sakamichi Onoda loses seemingly when his anime club at school gets disbanded. In an effort to reinstate his beloved extra vocational activity, he has to find members. Little did he know his quest would soon put him on the path to a whole new passion. Onoda decides to make a round trip to Akihabara on his old, bulky city bicycle, a weekly 90-kilometer ride he has been completing since fourth grade.

It is when he tries convincing fellow student Shunsuke Imaizumi to join his anime club is what changes things. Shunsuke Imaizumi is an avid cyclist who is wholly impressed by Onoda’s natural ability to traverse the school’s steep incline with a dated bike like his. Imaizumi challenges Onoda to a race, with the promise to join the anime club if Onoda won. And, needless to say, Onoda got swept up by the alluring competitive world of high school bicycle racing.