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Naoya Inaba (Yuto Nakajima) grew up abroad. From his childhood experience, he thought “yankees” were the strongest heroes (in Japan "yankee" refers to delinquent youths). He was also influenced by the Japanese yankee manga he read from abroad. Because of his own experiences and reading manga, he is full of chivalrous spirit. Naoya arrives in Japan to spend one year at a high school in Japan. He is transferred to a technical high school which is about to be closed down. Naoya admires the school because a yankee, who he admired as a child, went there, but he soon realizes that there are no real yankee like hero figures. There are only students who spends there days meaninglessly. Naoya is disappointed, but he happens to play water polo.

As graduation approaches, Zhou Zhiyuan is inspired by his sister's water polo coach to revive his school's struggling team. He recruits a mix of veteran players, a rejected basketball player, and a former water polo prodigy. Together, they face challenges both on and off the field, from competing for practice space to overcoming doubts within the team. Despite conflicts and setbacks, they persevere, ultimately chasing their shared dream of water polo success.

Minato is a boy who stopped playing water polo due to a certain incident in the winter of his third middle school year. He picks the sport back up again with a new team when he starts in high school, but the fledgling team runs into many problems.

A coming-of-age story of friendship, love, hope, mistakes, backstabbing, and competition.