Yes, No, or Maybe?

Every evening a polite young man smiles into a camera and reads the news, and every evening a voice in his head calls the people around him a crowd of fools. That is Kei Kunieda, the hero of Yes, No, or Maybe?, and the gap between those two Keis is the whole engine of the story.

Kei works at Touzai TV as the sub MC of the evening news show Evening File. Colleagues call him the prince: clever, elegant, easy to like. At home the crown comes off. He lives in whatever clothes are nearest, eats whatever is fastest, and saves his sharpest remarks for his own living room. He is also a hard worker, and most of that work goes into keeping the public Kei flawless.

Ushio Tsuzuki is his opposite. He is a rising animation artist whose stop motion film from his student days drew attention on a video site and won an international award. Ushio has no on switch and no off switch. He says what he thinks and does not care how anyone reads him. When Touzai TV hires him to make the opening sequence for its late night flagship The News, Kei is sent to interview him.

That should have been the end of it. Then something happens that turns the situation upside down, and Kei starts meeting Ushio in private under a false name, Owari, hiding who he is. Ushio grows closer to Owari without guessing the truth. Between pride in their work and feelings neither planned, the two start to see each other's weak spots and honest faces, and a love story begins with a first impression that could hardly have gone lower.