B-kyuu Gourmet Club

*B-Grade* follows two men whose lives first intertwined during their high school days, and who now cross paths again a few years after graduation. Back then, the younger of the two had come out as gay, while the other—an upperclassman with a frightening reputation—was the one who, in his own gruff and offhand way, more or less looked after him. Neither could have predicted how their paths would reconnect. Several years later, the two find themselves working at the same company, their old school dynamic resurfacing between office desks rather than classroom walls. For the junior of the pair, the reunion is far from simple. The openness he showed in his youth has given way to caution, and in his professional life he remains firmly closeted, keeping that part of himself hidden from everyone around him. With the one person from his past who knew him at his most honest now just a few desks away, he must navigate the tension between the carefully maintained facade he has built and the memories—and the man—that refuse to fade.