Kotarou Oohira is a boy with a clueless touch-he has an unusual type of ESP that is transmitted via physical contact. When he accidentally gives his cousin Tatsuki this "gift" he comes to realize that there is much more to his powers than he ever imagined!
Kotarou is totally stoked that the basketball season has started and he can now fulfill his high school hoop dreams. While polishing his technique for his man-to-man defense, thing slook even brighter when he meets Mio, a babe-alicious upperclassman who has an eye for Kotarou. Unfortunately, another new girl also arrives on the scene: Chiba, a femme fatale with a eye for protecting Mio. With trouble stirring all around, Tatsuki and Yuuto must use their ESP to make sure there is no foul play!Known throughout the manga world, veteran manga-ka Kasane Katsumoto has delivered a close-to-home fantasy filled with action and intrigue.
When student-teacher Udou-sensei shows up at the head of the class, he turns the boys' lives upside-down! As if Tasuki weren't being put through the wringer enough, Yuuto and Kotarou meet Karen, a beautiful but nosy photographer that ends up pulling the boys into her dangerous world. When Tatsuki's powers begin to act strangely, he suddenly realizes that controlling them is as difficult as ever. But despite the stress, could that be a bit of ice slowly melting from his cold heart?
Thrown in jail for a crime he didn't commit, Tatsuki spirals closer to an emotional breakdown. He keeps his feelings to himself, leaving him teetering perilously close to the edge. Meanwhile, Yuuto has a run-in with a part of his past that he's not quire ready to face. Then there's Akira, the sweet neighborhood kid who befriends Kotarou and seems completely an happily harmless. But in this "touching" comedic drama filled with cute boys, the paranormal, and lots of angst, when is anything what it seems?
Into our cast waltzes another teenage pretty boy...and does he have a chip on his shoulder! Mercurial but charming, Kazuma instantly forms a bond with Kotarou. But when Kazuma begins to play cruel emotional games with Tatsuki. Kotarou notices Tatsuki sinking into depression. What's a friend to do? Kotarou and Tatsuki are cousins and childhood buds, aren't they? Maybe now it's time to prove it!
Mio and Karen meet at last in a mystery that brings everyone a bit closer. But a strange new manifestation of Kotarou's power begins to surface, and Kotarou notices that his touch is less than normal. Meanwhile, Kazuma confronts Tatsuki with an eerie message that puts Tatsuki on the edge - with danger on the way, will Tatsuki be ready when it finally hits?
Things begin to crumble after Tatsuki and Kazuma fall out of touch with the world and start spiraling out of control. It's up to all the characters to intervene, including old and new acquaintances alike...making way for an entirely different set of complications. Can things possibly get any worse? And why does Akira always seem to be at the center of the trouble? Will the mystery leave even more unanswered questions in this next volume of Hands Off!?
The missing pieces of the puzzle brought to light by Tatsuki's kidnapping slowly fall into place. As usual, Tatsuki is trying to solve all problems by himself - but things aren't so simple this time. Now Kotarou must at last face his past, present, and future if he's to discover the secret of his power and link it holds to Tatsuki. But at what cost?Prepare for the mind-bending conclusion of Hands Off! and the fate of three friends blessed and cursed with ESP...