Yurie Hitotsubashi was a typical middle school student in the 1980s, residing in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea. She spent her days fretting about examinations and attempting to get the attention of Kenji, the naive lad she adores. Then, one day at lunch, she tells her friend Mitsue that she had become a goddess the night before. Matsuri, a classmate, eagerly seizes Yurie's newfound divinity in order to promote her family's impoverished Shinto temple. She is hoping that by replacing their unfortunate local god, Yashima-sama, with Yurie, the shrine would become more popular (and profitable). Yurie now has to grant wishes, cure curses, meet aliens, and attend deity conferences with Matsuri as her manager.