Uruno, a useless wolf, is on the road searching for a new place to call home. He soon encounters a forest full of "useless animals"—that is, animals that do not live up to their species' usual character. After a brief fight with Usahara, a smoking, bad-tempered rabbit, Uruno decides he wants to move on... but changes his mind upon meeting Chiiko, a clumsy cheetah girl. It is love at first sight for Uruno, and after deciding to stay for her, he continues to hope that even though he is a good-for-nothing, he will win her over someday. That is, if living with the other strange residents of the forest—including the aforementioned smoking rabbit, a sake-drinking unicorn, a near-sighted eagle, an orca that cannot swim, and a shy pegasus—does not get to him first.