a variety of extra content through her Tumblr and a dedicated Twitter account, establishing a piece of transmedia storytelling to expand on worldbuilding.

A large fan base has accumulated around Check, Please!, and when Ukazu set up a Kickstarter campaign to fund the physical release of a first volume of the webcomic, she reached her goal with ease.

The character joins the school's hockey team, and is an instant hit with his teammates due to his cheery personality, culinary skills, and kind nature.

The webcomic follows the four years Eric spends at Samwell University in "real-time", and the plot focuses on events such as coming out, school stress, collegiate and professional athletics, and graduation.

Ukazu provides a variety of extra content through her Tumblr, answering readers' questions to the characters of the webcomic through short response comics.

Between updates, "Eric" writes tweets to fans of his vlog, an element Ukazu uses to interact with her readers and expand the narrative of the webcomic.

[4] In Year One, former figure skater Eric "Bitty" Bittle joins the Samwell Men's Hockey Team where his cheerful personality and baking wins over teammates "Shitty" Knight, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi and team manager Larissa "Lardo" Duan.

In Year Two, Bitty's fear of checking returns worse than ever due to his concussion and he faces potentially being cut from the team.

Joining the team in Bitty's sophomore year are goalie Christopher "Chowder" Chow and defensemen William "Dex" Poindexter and Derek "Nursey" Nurse.

Now friends with Jack, who faces decisions regarding his own professional hockey future, while working together on a class project, Bitty realizes that he is falling in love with his team captain, feelings which only grow deeper as time goes on.

At the end of the year, Ransom and Holster are elected co-captains while Jack, who signs with the Providence Falconers expansion team, buys a new oven to replace Bitty's old one after it breaks down for good.

Joining the team is excitable Tony "Tango" Tangredi, reserved Connor "Whiskey" Whisk and later new manager Denice Ford, a theater major, while Jack becomes close friends with Alexei "Tater" Mashkov, an extremely friendly and extroverted Russian player on the Falconers.

SMH gets knocked out of the playoffs early, but Jack's career with the Falconers soars and he is elected alternate captain partway through his rookie year while Bitty is elected captain of the Samwell team for his senior year on a rare unanimous vote.

The Falconers win the Stanley Cup and Bitty and Jack share a kiss on center ice, coming out to the world.

At the same time, Bitty leads the Samwell Men's Hockey Team through a stellar season, joined by freshmen Johnathan "Hops" Hopper, River "Bully" Bullard and the Swedish Lukas "Louis" Landmann.

Tension between Dex and Nursey after they are forced to share a room causes Dex to move into the Haus basement while Bitty accidentally discovers Whiskey kissing a lacrosse player and is frustrated by Whiskey's constant rebuffing of Bitty's efforts to befriend him.

Bitty gives a class speech encouraging people to find a place where they can be themselves and accepts Jack's marriage proposal.

She credits this to three months of research she did at Yale, as she was writing screenplay Hardy, starring a hockey player who falls in love with his best friend.

Hardy featured themes of "addiction, externalized and internalized homophobia, the anxiety of graduating and feelings of failure."

[8] A third Kickstarter campaign was begun in November 2019 so Ukazu could launch what she described as a "chirpbook," collecting Bitty's best tweets to round out the Check Please!

In April 2021, Ukazu started a final Kickstarter campaign to bring Year Four to print and quickly surpassed her original goal of $63,000.