White Album
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | WHITE ALBUM |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Jan 4, 2009 [16 years 3 weeks ago] |
| Ended: | Mar 29, 2009 [15 years 10 months ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | ANIDB |
Fujii Touya, a college student, is dating a rising idol singer named Morikawa Yuki. There are numerous challenges to the couple's relationship from the other people at Fujii's college, Morikawa's work, and elsewhere.
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Episode 1: Yes, Maybe the Button Was Already Pushed by Then.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-01-04
November, 1986. Second-year student at Yunagi university, Touya Fuji, is having a nightmare one morning. The dream is about his girlfriend and newly-cast idol, Yuki Morikawa. Touya oversleeps and misses his first day of a part-time job. He is promptly fired and reluctantly goes to school. There, he bumps into Yuka who is on her way to a taping of a TV show. The two of them have a brief chat. Touya's college sempai, Misaki Sawakura, gives him some advice which rattles him a bit: "You'll be seeing even less of her going forward." Thanks to an introduction by his good friend, Akira Nanase, Touya lands a job working at Echoes cafe. At the same time, Yuki is about to film a TV shoot with her sempai from her agency, Rina Ogata. Yuki, having a minor role in the shoot, ends up being disliked by a group of idols known as Sakuradan. They pull a nasty stunt on her...
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Episode 2: Do You Believe in Long-destined Encounters?
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-01-11
Yuki stops by music star-turned-studio president, Eiji Ogata's home, after finishing shooting a TV shoot. At the same time, Touya is paid a surprise visit by his childhood friend, and college classmate, Haruka Kawashima. The two of them go for a walk together. Yuki finds Rina crying in Eiji's bedroom and wonders what's going on. The next day, two girls clad in poor disguises come to cafe Echoes where Touya is working. It turns out to be Rina and Yuki. Yuki leaves to go to work and Rina, alone at this point, writes a message for Touya on a napkin: "Can I have your phone number?"
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Episode 3: Hand in Hand, Shoulder to Shoulder, Back to Back, and Then... We Don't Have to Take Off Our Clothes.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-01-18
Rina offers Touya a part time job "Helping out her manager."
It starts tomorrow, she says, and he can do it without quitting his job at Echoes.
Touya cancels his job as a tutor, more out of a desire to see Yuki than interest in the job itself.
When he goes to the studio the next day, Rina's manager is fired, and Eiji promotes him from help to official manager despite his inexperience.
But his manner during the recording offends Rina, and she becomes infuriated at him.
What does Rina really think?
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Episode 4: Sometimes You Feel Like You Understand Someone Beyond Imagination. A Lot of Times It's the Opposite Though.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-01-25
Saturday, thanks to Rina's intervention, Touya and Yuki are able to go on their first date in a long time.
They decide to go to their old high school, Harugasaki High. There, Yuki will reveal half of her secret.
Early that morning, Rina tells Touya that the time and place of the date have changed, in an attempt to have time with him for herself.
But Touya accidentally messes up the time and place that Rina designated.
While waiting anxiously for Yuki, Touya meets a senior at Hotarugaki High, Mana Mizuki.
Touya finds himself at a loss due to her strong and free-willed manner.
The two of them head for Hotarugaki High, but...
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Episode 5: It's Not Only Those Who Are Close to You That Get in Your Way. The Less You Know Someone, the Harsher You Are.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-02-01
The next day, Yuki's manager, Yayoi Shinozuka, is waiting for Touya.
She tells him that their thoughtless actions are perfect bait for celebrity gossip magazines.
Yayoi tells him of a trap that Rina once fell into, and subtly hints that he should break up with Yuki.
That evening, Yayoi suddenly visits Touya at his home, and unable to refuse her request, he finds himself going out with her. On the way back in the car, she steals a kiss from him.
Touya flees from her back to his room, and there he sees the script that Misaki wrote for the drama club's school fair play.
As he flips through the pages, his phone rings...
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Episode 6: A Good Way to Forget Your Troubles... How About Getting Involved in Somebody Else's?
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-02-08
I won't fall asleep tonight.
I'm waiting.
Touya receives this message from Yuki via Haruka. While he considers how to respond, he gets a call from a frantic Misaki.
Her script itself was accepted by the Drama Club, but the Drama Club president, with whom she has a past with, is forcing her to make all the props and clothes herself. The time limit is two weeks.
Touya happily offers to help Misaki, and she begins to calm down. After he gets off the phone, he runs to Yuki's apartment, but finds Yayoi's car parked in front. He turns around and leaves. The next day he reconsiders and goes back, but she isn't there.
At the same time, Yuki is in Studio Tri-Sad, beginning the recording of the debut single that Eiji wrote for her, "White Album"...
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Episode 7: A Mental Image Is Something That Needs Constant Building Up. It Crumbles Easily.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-02-15
Yuki successfully finishes the recording of her debut single, "White Album." Meanwhile, Misaki is staying at Touya's father's house, as the two of them work to make the props and clothes.
The next day, Touya visits the Mizuki household for his tutor job, where he was previously sent away before even coming inside.
There he meets the girl he saw on the day of his date with Yuki, Mana.
Mana surprises him by easily clearing all the problems he gives her.
On his way back, he finds that Misaki has come to the station to meet him. The two of them stop at Echoes to have dinner, and during their meal, Rina drops by...
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Episode 8: The Less Time You Have, the More You Can Do. The More You Do. Of Course, Love Is No Exception.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-02-22
Touya is stunned by Rina's overwhelming vocals.
Eiji as well is so impressed he says that "he has nothing else to do."
But at the same time he listens to the recording of Yuki's "incomplete" vocals, and runs out of the studio.
Rina chases him down and talks to him about herself and Eiji, as well as Yuki's music.
At the same time, a mentally imbalanced Haruka is wandering the streets, and is harassed by two men. She's saved by Mana, who happens to pass by.
Touya is spending his days working with Misaki, the work getting more and more frantic as the deadline approaches...
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Episode 9: Memories Don't Need to Be Prettied Up Like a Play. The Minute You Say Them Aloud, They're All Lies.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-03-01
The day of the big rehersal for the drama club play, Touya and Misaki finish the props and clothes. However, Tamaru insists that they change the color to "monotone."
In desperation, Touya and Misaki turn to Touya's father for help. The three work all night and manage to get the work done, but Touya oversleeps and misses Yuki's appearance at the fair. The next day is the day of the play, but the two of them are sent away before they can see it by Tamaru.
An infuriated Misaki takes Touya and sneaks into the closed second floor of the Hall, but...
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Episode 10: Sumo Wrestling by Yourself Isn't Lonely Just Because You Don't Have a Partner. The Eyes of the Audience Sting, Too.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-03-08
The injured Misaki spends a night at the hopsital, and finds herself rapidly growing closer with Akira, who stayed with her the whole time. Due to a secret agreement between the head of M&M Music (The company representing the Sakuradan), Itsuki
Kanzaki, and Ogata Productions' Eiji, Rina is forced to change the venue she was going to perform her concert in.
She angrily agrees to the change, but on one condition: Touya must be hired again as her private staff. As a show of her resolution towards the concert, Yuki entrusts Yayoi with a letter for Touya.
Touya visited "Echoes" with Rina, and speaks with Misaki, but is rudely brushed off by Akira. Drawing inspiration from a conversation she had with Touya, Rina comes up with a bold plan for Christmas Eve...
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Episode 11: Time Won't Take Care of the Feelings Building Up in Your Heart. It Just Labels Them "Forgotten."
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-03-15
Eiji reveals his secret agreement for the Christmas concert: a match to see who can bring in more fans.
Rina interrogates Yayoi about a letter she discovered in the office trash can, but the answer she gets is...
The perfectionist Rina begins a grueling rehearsal schedule for the Christmas Eve concert. Right beside her is Touya, who is there as part of his "job".
Mana has gotten close enough to Haruka that the two of them are going biking together.
Meanwhile, Touya is troubled over his feelings for Yuki, and reveals them to Yayoi...
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Episode 12: Tying Down. Deceiving. Stealing. Giving. More Painful Than All of Them Is Waiting.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-03-22
Touya reveals his relationship with Yayoi to Rina but she takes him to task, telling him it’s too dangerous. The next day, Rina goes to wait for Touya in the VIP room at the end of his work day at Echoes, but Touya leaves with Yayoi in her car. Yayoi invites Touya into her bedroom and he soon finds himself in over his head. Backstage at Club Calma, Rina reads aloud a letter from Yuki addressed to Touya. Touya, realizing Yuki’s true feelings as well as his own, tearfully rushes out of the room. Touya is determined to make it to Yuki’s concert, but he can’t get ahold of the all-important ticket. Things look bleak for Touya until his friends come through for him...
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Episode 13: Even Though the Glass Was Tipped over, Didn't You Notice? Not Even One Drop of Water Remained.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-03-29
At long last, the Christmas concert begins, full of emotions and feelings. Touya shows up at the Yunagi Koukaidou for Yuki's concert. He gazes at her up on stage from the audience.
The lyrics of her debut song, "White Album" bring out memories of all the times the two shared.
Saying to herself, "It isn't over yet," finishes her climactic concert at Club Calma. Immediately, without even stopping to rest, she dashes off. But to where...? Backstage, after the concert, Touya gets a rather large gift from Yuki. Before parting ways, Yuki whispers to him, "I love you."
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