White Album (2009)
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | WHITE ALBUM (2009) |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Oct 3, 2009 [15 years 3 months ago] |
| Ended: | Dec 24, 2009 [15 years 1 month ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | MAL ANIDB ANN ANILIST |
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: I've Never Been Able to Tune Properly. I Keep Thinking That It Could Sound Better.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-10-03
After the Christmas Eve concert, Touya's father collapses, due to a longstanding condition, and is hospitalized. The next day, Yuki goes to visit him but missed Touya on his way out. Itsuki Kanzaki, after blowing off the Christmas Eve concert, is scolded, and the missing M&MM agency's star singer, Menou Akiyama, is discovered. Eiji then stands before a painting after winning the spoils of war in his "mobilization value" bet.
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Episode 2: The Things You Can't Find Will Destroy What's Around You. Because They're Not There, There's Nothing That Can Be Done.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-10-10
After Eiji stops giving Yuki her lesson, she decides to stop by and visit Touya's father in the hospital.
Yuki and Touya chat on top of the building. Yuki begins to be really hard on herself. She then breaks down and cries in front of Touya. She then takes her usual "seat" on Touya's back and calms down.
Then, on New Years Eve, Yuki goes to Touya's apartment. The two bring in the new year kissing. This is how 1987 begins...
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Episode 3: When I Think Back to My Childhood, the Embarrassment I Feel Is Agonizing. Compared to That...
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-10-17
Touya's father planned to spend the New Year’s holiday at home, but his condition suddenly worsens and he has to return to the hospital. Touya is saddened and disappointed in his father's condition.
A few days later, a meeting is held at Ogata Productions. It is about the Venus Festival, a musical competition for young female singers which is held every February. Rina has never been given a chance to enter it before...
The rule is set that each production company may only send one group or singer to the competition. Rina, realizing what was going on in Eiji's mind, suddenly declares she is going independence, and walks out...
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Episode 4: There Are Lies One Wants Exposed. There Are Truths One Does Not Want to Believe In. There Is One of Each.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-10-24
Upon declaring independence from Ogata Productions, Rina leaves. Yuki chases her in the rain and desperately begs her to return. Rina has made up her mind and will not be convinced to go back.
After regaining her composure, Yuki reminisces about recording White Album with Rina...
While this is going on, Eiji is paid a visit by Itsuki and a consultant sent to regain a picture that wasn't theirs to give away. However, this is really just one of Itsuki's plots...
Eiji offers his Tri-Sad studio, but the price won't cover the painting...So what will Eiji offer to pay for it...?
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Episode 5: Don't Bugs Have It Too Easy? They Shut Themselves Away in Their Shells, and Yet They're Claustrophobic.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-10-31
It is revealed, at a press conference, that Rina will be transferring to Itsuki Kanzaki's rival agency, M&MM. In the same press conference, Sakuradan announces that they are disbanding and that their vice-leader, Sarii, will be going solo.
Yuki visits Touya's father in the hospital by herself. The two begin to discuss his son...
Touya goes to the dressing room at the TV station to catch Rina after she finishes her last gig for Ogata Productions. Rina tries to put up a strong front, but melts in Touya's arms when he puts them around her. "Kiss me, Fuji-kun."
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Episode 6: They Usually Say You Move On to the Next When You're Bored with What You Have. Although, I Usually Seem to Be Bored Well Before Moving On.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-11-07
Rina informs Yuki directly that her and Touya just kissed after showing up at her dressing room. To muddy the waters further, Touya joins Rina at M&MM as her assistant.
After this devastating blow, Yuki tries to distract herself from the pain by biting her wrist as she hears Rina's painful words. The next week, as Rina and Touya begin their job at M&MM, Itsuki orders the two of them to sit in on Menou's recording session.
At the studio, Touya makes the connection that Menou is the girl he met outside the Yunagi Koukaidou on the night of the Christmas Eve concert.
Menou seems to care less about her actual album and lets Rina handle the recording while she chats with Touya...
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Episode 7: Love Is Not Rational. The Lovers Who Said This Were Poets, Critics, and Philosophers.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-11-14
Touya returns to his hometown, only to find Menou waiting for him. She's acting like she owns the place when a staffmember from the agency comes to retrieve her.
Eiji determines that the picture of a girl he received from Itsuki is a forgery and continues his search for the real one. Eiji is having delusions about what is really in the pictures, but Yuki sets him straight.
Rina, meanwhile, has a nearly empty schedule. With Touya at her side, she undergoes a bunch of voluntary training.
And, of course, Touya and Yayoi's affair continues on...
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Episode 8: I Want to Return to the Fork in the Road. I Should Have Gone Right Instead. I've Regretted Every Second Since Then.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-11-21
A shadow looms over Touya and everyone. Rina's ex-manager, Hiraragi, is secretly filming Rina outside when Maruta calls out to him. Hiraragi was plotting his revenge against the Ogata Productions team, when Maruta thrusts himself in the mix.
Touya is tutoring Mana in her room when her mother, Itsuki, happens to catch him in there. Mana learns that Touya is working for Rina while being friends with Yuki. This enrages Mana and she runs out of the house.
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Episode 9: Worried You're Not a Good Speaker? Try Talking With Your Eyes. It'll Make You Want to Talk in No Time.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-11-28
Touya goes all the way to Haruka's mountain house, in search of Mana, after she ran away from home. There he sees Haruka, getting back on the horse and practicing tennis again. Tamaru suddenly approaches Misaki and asks her to write an article for him. In return, he will not release the secret photos he has of Touya and Yayoi. Menou offers to save the day. She aggrees to stage a scandal to take the place of Touya's...
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Episode 10: We Hope to Catch Colds in Order to Be Nursed and Fed. We Don't Even Imagine the Pain We're About to Endure.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-12-05
Yuki spends all her free time practicing for her appearance in the Venus festival. At the same time, Menou is chosen to represent M&MM. Hearing this news, Rina stops by the recording studio where Menou and Natsuko are making their album. Touya's dreams of the distant past, while in the hospital... He sees a young Yuki there. He then passes away, never waking from this dream. While Misaki helps go through his things, to display at the wake, Touya tells stories of his father. He then bursts into tears and embraces Misaki. "This is only for today."
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Episode 11: Night Does Nothing for You. The Sun Is What Makes Things Fade.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-12-12
Menou's scandal makes it into the public eye. At the same time, Eiji is accused of possessing forgeries andtax evasion. Menou stays in Touya's apartment to avoid the scandal. Touya cannot remember when or where he first met her. At the same time, Rina declares she will be taking Menou's place in the Venus festival. However, she will be singing Menou's songs and not her own. Yuki visits Eiji in his secrte hiding place and tries to console him, after losing everything. The two of them embrace. Yuki closes her eyes against his chest, and...
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Episode 12: It's Somebody Else's Fault. Not Mine. It's All Somebody's Else's Fault. And Not at All...
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-12-19
"I'll always be your goddess." Menou is revealed to be the first goddess, and it's shown that her relationship to Touya goes far further back than anyone suspected.
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Episode 13: And Thus We Sit Together Now, and All Night Long We Have Not Stirred.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-12-24
"The few months before Yuki moved were the first point of connection between us." Yuki's past, and the reason why she became an idol, are revealed.
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