White Album

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. ...

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 Echo...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

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 Mis...

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 su...

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...

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 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, b...

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 en...

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 addresse...

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 sto...