Miss Monochrome: The Animation

Miss Monochrome wakes up in a small apartment room. She's an android and an idol. Her goal is to compete against super idol KIKUKO. She decides to go on tour to gather fans, and to make an album to go on tour with.

Miss Monochrome, Maneo, and Ru-chan discuss the creation of an album and her live tour in the convenience store office. When they are boggled by how much they don't know, Super Idol Kikuko's manager, Mana-chan, appears before them. She says they are missing a promoter who will make all the arrangements for her concerts, and announces that she will take the job. Next, she claims she will need ...

Promoter Yayoi Konno tells Miss Monochrome, the active idol and a part-time convenience store worker, that it's time for them to reserve venues for her live tour and asks if she has any requests. Miss Monochrome throws out exaggerated dreams like "All the famous domes and halls in the country" and "150,000 small venues" as a joke. Incredibly, Yayoi shows how skilled she is by jumping into her...

Miss Monochrome and her coworker Akiko have a jam session behind the convenience store. Both Maneo and Yayoi are content and praise how great it sounds. When Miss Monochrome and the others return to the office, they discuss creating goods to sell at her live concerts. It's an exciting promo-items meeting where ideas like Reversi, Rubik's Cubes, glow sticks, towels, T-shirts, and come up like ...

Miss Monochrome and the others hold a concert production meeting in the conference room of Heimin Records, where Yayoi works. While Yayoi is away, Miss Monochrome wins and returns with the Woose-demy Award for Best Mannequin Act from the world of dreams and illusions, and jokingly brings up the idea of a live-concert master of ceremonies. Meanwhile, Yayoi proposes a production that puts the b...

Ru-chan is put in charge of the live-tour band and lighting, and Miss Monochrome and the others have hired dancers on their frivolous budget. Miss Monochrome goes to the TV studio for a filming job, when Producer Takashita introduces her to the idol group "Caramel" that has just debuted. Miss Monochrome and Yui, Akemi, Kana, and Atsuko from Caramel all perform a mannequin act together. When P...

Miss Monochrome and Yui, Akemi, Kana, and Atsuko of Caramel are obsessed with dance rehearsal for their first live tour. Ru-chan provides on-point leadership, and everyone gets enthusiastic about practice. Meanwhile, Promoter Yayoi brings them work. It appears they've gotten a request to appear in a certain program, but it's a project Miss Monochrome and Maneo have heard of somewhere before.

On a drizzley morning, Miss Monochrome wakes up in her four and a half tatami-mat sized apartment. When she tries to change her battery, a leak in her roof causes her battery box to explode. What should appear from the smoke of the explosion but a good-looking guy in the form of a battery! Miss Monochrome and Battery-kun are shocked by this destined encounter. Thus begins their days of friend...

Miss Monochrome holds a briefing session about the concert's stage setting in her 4.5 tatami mat-wide apartment with Ru-chan, Maneo, and Yayoi. She suggests an idea which would cost a massive amount of money, but it's very unlikely that Heimin Records could implement such a scheme.

Miss Monochrome wants to investigate the differences between her and Kikuko, the idol of nationwide fame. Miss Monochrome and Maneo turn detective and practice tailing targets and deductive reasoning on the street corner, then begin to do an undercover investigation of Kikuko's working site.

Miss Monochrome painstakingly practices for her first live tour. She demonstrates her status as an out-of-place artifact by having Ru-chan install a program within her and performing a brand-new dance perfectly her very first time. While a new program is installing, Promoter Yayoi carelessly pulls out her USB cable. Miss Monochrome freezes up, and her behavior becomes very peculiar...

Gazing at a poster of Miss Monochrome, Maneo is assailed by a wave of bittersweet emotions.

Mana-chan shows up in the nick of time, just when the record label's in danger of going bankrupt.