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On her sixteenth birthday, Kanna Aoyagi finally learns what her older sister Yayoi does for a living: she produces adult games. Even worse for a girl who can barely say anything remotely suggestive without turning red, Yayoi wants Kanna to provide a character's voice for her newest project.Kanna enters the recording booth reluctantly and begins learning breath control, expression, timing, and how to perform without dying of embarrassment. At the same time, she has to hide the job from her school friends and deal with increasingly awkward recording demands. The biggest challenge is not the script itself but overcoming enough of her own shyness to convincingly become someone completely unlike her.

Kyoko Mogami leaves her old life behind to follow childhood friend Sho Fuwa to Tokyo, working constantly so he can build a career as a singer. Then she overhears him admitting that he never saw her as a partner at all, only as a convenient housekeeper who handled everything while he pursued fame.Kyoko's love turns instantly into a desire for revenge, but Sho laughs and tells her she can never reach him while she remains a nobody. She decides to enter show business and surpass him, only to discover that anger alone cannot make an actress. Through auditions, training, and work, Kyoko begins finding talent and an identity she never allowed herself to develop when her entire life revolved around someone else.

Aqua Hoshino, Kana Arima, and Akane Kurokawa land major roles in a stage adaptation of the popular manga Tokyo Blade, but rehearsals quickly run into conflict between the theatrical script and original creator Abiko Samejima. Akane struggles to build a character whose role has been reduced, Kana sees another chance to prove herself onstage, and the cast must learn how different live performance is from acting for a camera.For Aqua, the play is more than an artistic opportunity. Entering the orbit of the Lala Lai theatrical company gives him a path toward director Toshirou Kindaichi—and perhaps information about the man connected to his mother Ai’s murder. While Ruby moves deeper into the world of idols, Aqua continues using the entertainment industry as a tool for revenge, even when acting forces him to touch emotions he has spent years trying to bury.

Kei Kunieda is known to viewers as a polished young newscaster whose flawless manners have earned him a princely reputation. Away from work, however, he is blunt, irritable, and far less charitable toward the people around him. Kei has managed to keep those two sides separate until stop-motion animator Ushio Tsuzuki meets him under different circumstances and fails to realize that the perfect broadcaster and the masked, sharp-tongued stranger are the same man. Forced to maintain the misunderstanding, Kei grows steadily closer to Ushio while the lie becomes harder to control. Soon the real problem is no longer simply being exposed: if Ushio falls for one version of him, can he accept the whole person hidden between both?

Zhuge Liang, better known as Kongming, dies after a lifetime of warfare and military strategy wishing he could have lived in a more peaceful age. He suddenly wakes in modern Tokyo with a young body and all his memories, briefly mistaking Shibuya's lights and music for a new kind of hell. Inside a nightclub he hears Eiko Tsukimi sing and recognizes talent far greater than the confidence she has in herself. Eiko introduces him to modern music, and Kongming decides to use the strategies that once moved armies to advance her career. From attracting crowds to outmaneuvering rivals and creating opportunities, ancient tactics become tools for building a singer's future, though every plan ultimately depends on Eiko finding the courage to let her own voice carry it.

After two weeks away on location, Ryouma Ichijou returns eager to spend a proper romantic day with Izumi Sena. Izumi shares his feelings but becomes anxious about the physical closeness Ryouma expects, so Rei and Shougo accompany them to an amusement park in the hope of preventing another misunderstanding.Their interference makes privacy nearly impossible and leaves both men more frustrated than before. Ryouma must set aside what he imagined and listen to Izumi honestly, allowing their affection to advance at a pace built on trust rather than pressure.

Takato Saijou has spent 5 years at the top of the industry's "most huggable man" ranking, until rising actor Junta Azumaya suddenly takes his place. Takato tries to hide his jealousy behind 20 years of experience and professional pride, but working beside the endlessly cheerful newcomer only makes things worse. When Junta catches him drunk and records remarks that could damage his public image, Takato expects career-minded blackmail. Instead, Junta asks for something far more personal. What begins as wounded rivalry soon turns into a relationship neither man can keep within the safe boundaries of acting and competition.

Six months after the release of "POP IN 2," B-Komachi is approaching a major breakthrough. Aqua has become a regular on the program Dig Deep and appears to be choosing a future in entertainment over the revenge that once ruled his life, yet he distances himself from Kana and leaves her feelings unresolved, while Akane continues to advance steadily in her own career.Ruby, however, has changed after discovering Gorou's corpse. Becoming an idol is no longer only a dream inherited from Ai; she intends to uncover who killed both Ai and Gorou, and she is increasingly willing to use lies and carefully constructed publicity to reach that truth. As Ruby rises faster than ever, the secrets Aqua tried to bury begin returning to the surface, making every new success another step toward the past that divided the twins.

Takato Saijou and Junta Azumaya are cast together in a two-person stage production of Blood Wedding, where their roles demand an intense flamenco performance. Takato immediately realizes that Junta has a natural advantage through his Spanish heritage, while he has never danced flamenco at all. Refusing to be outshone, Takato travels to southern Spain to learn the emotion and technique behind the dance firsthand. There he meets Ceres, an accomplished older dancer willing to guide him, but Junta soon follows with unresolved feelings of his own. Between rehearsals, family connections, and memories of a painful separation, Spain becomes more than preparation for a role. Takato and Junta must confront the parts of their relationship that competition and desire have allowed them to avoid.

Twenty-three-year-old Mafuneko joins the production department at Tokyo Hajikko Television in 2014 expecting the glamorous excitement of working behind the scenes. She quickly learns that being a new assistant director mostly means doing whatever nobody else wants to do: collecting hundreds of acorns, preparing details viewers will never notice, and fixing bizarre visual problems seconds before they matter. The hours are long, the instructions often make no sense, and her coworkers can be stranger than the programs they produce. Surrounded by mistakes, last-minute disasters, and endless errands, Mafuneko tries to learn how television is actually made while surviving long enough to become a proper producer herself.

Doctor Gorou Amemiya is a devoted fan of idol Ai Hoshino, so he is stunned when she secretly arrives at his hospital pregnant with twins and asks for help giving birth away from the public eye. Before he can see the children born, Gorou is murdered under mysterious circumstances and awakens again as Aqua, one of Ai's newborn twins.Aqua and his sister Ruby grow up behind the glittering surface of the entertainment industry, seeing how the lies that protect celebrities can also destroy them. After a tragedy permanently reshapes their childhood, the siblings take different paths toward the spotlight: Ruby chases her dream of becoming an idol, while Aqua uses acting and industry connections to pursue the person he believes is tied to the crime he cannot forget.

Ancient Chinese strategist Zhuge Liang Kongming awakens in modern Shibuya centuries after his death and discovers a world with no need for old battlefields, yet plenty of warfare inside the music industry. There he hears Eiko Tsukimi sing and decides that her talent deserves a far larger audience.Instead of soldiers and horses, Kongming applies his tactics to clubs, festivals, and social media, turning each career obstacle into a battle of timing, alliances, and carefully planned deception. As Eiko moves closer to performing on the stages she has always dreamed about, she learns that strategy can open the door, but the voice that walks through it still has to be her own.

Izumi Sena was born into a family deeply involved in entertainment, but all he wants is to become a manga artist. His only childhood appearance on camera was a commercial in which he had to dress as a girl and act alongside another child, Ryouma Ichijou.Ten years later, the original cast is asked to recreate the advertisement. Izumi reunites with Ryouma, now a famous actor who has spent years believing that the “girl” from his childhood was his first love. Discovering the truth does not make Ryouma's feelings disappear as neatly as expected. Izumi, meanwhile, finds himself pulled back into an industry he tried to avoid while dealing with someone determined to get closer to him and a career dream he refuses to surrender.

Yumiko Satou and Chika Watanabe are classmates who also work as voice actors under the stage names Yasumi Utatane and Yuuhi Yuugure. To listeners, they are presented as an adorable pair of close friends hosting a weekly radio program together. Off the air, the truth is almost the opposite: Yumiko is blunt and flashy, Chika is quiet and sharp-tongued, and the two can barely stand each other. Continuing the program forces them into constant contact, however, and the pressures of auditions, public expectations, and carefully manufactured personas begin exposing what each girl hides behind her professional image. A relationship that starts as performance slowly becomes a place where rivalry, respect, and genuine support can exist at the same time.