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5 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_whitealbum_leaf.png]] |
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7 | ''White Album'' is a 1998 adult visual novel by [[Creator/{{Aquaplus}} Leaf]] adapted into an anime in 2008. A second season was released in 2009. |
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9 | Nothing to do with ''that'' [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum White Album]], by the way. |
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11 | The story deals with college student Touya Fujii and his girlfriend, the rising IdolSinger Yuki Morikawa, and the accompanying stress -- along with the rest of Touya's semi-wanted harem -- that is their relationship. The series is actually set in UsefulNotes/The80s, and the lack of cellphones is important to the plot. Seriously, this story wouldn't work set in the present. |
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13 | There's also a SpinOff, ''VisualNovel/WhiteAlbum2'', with different characters and story but set in the same universe. |
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15 | Yuki and fellow idol singer Rina Ogata appear as playable characters in ''VideoGame/TheQueenOfHeart'', a series of doujin {{Fighting Game}}s by Watanabe Seisakujo (Now French Bread), with Yuki debuting in [=QoH=] '98, and Rina debuting in [=QoH=] '99. |
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17 | Much later, both girls would also be featured as [[AssistCharacter support characters]] in ''VideoGame/{{Aquapazza}}'', a FightingGame made jointly by Creator/{{Aquaplus}} and Examu. |
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19 | !!This work provides examples of the following tropes: |
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21 | %%* ArcWords "Goddess of the Day" |
22 | * ArtShift: The art occasionally shifts into a kind of soft, pastel-ish style that is very, very pretty. |
23 | %%* CatchPhrase: Haruka has "Stingy". |
24 | %%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Hopefully there won't be any "[[VisualNovel/SchoolDays Nice Boat]]" in this anime. |
25 | %%* DysfunctionJunction: Pretty much everyone has some kind of problem. |
26 | * The80s: The series is set in that decade, it seems specifically so that Yuki and Touya can conveniently miss each other's calls. |
27 | ** In Yayoi's sedan (in LHD), you can even see a built-in phone handset in the middle between the driver and front passenger seats. Modern sedans made in the 2000s and beyond don't have that feature anymore. |
28 | %%* ForgottenChildhoodFriend [[spoiler: Mendou, sort of. Apparently she's "goddess #1".]] |
29 | * FreakOut: Rina's brother has a massive hallucinatory one in one episode of season 2. Yuki at one point freaks out and starts biting her own wrist. |
30 | * HaremGenre: Deconstructed. Touya begins the series with a well-established girlfriend, who progressively becomes less well-established as her busy career creates distance between them and Touya's eye begins to wander as other options present themselves. |
31 | %%* IdolSinger: Yuki, Rina, Mendou |
32 | * LonelyAtTheTop: Rina is the most successful of the artists, at the top of her game. And incredibly lonely. Of course, in this series, everyone is. |
33 | %%* LonelyTogether |
34 | * LoveDodecahedron: About half a dozen girls like Touya; two of them have stalkers of their own. One acquires a boyfriend in addition to her stalker. |
35 | * PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Touya to Haruka. [[spoiler: She does. Then he kisses her and they end up having sex anyway...]] |
36 | %%* RunningGag: Mana mistaking other women for Yuki. |
37 | %%* {{Tsundere}}: Mana |
38 | %%* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Haruka especially seems to fit this niche. |
39 | * UpdatedRerelease: The original game received an all-ages port to the [=PS3=], subtitled ''Tsuzurareru Fuyu no Omoide'' ("Memories Like Falling Snow") in 2010 with updated artwork. Later, this version of the game was also released for the PC. |
40 | * TheVoiceless: Franky, the Master of the bar, [[spoiler:until episode 24.]] |
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