A Strange Saturday Afternoon

REIGNITION

Miss Monochrome decides to create an album and go on tour to get herself as popular as super idol Kikuko, but her manager got the wrong meaning of both.

PROMOTER

Miss Monochrome's former promoter, Mana, is back to ask for money to promote her. Convinced, she asked her manager if he could lease the shop. However, since Miss Monochrome doesn't have money, Mana left her and went to her rival instead. Depressed, Miss Monochrome finds the perfect promoter for her, a skillful racer named Yayoi.

GUITARIST

Miss Monochrome was entertaining her older audience and continues to work at the convenience store as her part-time job. While Yayoi, her new promoter, visits her in her race car. She asked her where would she like her concerts to be venued and Miss Monochrome jokingly replied all of the domes in Japan. Yayoi, in a hurry, seriously reserved them. But when Miss Monochrome said that it was a joke and she wanted 150,000 locations instead, Yayoi reserved what she wanted, but it is also a joke. In the end, she reserved five small venues and talked about the songs she'll sing in those events. Her promoter suggested to have a band member and Miss Monochrome's co-worker was pinpointed to be the guitarist.

GOODS

Promoter Yayoi suggests to have some goods available for their first live event. From towels, T-shirts, black-and-white glow sticks to even batteries! In the end, only a selected few were accepted and Yayoi races sharply for her to implement these ideas so that she won't get downsized.

SCOUT

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 band members in the spotlight. The coworker Akiko is eager to do a guitar solo and starts to show off her incredible guitar technique, but this leaves Miss Monochrome with a dubious look on her face.

SHOWDOWN

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 Producer Takishita commends her for looking out for her juniors, Miss Monochrome gets smug and starts acting patronizing to them.

AGAIN

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.

REQUIEM

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 friendship.

PUBLICITY

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.

SEVENTEEN

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.

INNERSPACE

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...

CRISIS4696

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

MONOCHROME²

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