Details
- Episodes:12
- Format:TV
- Average Score:67
- Popularity:3164
- Status:Finished Airing
- Season:Spring 2014
- Duration:24 min. per ep. minutes
- Genre:Drama, Music
- Country:JP
On Christmas 2013, the band Wake Up, Girls plays their debut song to a small audience without much fanfare. After the concert, the group’s manager takes off with the money, leaving Green Leaves Entertainment on the verge of closure and the band without a future. Despite this tumultuous beginning, the girls get a second chance, thanks to a mysterious benefactor and a shady business proposal. From here it’s a rocky climb to the top, but it’s a climb the girls are ready to make. Wake Up, Girls! follows the internal and external struggles of being a small-time idol girl band, from finding and accepting gigs to competing in popularity against other pop bands. Through the band, the girls come to accept their pasts and become more certain about their futures. Faced with increasing stakes and popularity, each of the band’s seven members must find the strength and courage inside herself to give her all to the band.
Episodes
1. A Quiet Beginning
On Christmas 2013, the new idol group "Wake Up, Girls!" performed their debut concert on an outdoor stage in a small park in Sendai. However, their agency`s president Tange disappeared with the company`s money. The remaining manager Matsuda was at a loss, and the seven members were uncertain of their group`s future. Source: crunchyroll
2. Girls Standing Onstage
WUG resumes activity thanks to a Producer Sudo brought in by Matsuda. However, the job involved wearing risque swimsuits at a health spa. Despite their doubts about the obviously shady Sudo, the girls resolve to stand onstage, but the requirements continue to escalate. Source: crunchyroll
3. Kindest
The missing President Tange returns to Green Leaves, and WUG resumes activity in earnest. The president secures a 3 minute weather report and gourmet report mini-corner on a variety show for the girls. The members split into two groups to work on their segments, and Minami`s eating habits attract attention. Source: crunchyroll
4. Scandal
Following their TV program, WUG makes smooth progress on the road to idoldom by appearing on a radio program and beginning work on their second song. However, as word of their activity spreads, people begin sharing less than kind words about former I-1 Club member Mayu. Source: crunchyroll
5. Heaven or Hell
With their second song complete, WUG prepares for their second concert. However, WUG`s concert falls on the same day as the I-1 Club`s Sendai Theater opening concert. The town is painted in the colors of the I-1 Club and WUG is overwhelmed by the idol group`s power, but the girls put their best efforts into their lessons and advertise their own concert. Source: crunchyroll
6. Not Yet
Music Producer Hayasaka suddenly reaches out to Green Leaves. While he was one of the people responsible for raising the I-1 Club to stardom and continues working with them, he now wants to produce WUG! Source: crunchyroll
7. Wonderful Friends
Hayasaka announces his decision to remove Airi from WUG! and threatens to fire the remaining members if they do not agree. Source: crunchyroll
8. Commotion
WUG! enters the annual Idol Festival in which idol groups from across the country compete to be crowned number one. When they learn the winning team will receive a contract with a mainstream record label, the members feel motivated. Source: crunchyroll
9. Living Here
When Yoshino`s reservations towards Mayu`s resistance to talking about her past with I-1 boils over and a dark cloud hangs over the group, WUG takes a trip at Kaya`s suggestion. Source: crunchyroll
10. Gateway to Success
The Tohoku preliminaries of the Idol Festival approach. As everything from orthodox to unique idol groups enter the competition, President Tange asks the girls what it means to be WUG. Source: crunchyroll
11. Idol Rhapsody
Do to unexpected events, WUG is forced to learn a new song with no time remaining. Not only that, but the song and choreography are far more difficult than the songs they`ve done before. Source: crunchyroll
12. No Regrets in This Moment
As their performance approaches, Mayu and the others notice something is wrong with Yoshino. WUG can`t conceal their panic when a problem develops just before they go onstage. Source: crunchyroll
