CUE!

Mutsuishi Haruna has signed on to AiRBLUE, a brand-new voice actress agency with no achievements or experience. On the first day, right after introductions, the 15 voice actresses in the making already have to do a scene from Hamlet for the CEO, Otori Masaki. Starting with former child actress Miyaji Mahoro, everybody puts their own personal touch on Hamlet and Ophelia, but Haruna is too nervous to step forward...

On their first day with the agency, Haruna and the other novice voice actresses have to audition for an anime. Will they be able to pass the audition though?

The results of the Bloomball audition have been announced. As not everybody got a part, their CEO Masaki explains the voice acting world is rough: "In this world, when someone gets a part, another person gets cut." Amidst the joy and sadness, AiRBLUE gets a proposal about a crowdfunding project called "Project Vogel". Burning to get her career started, Tendo Yuuki jumps at the opportunity and volunteers for the new project, but...

In addition to Maika, Shiho, and Honoka, Haruna makes it onto the cast list for "Bloom Ball" - as the show regular for Girl A, Crowd, and other nameless characters. After hearing that she made it, she vows to do the best she can do. On the other hand, team Vogel's Yuuki, Chisa, Airi, and Yuzuha have began serious dance lessons in order to make their debut as an "idol unit from the future", but...

What once was a collection of different personalities and ways of thinking has coalesced into one cohesive Vogel group. Meanwhile Haruna and the rest of the Bloom Ball group are awaiting the first post-recording of the anime's first episode. Contrasted with Shiho and Honoka, who are fast asleep, Maika and Haruna are too nervous and worried, so they practice their joint scene instead. The day of the actual recording, Haruna and the others go into their first post-recording with some members of the agency watching over them.

Kamuro Aya, Miyaji Mahoro, Hinakura Riko, and Yomine Miharu all chase a balloon only to end up in their lesson room. Suddenly seeing the four gathered like that, CEO Masaki smiles a smile full of meaning and says that "It's all inevitable." Meanwhile, Aya is taking care of a weakened little cat. Judging from its surgery wounds, Mahoro deduces that it's not a stray cat, but a lost pet. Thus begins the search for its owner, but having grown attached to the cat, Aya can't quite put her heart into the search.