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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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Context VisualNovel / WhiteAlbum