Soap Opera (TV Series)/List of Episodes

This is a list of episodes produced for the unlikely anime series, Soap Opera. Every episode that is 10 minutes long does not show the runtime.

"Pilot" Episode (Soup Commercial)

 * 1) "Chase The Soup" (2 min) - A boy named Takashi is guided by a breeze of noodles to a girl named Ayumi, who is happily enjoying a bowl of soup.

Soap Opera Episodes

 * 1) "Mrs. Yamazaki" - Ayumi Yamazaki tries to call her mother, who is on her way back from her job at the Soup Restaurant. No answer.
 * 2) "The News" - Ayumi's dad, Dr. James, turns on the TV. Ayumi and her siblings, Sachiko and Seiichi enter the room, to a frozen expression on their father's face.
 * 3) "Enter Takashi" - Takashi rides his bike to his best friend Ayumi's house. When he arrives, Dr. James tells him they recently had a death in the family, and Ayumi probably just wants to be alone right now. However, Ayumi lets Takashi in to talk about his similar experience.
 * 4) "Take Your Kid To Work Day" - Four years ago, a 15 year-old Takashi Miyake just lost his cousin, who he was really close to. His parents decide to take him to therapy, where he meets Ayumi for the first time.
 * 5) "The First Filler Episode" (6 min) - Bernard, a friend of Takashi and Ayumi's, starts a club at Sazae Fuguta University with help from Takashi. A week later, the 'Rewriting Anime Filler Episodes to Be Part of the Overarching Story Club' is a huge success!
 * 6) "Dr. James" - James returns to doing therapy, finding it 'therapeutic,' after having taken a big hit from the death of his wife. He promises himself that he will never remarry.
 * 7) "A School Day" (22 min) - In this episode, we see Takashi go through a normal day at college; Bernard falls in love with a girl named Mana, who is a big fan of talk shows and wishes to be on one herself someday.
 * 8) "I Wanna Put You Into The Spotlight" - Bernard now has one goal, and one goal only: somehow make Mana famous within a short amount of time, so much so that it warrants a talk show episode featuring her as the guest. Meanwhile, Ayumi's game design class at high school, which she previously hated, enters a unit all about character design and her eyes lit up the very second she heard this.
 * 9) "And So The Filler Becomes The Arc" - Bernard tries to make a film featuring Mana and Takashi for his course on TV production. Mana and Takashi are supposed to be a couple in the movie, and we see them slowly fall for each other in real life. Struggling to write a full and proper story, Bernard cancels the film in favor of an amateur talk show.
 * 10) "She Tells Him" - Mana tells Bernard that she likes Takashi and doesn't want to be on his talk show. Bernard handles this surprisingly well, but also cancels his talk show, losing interest.
 * 11) "A Clip Show? Already?" - Takashi, Ayumi, and Bernard all get together and hang out at his apartment, reflecting on past events from previous episodes. It really doesn't run any deeper than that.
 * 12) "Deeper Than That" - Takashi takes Mana out on a date; Bernard goes to a community pool, where he unexpectedly becomes a lifeguard.
 * 13) "The Yamazakis" - Ayumi finally gets to design a character in her game design class; Sachiko and Seiichi watch TV while their father James prepares dinner. He just so happens to be cooking something his wife taught him how to, and he cries after having flashbacks to that day in the kitchen.
 * 14) "Guard Them With Your Life" - In this pure-Bernard episode, Bernard ends up having to save someone at the community pool. Then, the parents of that person begin to think that he's not an actual lifeguard.
 * 15) "Second Date" - Takashi goes out with Mana again. At the end of the date, he takes her behind the set of a talk show, and she is staying with him for sure; Ayumi's character design project gets a new due date, giving her more time to refine her concepts.
 * 16) "The Rewriting Anime Filler Episodes to Be Part of the Overarching Story Club" - Bernard quits his job as a lifeguard to revisit his club... and shut it down.
 * 17) "Sazae Fuguta University: Bernard" (6 min) - The first installment to an anthology series, featuring 3 six-minute stories about what Bernard, Takashi, and Mana do when they're not hanging out. This one focuses on Bernard, as all his club members are petitioning to bring his club back. Eventually, he has to by popular demand, but with a new leader...
 * 18) "Sazae Fuguta University: Takashi" (6 min) - Takashi is offered to be the new leader of the 'Rewriting Anime Filler Episodes to Be Part of the Overarching Story Club,' but turns it down. In his course on TV production, he has to make a film, so he asks Mana if she wants to be a part of the cast.
 * 19) "Sazae Fuguta University: Mana" (6 min) - Mana joins the cast of Takashi's short film for TV production titled, 'Wind Calling.' In the end, she accepts an offer to be the new leader of Bernard's club.
 * 20) "The Presentation" (20 min) - In this double-length special, Ayumi presents her concept art presentation to her game design class.
 * 21) "New Leader" - Mana's 'Rewriting Anime Filler Club' is still going strong. She decides to add a high school branch, which Ayumi later signs up for.
 * 22) "Bernard's House" - In this bottle episode, Takashi and Bernard hang out, and we get to have a special look at a day in the life of Bernard.
 * 23) "The Short Film Festival" - Takashi's professor in TV Production decides to have his film screened at a Short Film Festival; Takashi, Bernard, and Mana attend the screening.
 * 24) "The High School Branch" - Ayumi is offered to become the leader of the high school branch of Mana's club. She declines, and this role is given to someone else instead... We'll get back to that.
 * 25) "2" - The TV Production professor begs for Takashi to make a sequel to his groundbreaking short film, 'Wind Calling.' So, he finds a cast: Mana, Bernard, and Ayumi. The film will be much more large scale and have an even bigger budget.
 * 26) "Wind Calling: Till We Meet Again" - Takashi, Mana, Bernard, and Ayumi start filming 'Till We Meet Again: A Sequel To Wind Calling.' They show it to the professor, who is quick to offer a third, fourth, and fifth installment. As big as this offer was, they all declined.
 * 27) "Big Bless" - Daisuke, who goes by the nickname 'Big Bless,' becomes the club leader of the high school branch of Mana's Rewriting Anime Filler Club. You'd think this wouldn't bother Ayumi, but she was properly pissed off at the idea of her enemy being the new club leader. Daisuke has never met nor wronged her in the past, she just really hates him.
 * 28) "The Wind Calling Series" (13 min) - The finished product of Takashi's two 6-minute short films. In the final minute, we cut to Takashi, relieved that he can finally move on to pursue bigger projects.
 * 29) "Talk Show" - Takashi, Mana, and Bernard all get to be on an actual talk show for their short films. Mana is excited to finally be living her dream, Takashi hates that he's done with 'Wind Calling,' but the world isn't, and Bernard is there.
 * 30) "Break" - On her day off, Ayumi makes some digital portraits; Her father, Dr. James, gives therapy to someone whose wife died, something James is still recovering from.
 * 31) "The Soup Shop" - James takes Seiichi, Sachiko, and Ayumi to the mall, where he keeps getting haunting reminders of his deceased wife. When they get home, he tells his kids that they're moving away.
 * 32) "Takashi And Ayumi" - Takashi hangs out with Ayumi, before she and her family start fresh in a new country. Upon hearing this news, Takashi offers her to live with him in his apartment...
 * 33) "Animes To Binge Over The Summer" - Ayumi announces to her family that she's going to live with Takashi; Bernard gets all the rights to Takashi's short films, and produces 'Wind Calling' 3, 4, and 5 with Mana.
 * 34) "Epilogue: Post-Series" - A decade later, Bernard and Mana have become successful filmmakers and creative partners; Takashi and Ayumi go to visit her family, to announce they're having a kid.