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 doesn't really run any deeper than that.