Aoi, an assistant producer, faces the struggles of working within the anime industry.

Segawa-san falls ill and the pressure to complete episode four increases for Aoi -- and the director has decided to completely redo a scene!

Aoi and the team scramble to make their deadline after a server goes down and they can't access the necessary files.

Shizuka auditions for a role with Prussia Studio and learns that a popular voice actress is auditioning as well.

Endou-san drops out as animation supervisor for the eighth episode and the storyboards for the final episode are nowhere near finished.

Endo-san refuses to return to work and is offered a position at Studio Canaan and Aoi is forced to tell Honda about everything.