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Five members of the school culture club—Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki—encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch personalities without warning. The same begins to happen to the other club members, throwing their daily lives into chaos. At first the five students find some amusement among the confusion, but this connection also exposes the painful scars hidden within their hearts... When their calm lives are shattered, the relationships between the five students also begin to change!
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Episode 1 - A Story That Had Already Begun Before Anyone Realized It
Release Date: 2012-07-08Being required by their school to be in a club, Yui, Iori, Himeko, Taichi, and Aoki are members of Student Cultural Society. One day, Yui and Aoki come in with a problem... they claim to have swapped bodies last night.
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Episode 2 - Some Fascinating Humans
Release Date: 2012-07-15The Student Cultural Society members have a problem and it seems to be escalating. The group doesn’t know what to do until a mysterious figure explains almost everything.
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Episode 3 - Jobber and Low Blow
Release Date: 2012-07-22As the body switching becomes more common place, the Student Cultural Society members become more adventurous with each other’s body.
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Episode 4 - Twin Feelings
Release Date: 2012-07-29Inaban is not well and she has been hiding it from the group. Taichi, after switching with her, has felt her physical pain and is determined to help her.
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Episode 5 - A Confession and Death...
Release Date: 2012-08-05Heartseed has grown bored with the group. So spice things up he takes over Iori body and jumps from a bridge. He offers the group the ability to switch bodies at will, if one cares to take Iori’s place in death.
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Episode 6 - A Story That Continued Before Anyone Realized It
Release Date: 2012-08-12After weeks of peace, the members of the group have started hearing voice and once again their lives have been turned upside down.
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Episode 7 - Falling Apart
Release Date: 2012-08-19Acting out on their desires is causing members of the StuCS to lose friends and even turn against each other.
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Episode 8 - And Then There Were None
Release Date: 2012-08-26All the infighting between the club members is beginning the boil over. Good advice comes their way from an unlikely source.
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Episode 9 - Can't Stop, Can't Stop, Can't Stop
Release Date: 2012-09-02The group is learning to be more honest with their desires, except for Inaba. Heartseed decides to pay her a special visit at home.
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Episode 10 - Putting into Words
Release Date: 2012-09-09Heartseed warned Inaba that he would make things interesting. Inaba, Iori, with knives and unleashed desires will leave someone crying.
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Episode 11 - A Story That Began as We Realized It
Release Date: 2012-09-16With Heartseed gone the group enjoyed some time off, but a visitor to Taichi is set to stir up new troubles.
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Episode 12 - Into a Snow City
Release Date: 2012-09-23While Kiriyama deals with a friend from the past and the promise she can’t remember. Aoki must decide who he really loves.
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Episode 13 - As Long as the Five of Us Are Together
Release Date: 2012-09-30Taichi screws up and everyone pays the price. While dealing with the situation, Iori gets a call from her mother and the team sets out to help.
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Episode 14 - The Days Fall Apart
Release Date: 2012-10-07As Heartseed puts the gang through another phenomenom, in which their true emotions will be randomly transmitted to each other, Iori turns Taichi down when he asks to start dating her. As Valentine's Day comes and Maiko suggests Taichi turn his attention towards Himeko, the gang grow concerned when they learn Goto will only be able to be an advisor for one club, meaning they will have to outdo the Jazz Club in a presentation in order to keep him. As the discussion turns to Valentine's Day, both Himeko's feelings for Taichi and Taichi's rejection by Iori gets transmitted to the others. As Himeko tries to get Iori to speak her reasons, Iori's selfish thoughts end up getting transmitted to everyone, which in turn leads Iori to hear everyone's concerned thoughts about her, including a harsh one from Himeko.
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Episode 15 - See Nothing, Understand Nothing
Release Date: 2012-10-14As Iori struggles with her identity, she ends up being cold and distancing herself from everyone around her. When Taichi hears Himeko thinking about disbanding the Cultural Research Club, she explains it as a possible method to stop Heartseed from interfering with them, though Taichi easily tells she doesn't want it to come to that. Concerned about Iori, Yui tries to reason with her, but she just responds that her changing personality means she can no longer be friends with her. As Yui is approached by Heartseed that evening, she resolves to stop relying on others so much, later giving Taichi some encouragement to help save Iori. The next day, as Himeko tries to get Iori to say what she truly feels, she responds by saying it is Himeko's selfishness concerning Taichi that is to blame.
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Episode 16 - Resolve and Meltdown
Release Date: 2012-10-21As the gang continue on their presentation without Iori, Taichi makes a bold statement in class in order to quell the rumours surrounding Iori. However, Kaoru Setouchi, a girl who Iori infuriated the other day, is not fooled by this and plots to scheme something as payback. Later, the gang return to the clubroom to find their presentation has been torn to shreds. Despite the others putting it aside and deciding to remake the project from scratch, Iori, believing Kaoru to be responsible, becomes infuriated at her for getting others involved, forcing Taichi and Himeko to stop her in her tracks. After calming her down, Himeko tries to talk to Iori again by sharing some of her embarrassing secrets. Iori eventually breaks down, revealing how, due to all the stress and suffering the Heartseed incidents have caused her, she can't stand to keep up her fake, cheery personality anymore.
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Episode 17 - Connected Hearts
Release Date: 2012-10-28As Taichi, Yui and Yoshifumi learn of Himeko's kidnapping via the emotion transfer and rush to save her, Iori remains conflicted over what she should do, but inevitably decides to follow Taichi and Himeko's advice and live for herself. As the others start fighting against the men who kidnapped Himeko, one of them puts a knife towards her. Just then, Iori arrives and manages to use the emotion transfer to get Himeko to safety. Afterwards, Kaoru explains how she was resentful towards Iori for turning down a boy from the Jazz Club that she liked, but never wanted it to go so far and apologises for her actions. Noticing that they have something in common, Iori gives Kaoru the same advice the others gave her and asks her to be friends with her. As the gang make their way home, one of the kidnappers comes at them with a metal pipe, hitting Taichi as he protects Himeko.