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White Album 2

White Album 2 (ホワイトアルバム2, Howaito Arubamu 2) is a trilogy of Japanese adult visual novels developed by the visual novel company Leaf for the Microsoft Windows PC, and is the sequel to Leaf's earlier visual novel, White Album. The first part of the series, named White Album 2: Introductory Chapter, was released on March 26, 2010.

The second part in the series is named White Album 2: Closing Chapter and was released on December 22, 2011. An all-ages PlayStation 3 version combining both chapters published by Aquaplus was released in 2012 and ported for PlayStation Vita in 2013.

A White Album 2 - Mini-After Story epilogue was released for Windows in 2014. White Album 2: Extended Edition, combining both chapters and the epilogue was released in 2018, also for Windows. The gameplay of White Album 2 follows a linear plotline which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction. An anime television series adaptation aired in Japan between October and December 2013.

The gameplay in White Album 2 requires minimal interaction from the player as the player spends the majority of their time on reading the text that is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Unlike other visual novels, there is only one ending in Introductory Chapter and there are no choices for the player to select.

The player's only interaction with the game during the "introductory chapter" and "mini after story" is to click a button to advance the game by rolling the next line of text onto the screen, while both "closing chapter" and "coda" requires comprehensive multiple choice questions to handle the trend of the plot development.

White Album 2 takes place in the same initial setting as its predecessor, Hōjō High School, with approximately ten years having elapsed since the events of the first White Album.

Introductory Chapter begins during the second half of October. The story follows third-year Haruki Kitahara, an amateur guitar player who becomes friends with two beautiful girls in his grade: the cheerful aspiring singer and school idol Setsuna Ogiso, and the taciturn pianist Kazusa Touma. Haruki is part of the school's band club, but he and fellow club member Takeya Iizuka become over the fact that all the band members they gathered for the school festival have left. Haruki eventually manages to recruit both girls to also join the band. The trio quickly become best friends, only for both girls to fall desperately in love with Haruki, who shares the sentiments. The band has their first and only performance at the school cultural festival, where They perform Yuki Morikawa's "White Album", Rina Ogata's "Sound of Destiny", and an original song named "Todokanai Koi". When the day draws to an end, Setsuna finds Haruki and confesses to him, and the two of them start going out together. Although Kazusa claims to be supportive of the relationship, she slowly begins to drift apart from the other two. Noticing this, Haruki acts on his feelings for Kazusa, leading to Haruki standing up Setsuna on her birthday, and later to him sleeping with Kazusa. Shortly afterwards, Kazusa moves to Europe and Haruki breaks up with Setsuna, the three going their separate ways. Introductory Chapter is linear and thus has no alternate scenarios.

Closing Chapter begins three years after the events of Introductory Chapter. Haruki, now a university student, tries to move on with his life only for Setsuna to re-emerge, and their latent feelings flare up again. Haruki has three possible love interests in addition to Setsuna: Chiaki Izumi, a student in Haruki's class; Mari Kazaoka, Haruki's boss; and Koharu Sugiura, a new third-year at Hōjō.

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