ข้อมูลอนิเมะTHE IDOLM@STER

Shown from a perspective of a cameraman shooting a documentary, it films and introduces the girls of 765 Production studios and their everyday activities as an idol. Along with interviews with the staff of 765 Production, the idols themselves are also interviewed over why they became idols and their goals. By the end of the episode, President Junjirou Takagi of 765 Production reveals to the girls that the cameraman that's been filming them is in fact their new producer.

After seeing the girls current profile pictures, the Producer decides that they need new ones and orders a re-shoot so the girls can get a better impression in their auditions. While the photo shoot is currently in session, the younger idols, Iori, Yayoi, Ami and Mami want to stand out from the rest of the older idols by appearing mature-looking, which they fail to do so. However, the Producer, Miki, Azusa and Ritsuko teach the younger girls about individuality and to just be themselves. Thanks to their advice, the girls photo shoot becomes a success.

The Producer and the girls head to the town of Furusato to perform a mini concert at the town's Summer Festival, where some of the girls are disappointed to learn the festival's stage is small and they also have to help out the town's folk in preparing the festival. Unfortunately for Yukiho, she is afraid of the town's men due to her androphobia, making her lose her confidence in performing a practice song with Makoto and Haruka. On the night of the town's Summer Festival, Makoto and Haruka manage to help Yukiho overcome her fear of men and just when it looks like she can do it, Yukiho runs away upon learning that one member of the audience has a dog, another thing she is afraid of. The Producer counsels Yukiho that he will handle the dog, which she later realizes that the Producer is afraid of dogs as well but chooses to get over his fears to help her. His courage gives Yukiho confidence where she, Makoto and Haruka are able to make a great performance to the crowd. After everyone returns to 765 Production studios, the Producer finds a souvenir of Furusato's pickled plums on his desk by Yukiho as thanks for helping her.

Haruka, Chihaya, Takane and Hibiki appear on a cable TV cooking show competition hosted by a frog hand puppet. However, Chihaya reveals to the Producer she's disappointed that there will be no singing in this show, which the Producer responds to by telling her to bear with it. As Haruka and Chihaya duel against Takane and Hibiki in the show, the host makes fun of the girls' mistakes. When Chihaya has enough and calls him out on his behavior, the studio goes silent until Haruka breaks it and the shows resumes as normal. As the show takes a break, Chihaya disappears, much to the Producer's worry, until he finds her outside singing. After calming herself, the Producer apologizes to her and promises to get her jobs with singing, and Haruka, Takane and Hibiki help Chihaya's awkwardness on the show by telling her to give her heart to the audience just like how she does with her songs. Thanks to their advice, Chihaya improves and the second part of the show is a success. As the Producer takes the girls out for dinner, Chihaya decides to go home but not before the Producer gives her band-aids for the cuts she got from the show. After learning from the girls that Chihaya lives alone due to family circumstances, the Producer realizes he needs to know more about the idols if he wants to help them.

It's summer and the idols are having a miserable time as the studio's air conditioner is broken. To give time for the air conditioner to be fixed and have the girls rest, the Producer agrees to bring the girls to the beach for a vacation. As everyone enjoys their time on the beach in their own way, back at 765 Production Studios, office clerk Kotori Otonashi receives an important call from President Junjirou. By the time nightfall arrives, the Producer and the idols stay at a local inn where they enjoy a barbeque, taking an outdoor bath and play games. As everyone goes to sleep, Haruka, Chihaya, Makoto and Iori have some small talk about their vacation and where their careers be in a year. After everyone comes back to the studio with the air conditioner fixed, President Junjirou makes an announcement that he has approved Ritsuko as producer for "Project Ryuuguu Komachi".

Ritsuko's idol unit, Ryuuguu Komachi, with Azusa, Iori and Ami as its members, becomes popular after their debut and gets booked in many gigs including singing on a music television program. But the Producer, worried over the other idols popularity, decides to have the idols audition several gigs so not to lose to Ryuuguu Komachi. However, he is so worried over having the girls attend their scheduled gigs that some of the girls are forced to rest for various reasons. As well, he accidentally double-books Hibiki to a concert with Makoto when Hibiki is actually with him and Haruka at another event. Luckily, Miki is able to substitute for Hibiki at the concert. The Producer realizes his mistakes over panicking over the girls' fame and apologizes to Kotori and the girls. As everyone at 765 Studios watches Ryuuguu Komachi's performance on television, the Producer tells Ritsuko that he will do better to help the idols.

Iori humiliates herself on live television when she forces an interviewer at the Minase estate to focus on her rather than talk about her father and older brothers. While the Producer reprimands her actions, Iori ignores his advice. Yayoi invites Iori and Hibiki to her home to have dinner with her five younger siblings where Iori learns about the life of a "commoner" and gets to know Yayoi's brother and the eldest boy, Chōsuke, who wants to help his older sister. During dinner, Chōsuke hits his brother Kōji for trying to take his food, for which Yayoi tells him to apologize, but he angrily talks back to her and runs away. Worried about Chōsuke, Yayoi and Hibiki tries searching for him around town and is later joined by the Producer after Iori calls him. Iori soon figures out where Chōsuke is and finds him in the storage shed as that is where she hides when she fought with her brothers. Iori understand what it feels like to be a younger sibling and knows that Chōsuke just wanted to help his sister and gives him the advice that instead of just complaining and running away, he should be bold, confront his sister and tell the truth. Inspired by Iori's speech, Chōsuke reunites with Yayoi and apologizes. As the Producer, Hibiki and Iori go home, he thanks Iori for calling him for help. The next morning, Yayoi learns to her surprise that Chōsuke wants to become more reliable at home.

Azusa, Makoto and Miki go modeling as a Bride, Groom and Bridesmaid respectively for a wedding magazine in a chapel. While Azusa is having a chat with her friend on the phone, a runaway bride who doesn't want to be married in an arranged marriage bumps into Azusa and drops her engagement ring. Azusa picks it up and is then taken by a group of bodyguards who mistake her for the runaway bride. But Azusa's kidnapping is witnessed by Makoto, and the Producer and her chase after them, leaving Miki behind at the job. When the bodyguards realize they have the wrong person, they let Azusa go but only to later learn from the bride that the ring is with Azusa. As Azusa tries to find her way back, she helps several people along the way, including watching over a fortune teller's booth, and while doing that, directing a Middle Eastern Man to go to the harbor. After a fight between Makoto and the bodyguards in Chinatown, they soon learn where Azusa is and immediately run after her, the whole group growing to include the Producer, the bride, the shop owners whose shops were damaged in the fight and the people Azusa helped. Coincidentally, Miki and the photo crew have moved to where Azusa and everyone else is heading, and Miki convinces the photographer to take pictures of the wild chase. After the misunderstandings are cleared and the ring finally returned, the bodyguard's boss arrives who is none other than the man Azusa met earlier, who is actually an Middle Eastern Oil Tycoon. The bride, finally seeing that the groom is actually a handsome and kind man, happily agrees to marry him and hopes Azusa will find happiness as well. Thankfully for everyone at 765 Productions, Azusa's chase photos become a hit and the Oil Tycoon paid for all of the damages cause by the misunderstandings.

After finishing filming a TV mystery mini-drama, Ryuuguu Komachi and Ritsuko returns to 765 studios for a break with Mami and the Producer returning as well. Iori decides to treat everyone to some special pudding she bought and kept in the refrigerator earlier, but finds the puddings are gone. Suspecting the other idols as the culprits, Ami and Mami decide to solve the mystery by playing detectives. As the twins investigate and interrogate the others with their antics, Mami admits to the Producer she feels bored and lonely without her sister but hopes to be famous like Ami and be together again. After clearing almost everyone as suspects, the twins have everyone in the studio pull a scary stunt on Haruka, Chihaya and Miki which reveals Miki as the real culprit. With the case over, Miki explains she ate the pudding because someone ate her jelly dessert earlier that morning, which the twins inadvertently reveal they were the ones who ate it, much to the office's anger as the whole thing was their fault in the first place. Makoto also mentions noticing other things going missing from the fridge lately, which angers everyone else even further, causing the twins to be chased. In the epilogue, Miki reveals there was only one pudding in the fridge when she ate it as unknown to everyone, Azusa actually ate all of the puddings that morning despite being on a diet.