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Plot Summary:

Mink puts its premise right on the front page: “ Have you ever thought of turning into the person you were meant to be? Someone cuter and cooler than the person you are right now?” Mink has a crush on a rock star named Illiya and wants to be as cute as TV star Azumi Mizuhara. During a freak accident in a record store, she accidentally picks up a CD that transforms her, for three hours at a time, into Cyber Idol Mink. Of course, there must be complications. The CD is from the future, and thus Mink is breaking the laws of space and time; if she’s caught, she will be deleted. Mink materializes in the location where Azumi is doing a shoot and steals the show, then disappears. A major company starts looking for her to be the spokesperson for their new blueberry tea. A teenager named Motoharu, who runs a struggling talent agency, announces that Mink is his client, then goes out to find her. By happy coincidence, Motoharu’s sister is a friend of Mink’s, so she finds this out and shows up on cue. Mink is an instant success.

Mink appears on Azumi’s TV show. On the way in, she passes Illiya, who is throwing away a piece of sheet music. She keeps it. On the show, Azumi tries to humiliate Mink, but Mink turns it around with wit. Then Azumi asks Mink to sing a song. Mink produces Illiya’s song, “Millions of Moons,” and creates another sensation. Motoharu arranges for Illiya to produce the record of the song. Later, Mink learns that another record company had offered Motoharu more money to let them produce the record—and threatened to close down his agency if he refused—but Motoharu signed with another company because he knew Mink wanted to work with Illiya.

Mink realizes she has a crush on Motoharu, but she can’t tell him the truth about her transformations because she is using forbidden software. Meanwhile, a friend programs in more functions, allowing Mink to create a double to take her place in school when she is supposed to be performing.