Quartet Game Synopsis:
[Copyright 1999 - Nissy (translation by Zahara Medina (zahara@washuu.swb.de)]

The action starts at Rakuyou, a famous music school. It's lunch time and
four alumns are called to the principal's room:
Emi Tomonari (3rd grade, class A)
Takasumi Kashimoto (3rd grade, class B)
Taeko Andou (3rd grade, class E)
Rui Matoba (3rd grade, class F)

The four students--who know nothing of each other--go the the principal's room.
There they're informed that they've been called to form a quartet, which will
be in homage to Eiji Ijuin, a famous Japanese pianist who is returning to
Japan after a long time and is going to visit their school.
The teacher who is going to guide and prepare them is professor Kanda. At
the start, they don't get along very well, and start off pretty badly. When
Kanda gives them the partitures, they realize they've never seen nor heard
that music before, and they have no idea where it comes from even though
the teacher is not too explicit about it. When they try playing it for the
first time, they all are very impressed by the wonderful and majestic way
Emi plays violin.
In one of the first training days, they start to fight with each other and
then a motorist appears and calls Taeko, who jumps through the window and
goes off with him. Takasumi gets annoyed because of this and decides to
go away too. So, since only two can't play the quartet, Emi and Rui also
go home. The next day, even though it's not practice day, Rui goes to look
for them all so they can play. However, once in the room they start to
fight--seriously this time--and start using the bars (from the instruments)
and fight between each other with them like in a swordfight. Emi gets very
nervous and jumps onto Rui shouting that bars are not to play with and
pushing him against a closet, making a statue over it fall over him.
The statue breaks in the fall and in its interior they discover a handwritten
partiture. When Emi picks it up, she realizes it's the original partiture of
the one Kanda gave them. In the back it's written "Stella," and they wonder
where did it come from. But they all agree in that it's the real partiture
of the song. Rui says that the room where they're practicing it's professor
Koike's and that, probably, it has some connection with Koike's runaway, so
they decide to investigate.
They go eat at a restaurant and meanwhile, in the TV, they show an interview
with Eiji Ijuin, in which he calls his violin "Stella," at which the four 
get pretty surprised.
On the next day they are in the practice room, but playing cards and talking
about what happened, though they don't have too clear the relationship
between Eiji Ijuin and Koike's partiture. While they are talking about this,
professor Kanda enters and surprises them playing. Then they start to play
and Kanda realizes they've become much better since they started.
Later on, after the end of the practices, Emi is talking with Kanda, and
when she finishes and walks through the corridor, she hears somebody playing
the piano. She takes a peek and it's Rui playing. He tells her that piano is
his second instrument and that the song he was playing had been composed
by himself. Emi decides to play that song, first them both and then the
whole quartet. When they finish playing, they say that a girl saw professor
Koike for the last time on the Febrary 2nd and that the same professor 
participated in the Music Museum collection, so they decide to go there.
The woman in charge lends them a note pad from professor Koike in which he
wrote what he had prepared for the museum. Between the things listed, there
is an "old partitures." While they are walking around the museum somebody
asks the woman in charge what the kids wanted.
While they walk, Rui stops and tells them that maybe Koike was murdered--at
which all get scared and wonder if it's true--but behind them there is a
shadow listening to their conversation. The next they they find that somebody
has destroyed their boxes and in the practice room, the cords of the instruments,
on the blackboard somebody advised them to stop investigating. Emi says that
the fact that they played that piece it's related to some secret they will
probably discover the day of the homage.
Meanwhile, Eiji Ijuin reads the recital program in his honor and when he
arrives at the name of the partiture the quartet will play, he is very
surprised.
Finally, the recital day is there and all alumns are very eager to see Eiji
Ijuin, but they see that there are lots of elegant people coming to the
recital, something that surprises them. When Takasumi arrives at the
building, he sees some girls sitting at the entrance with the recital
programs and some kind of question sheets. Takasumi doesn't know what
they are for, but he picks one up.
Once they are all ready, they find Kanda talking with a girl in German. He
presents her to them, she's Eiji Ijuin's manager. Emi seems to remember
hearing that name before, but can't remember well. In that moment Eiji
Ijuin arrives and professor Kanda presents all the musicians to him. When
it's Emi's turn, she has a melancolic look on her eyes and Rui realizes there
is something going on. Behind the stage, all ready, they are all very nervous
and talk about all the people that is present. Takasumi says that he doesn't
know why the question sheets, to which Emi suddendly reacts and understands
everything. She tells the others that none of the people in the auditorium
have any relationship with Eiji Ijuin, they're all partirure buyers and
they are using them to present the musical piece. When hearing this, they
agree to destroy the plan and, instead of playing professor Kanda's piece,
they play Rui's song, titled, "Quartet Game." As they play, everybody is
surprised, Kanda, Eiji and, of course, all the would-be buyers who go out
very angryly. When they finish and talk about what they did, they find
Emi is no longer with them.
Emi is talking with somebody. She tells him that he has used the homage to
Eiji Ijuin to sell the partiture, but the partiture has value because it's
signed. And the persons she's talking with is... professor Kanda. Finally
he tells her that they had got the partiture for him and Koike, and that they 
were in it together; but at the end, Koike didn't want to share, so he
killed him and kept the partiture. He also tells them the relationship
between the partiture and Eiji Ijuin and Stella. But now she knows all the
truth... so she can't tell it--and thus cannot stay alive even though they
had always got along pretty well and they had great friendship love for each other.
All the while the others can't find Emi, so they go talk with Eiji Ijuin. He 
gives them an overview of the story about the buyers and other things and then
they realize that Kanda planned it all and that Emi is in serious danger. As
they search for her, they find a receipt of a plane ticket for Kanda. They
all agree in that he may try to kill Emi and Eiji can't stop repeating "Emi...
Emi...." Eiji takes the car and goes to the airport with Rui. In the car
Rui asks what he has to do with Emi and Eijin replies that she's his daughter.
Takasumi and Taeko go to the airport in motocycle. When they arrive they see
Kanda's car where they find Emi alive, who runs into her father's arms the
moment she sees him. 
Kanda, meanwhile, thinks it would have been impossible for him to kill her
and bids her farewell mentally.
After all has ended, Emi tells Rui why she's separated from her father and
that after so many years without seeing him, she's now totally happy and
she now has also a group of friends to go everywhere with, like, for example,
a concert of her fahter, Eiji Ijuin.

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