"Wake Up, Girls!" is the story of seven girls from Sendai, Miyagi, who establish the idol group "Wake Up, Girls!" (WUG) and strive together to become top idols. Operating under the banner of "Green Leaves Entertainment," a modest production business in Sendai, WUG overcame several barriers to defeat national idol group "I-1 club" at the Idol Festival and won the event. They had unexpectedly become top idols... However, with an idol recession in effect, things were not that simple. The girls' days of solid and honest idol labor resumed.