Love Live! Superstar!!

Everyone has a dream they strive to achieve, and so does the musically talented Kanon Shibuya. However, due to her stage fright, Kanon fails to make it into Yuigaoka Girls' High School's music program and instead ends up in the general curriculum. Even though Kanon makes the conscious decision to quit music altogether, her classmate Tang Keke rekindles Kanon's passion for music with her own: a passion for school idols.

Although Keke and Kanon try to form a school idol group, their effort meets strong objections from Ren Hazuki, the daughter of the school's director. Even so, the girls soon visit the director, who allows them to set up their school idol club under one condition—they must win first place at the Yoyogi School Idol Festival.

The resilience of these aspiring idols is put to the test as they face the challenges that come their way. Throughout their journey, the girls make new friends and meet new members that join them to become the dazzling idols others can only imagine.

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Adaptation:	Love Live! Superstar!! Futari no jikan! ~Special times~ Kanon & koi hen
Alternative setting:	Love Live! School Idol Project, Love Live! Sunshine!!, Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai
Other:	Liella no Uta, Hajimari wa Kimi no Sora
Sequel:	Love Live! Superstar!! 2nd Season
Summary:	30-pun de Wakaru! Love Live! Superstar!!

Yoshitake, Chihaya
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Ootsuka, Hiroshi

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Herek, Samantha

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Kyougoku, Takahiko

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"START!! True dreams" by Liella! [Kanon Shibuya (CV: Sayuri Date), Keke Tang (CV: Liyuu), Chisato Arashi (CV: Nako Misaki), Sumire Heanna (CV: Naomi Payton), Ren Hazuki (CV: Nagisa Aoyama)] (eps 2-??)

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	4: "Mirai wa Kaze no You ni (未来は風のように)" by Sumire Heanna (CV: Naomi Payton) (eps 4)
	5: "Mirai wa Kaze no You ni (未来は風のように)" by Chisato Arashi (CV: Nako Misaki) (eps 5)
	6: Mirai wa Kaze no You ni (未来は風のように)" by Kanon Shibuya (CV: Sayuri Date), Keke Tang (CV: Liyuu), Chisato Arashi (CV: Nako Misaki), Sumire Heanna (CV: Naomi Payton) (ep 6)
	7: Mirai wa Kaze no You ni (未来は風のように)" by Ren Hazuki (CV: Nagisa Aoyama) (ep 7)
	1: "Mirai Yohou Hallelujah! (未来予報ハレルヤ！)" by Liella! [Kanon Shibuya (CV: Sayuri Date), Keke Tang (CV: Liyuu), Chisato Arashi (CV: Nako Misaki), Sumire Heanna (CV: Naomi Payton), Ren Hazuki (CV: Nagisa Aoyama)] (eps 1)
	2: "Mirai wa Kaze no You ni (未来は風のように)" by Kanon Shibuya (CV: Sayuri Date) (eps 2)
	3: "Mirai wa Kaze no You ni (未来は風のように)" by Kanon Shibuya (CV: Sayuri Date), Keke Tang (CV: Liyuu) (eps 3)

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Dec 8, 2021

Veronin

Recommended

With Superstar being the franchise's fourth and latest adventure, it's understandable that some may be reluctant to watch once more a series seemingly treading familiar roads. Coming less than a year after the third Love Live series, Nijigasaki, I was worried of the fatigue that may come from yet another shuffling of the cast.

Those fears, however, were misguided.

Superstar revealed itself not just as an excellent anime in its own right, but also the most fresh the franchise has been in nearly a decade. Contrary to expectations, Superstar is actually a slice-of-life anime first, and an idol anime second. Where the previous series opted for ...

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Oct 17, 2021

SingleH

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I see a lot of people being nice to this show, and while I kinda see why, I also really don’t. In Japan, Love Live is an insatiable money-making behemoth whose appetite only grows with the eating, but here in the West, it’s largely mocked by the mainstream. But apparently not Superstar. What other people are getting out of this show is something I can’t get out of it, and it might just be because I’ve seen too much. It might just be because I’ve become numb, and maybe if this was the first time I’d ever seen an idol show like this, there’d be ... stuff I could pick up on which didn’t seem like tired, insipid, clickbait garbage, but I’m too old and storied for that shit. I’m fine with media selling itself, I’m not a child, but when it comes to idols, the girls themselves are the products, and while an anime’s storyline can help dilute this reality, I can’t not see it, so everything just feels fake. Despite being well-directed, the concerts are totally non-diegetic, because they’re being shot from angles no in-universe camera could ever capture. One of the girls is an antagonist to a point, where upon the cast spends two episodes confronting her corny, melodramatic backstory, after which she immediately becomes part of the team even though she’s an outsider who everyone hated five seconds ago. A character travels from a competition in Tokyo to the Southern Islands before the sun can finish setting, waiting for her there is a costume which she never planned to have made, in which she performs flawlessly alongside the others despite not having practiced the set. The show is comprised of contrivance after contrivance after contrivance, thoughtlessly and lifelessly checking off boxes on a bulleted list of Love Live tropes required by the producers. Not every relationship feels this soulless, and not every action feels this manufactured, but to those pretending like this series is significantly more genuine than any other installment of Love Live, I’m afraid I must disagree.

After all these years of having watched thousands and thousands of anime, I’ve deduced by far the easiest way to dismiss a series is to scrutinize its production, because most anime look like shit and cut so many corners they become entirely different shapes. Indeed, most generic trash actually LOOKS like generic trash, but this doesn’t. This looks legitimately impressive, and since I couldn’t write it off, I had to endure it, and the technicality behind the concerts was so jaw-dropping, I cannot pretend I didn’t have fun here. The girls have their gimmicks, but their character designs are so much more individualized than previous installments of Love Live, it’s commendable. Love Live girls have always had copy/pasted faces, bodies, hairstyles, and personalities, only adding enough of a difference between them to be legally distinct, but this show breaks the mold in that respect completely. Each girl looks and acts like a separate human being, not like a slight variation of a figurine, body pillow, or cardboard cutout which you already own. They aren’t deep, and some of the forced backstories I mentioned earlier certainly bogged down the script, but the girls are still pleasant and cute. It feels like everyone creatively involved in this project has improved measurably. We all know Yoshiaki Fujisawa is a genius, and while Jukki Hanada still can’t write convincing drama, he still can write funny dialogue and natural chemistry between characters. Love Live has singlehandedly revolutionized the landscape of CG, and Director Kyougoku has absolutely mastered the art of transitioning between the mediums of 2D and 3D. The CG integration is better than some Production IG shows, and the CG itself outclasses Studio Orange. This show is no visual masterpiece, and episodes seven and eight saw heavy inconsistency, but the animators absolutely pampered these girls as much as they possibly could, even if they only exist to fuel Bandai’s merchandising.

Thank you for reading.

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Dec 3, 2021

Lilfukoling

Not Recommended

As a fan of love live, this was probably the most boring love live I've seen. The story was okay but kind boring. Average at best. The art is your every day love live art style, taking after the original and sunshine. The character designs aren't great, this was probably the poorest designs I've seen so far from the love live series, the worse looks being sunny pas and rens design overall, the only thing that makes it work while is the personalities for 4 outta the 5 main group, ten being the most poorest of personalities. The outfits aren't amazing there very poorly designed ...

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