Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai 2nd Season

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Synonyms: Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club 2nd Season

Japanese: ラブライブ! 虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 2, 2022 to Jun 25, 2022

Premiered: Spring 2022

Broadcast: Saturdays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: Lantis, Bushiroad, Sunrise Music, Kadokawa, Bandai Namco Filmworks, Bandai Namco Music Live

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Studios: Sunrise

Source: Other

Genre: Slice of Life

Themes: Idols (Female), Music, School

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.68¹ (scored by 15,022 users)

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Ranked: #1286²

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Popularity: #3608

Members: 38,473

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Ranked #1286Popularity #3608Members 38,473

Episodes: /13

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The Nijigasaki High School Idol Club continues to gain popularity as its reputation grows, even catching the attention of aspiring school idol Zhong Lanzhu. However, when Lanzhu visits the club and interacts with its members, she realizes that their ideals differ from her own. This sparks the beginning of a rivalry between Lanzhu and the club members, as she challenges them to see who can captivate a larger audience at the upcoming School Idol Festival.

Thus, the school idol club starts a new chapter in its quest to achieve idol stardom. Being more united than ever before, the girls continue to practice for the festival—wanting to show Lanzhu what it truly means to be a school idol.

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Prequel:	Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai
Sequel:	Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai: Next Sky

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yuuki, Setsuna

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Kusunoki, Tomori
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Tennouji, Rina

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Tanaka, Chiemi
Japanese

Konoe, Kanata

Main

Kitou, Akari
Japanese

Nakasu, Kasumi

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Sagara, Mayu
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Uehara, Ayumu

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Onishi, Aguri
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Ousaka, Shizuku

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Maeda, Kaori
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Miyashita, Ai

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Murakami, Natsumi
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Takasaki, Yuu

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Yano, Hinaki
Japanese

Asaka, Karin

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Kubota, Miyu
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Mifune, Shioriko

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Koizumi, Moeka
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Ootsuka, Hiroshi

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Kawamura, Tomoyuki

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Nagasaki, Yukio

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Egami, Kiyoshi

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Opening Theme

"Colorful Dreams! Colorful Smiles!" by Nijigasaki School Idol Club (虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会)

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Ending Theme

"Yume ga Bokura no Taiyou sa (夢が僕らの太陽さ)" by Nijigasaki School Idol Club (虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会)

Reviews

Mar 27, 2023

Cozye

Recommended

In a display of happiness and enthusiasm, the second season of Love Live Nijigasaki is a welcome return for the series. It not only manages to capture everything that made its first season shine but also expands on its many themes and ideas all while continuing to set itself apart from the other entries of this franchise.

There are oftentimes certain expectations when it comes to each iteration of Love Live. One might assume that certain familiar story beats would be prevalent within each version or that each series must follow a similar storyline but this is not always true. And while Nijigasaki may not have ...

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Jun 25, 2022

PandaUwU

Mixed Feelings

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Here we are with the anticipated second season of Love Live Nijigasaki. The first season received mixed reviews from fans of the series, but I thought it was the best Love Live installment at the time. This second season, however, does not properly execute based on the foundation laid by its predecessor.

This season of Nijigasaki introduces three new characters, Lanzhu, Shioriko, and Mia, but the story is centralized around Lanzhu and her interactions with Shioriko, Mia, and the girls of the School Idol Club. Her philosophy is to captivate others and put on an amazing performance, with that being the extent of it. She ... also disagrees with the beliefs of the School Idol Club, she believes that people should pursue their dreams without needing the help of others. This creates conflict within the characters, where both sides believe in different things. Additionally, this creates an antagonist within the show, which is a first for Love Live, as well as one of the most interesting things that Love Live has done since its start in 2014.

Where I find this anime to struggle is keeping its attention on this theme. At the start, it focuses on this quite solidly, featuring several developments between Lanzhu and the girls to further the plot. One of the main things that occurred during this development was the creation of subunits. Initially, the first subunit was made to “challenge” Lanzhu’s ideology. I feel that this progressed the plot well, carrying the themes of dreams nicely in a short, few-episode mini-arc. After this, two more subunits were formed. Why? I have no clue. The creation of these subunits made absolutely no sense. One of the more important things during the previous season of Nijigasaki was that everyone was a solo idol. Why do they suddenly want to join up when they were against it before? It’s incomprehensible.

The pacing of this season was very inconsistent. Every arc in the show is dedicated to one or two episodes. Everything that was dedicated to a single episode was rushed, yet all assigned two episodes were properly developed. One exception to this rule was Mia, where I felt she got proper development due to how differently she was written from the rest of the cast. She got a single episode to share with Lanzhu, plus little bits of other episodes. Overall, this helped make her development feel more natural and did not require her to have an entire episode dedicated to herself. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about Shioriko or Lanzhu. Shioriko followed the single episode rule, while Lanzhu only felt like she got the episode with Mia and bits of other episodes. While yes, Mia got the same treatment and it worked, why is Lanzhu different? Well, she is the main “antagonist,” while Mia was more of a side character. This inherently means there should be more put behind her than the other characters and this is where her character faltered.

Another problem I had with the characters was the relationship between Ayumu and Yu. It could have been handled much more strongly. There was a deficiency of interactions within this season and it makes me question why they decided to establish their relationship in the former season. It wasn’t completely terrible though, as the show dedicated episode 12 to the two of them, which was one of the better episodes within the show.

Despite everything I said so far, not everything about the characters and story is bad. The new characters bounce off the old ones when they interact and interactions between the cast as a whole are sharper than in the previous season. I had a solid amount of fun watching these events play out. The story is starting to reach its end as well. From where they are currently, they’ve started to worry about the graduation of the third-years. Although this could be seen as generic sports anime worries, or standard Love Live “we gotta win before the third-years graduate” kind of thing, I quite enjoy it. It is not an unreasonable thing to think about, while also providing a sense of time.

The animation for this season was varied in quality, but overall solid. My biggest issue is the background art. Sometimes it looked perfectly fine, nothing too amazing, but was solid; at other times it looked like garbage. The backdrops looked like blurry jpegs without even attempting to be hidden. Characters would also be poorly composited within the scene. Outside of these moments, the show looked fine. The character models looked consistent most of the time and the performances looked solid. The animated segments of the performance all looked great, on par with the images from the game they’re based on. The CGI parts were decent. They weren’t as groundbreaking as something like Houseki no Kuni, nor as well-hidden as those in Love Live Superstar, but they looked fine.

Speaking of performances, how did everything sound? It sounded really solid. The BGM was nice to listen to throughout the episodes, and the performances sounded pleasant. Granted, some performances were stronger than others, all were at least something that I would see myself listening to. The lyrics to these songs were all nice and occasionally meaningful, linking to their character arcs within the show, or, in the case of Lanzhu during the first episode, telling you about their character.

This season of Nijigasaki has some highs, as well as some lows. From a technical standpoint, this show is pretty solid, providing captivating performances, while from a writing standpoint, this show can be lacking at times. Overall, this season has been somewhat of a downgrade from its promising first season, which has been very unfortunate to witness.

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Jul 17, 2022

DaddyDubs

Not Recommended

This season sucks.

(Some) of music like Emotion is great, and there's a few things to like here and there, Ai for example gets a great episode which was really surprising because I honestly didn't care about her at all. But that's about all I have to say positive about Niji season 2. So let's go thru all the negatives.

1- Inconsistent animation
In some of the episodes, the animation looks great and then in other episodes it's extremely lazy for no reason whatsoever. I don't expect this level of laziness from Sunrise, and it's unacceptable for a massive studio that prides itself on quality.

2- Characters and ... Character Relationships
Ayumu and Yuu's relationship (which I didn't care much for in season 1) takes a complete 180 in season 2 especially towards the end in a laughably sad attempt to create drama because the writers must have realized there was no tension or anything to captivate the audience in the previous 8-9 episodes. It's like whoever wrote the later episodes didn't even watch season 1 or just forgot about it.

3- Exposition
You have no idea how awful it was sitting through 11 minutes of characters monologuing. I think the episode with Qu4rtz was one of the worst but there's several where nothing interesting happens other than a song (some episodes don't even get that) and there's tons of time with characters just blabbing something that never gets brought up again just to pad time and get the episode over with.

4- Our three new girls
Out of the three new girls, the only one with a slightly interesting arc was Mia. Lanzhu seemed like she was going to be a villain character like in the game but what happens is nowhere near as exciting. Shioriko's episode is even worse.

5- Jokes fall flat
The jokes are so poorly timed in this season. The problem isn't even writing it's just that the delivery is terrible and they fail ALMOST every single time. Great example is this one scene where Kasumi rages, but the voice acting doesn't even match the expression she makes so it's not even funny.

Stay away from this season if you have high standards for anime. Even as a Love Live enthusiast I expected some semblance of quality but what I got was the beginning of Sunrise mass-producing Love Live for nothing other than to make a profit. I thought first season of Nijigasaki and the game were just mediocre and bland with a few good songs and jokes, but this was just depressing. I just wanted the episodes to be over so I could catch up on Komi and Spy X Family, and while I don't think either of those shows are 10/10 Oscar-worthy masterpieces, they don't insult the audience's intelligence and actually want to tell an entertaining story.

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