Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai 2nd Season

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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Yuuki, Setsuna Main

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Tennouji, Rina Main

Tanaka, Chiemi Japanese

Konoe, Kanata Main

Kitou, Akari Japanese

Nakasu, Kasumi Main

Sagara, Mayu Japanese

Uehara, Ayumu Main

Onishi, Aguri Japanese

Ousaka, Shizuku Main

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Miyashita, Ai Main

Murakami, Natsumi Japanese

Takasaki, Yuu Main

Yano, Hinaki Japanese

Asaka, Karin Main

Kubota, Miyu Japanese

Mifune, Shioriko Main

Koizumi, Moeka Japanese

Ootsuka, Hiroshi Producer

Kawamura, Tomoyuki Director

Nagasaki, Yukio Sound Director

Egami, Kiyoshi Episode Director

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Sep 16, 2022

whatsosticky

Recommended

I give this show a lot of credit. There was no lack of continuity between season 1 and season 2. There were some changes that I appreciated, ones that I took exception with in the first season, most notably they took away the 3D performances and made them 2d. I think it made it flow much better. The character development is time went by and the challenges that come along with getting older I handled well. There's still an overwhelming sense of excessive positivity, though it's much more under control this season. I think this was a very nice leave put together show and this ... second season gave proof that success can be maintained without something going bad as is seen in other shows. This is a good watch, in my opinion. I really enjoyed it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 25, 2022

valiantslakr

Mixed Feelings

Well, as someone who used to play a lot of Love Live: SIFAS, which this is all loosely based off of, season 1 left me disappointed with the lack of interesting conflict or drama due to none of the "antagonists" showing up. This left me hopeful that season 2 would correct this; I was left sorely disappointed once more.

Lanzhu was supposed to be the ultimate villainess that split the idol club apart, and ended up being quickly defanged and befriended as a secret fangirl of the other girls. As for Shioriko, she was introduced as an afterthought instead of a true challenger to ... Setsuna's position as the student council president, and barely had ANY presence or character as a result.

I understand that the mobile game plot's drama wasn't exactly popular with the hardcore love live fanbase, but neutering these two characters THIS far is quite frankly, ridiculous. There is now absolutely zero stakes, conflict, or drama, and the entire show is now just fluff and girls just singing and dancing for the sake of it, with no real ultimate goal or actually visible character development. The resulting show is an incredibly boring slog to watch through, music video sequences aside.

I'm sure the hardcore love live fanbase that dislikes any sort of drama will like this, but come on man, there's MANY "cute girls doing cute things" shows that are far more entertaining to watch than this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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