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| ICHI! NI!! SAN!!! YON!!!! GO!!!!! ROKU!!!!!! NANA!!!!!!! HACHI!!!!!!!! KYUU!!!!!!!!! A group name!? YES! With nine members, Liella! needs a sub-unit. For someone whose dreams always failed... Natsumi can still encourage others to go for it. Even though you have failed countless times, there is still a dream and hope for you. School idol, it's her new dream. Now, it's time for you to be successful with your new, the school idol. Locations: Kanno Farm Chiyoda no Oka Observation Deck Furano Lavender Fields |
AkeZZZAug 21, 2022 4:49 AM
真姫ちゃん！ 何が好き？ トマト よりも あ･な･た♡  |
| Natsumi is so adorable. <3 I loved that forest scene with Kanon and Natsumi. It looked so magical. It's nice that they finally have 9 members. It's such an iconic number in this franchise. Very beautiful and colorful performance. :) |
SerafosAug 22, 2022 5:50 AM
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| Now is lookup the places featured in this episode. Which were great. Just really Kanon to purify a heart corrupted by shattered dreams. What a nice song and visuals to commemorate the completion of Liella! Now is the road to championship. |
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| Definitely felt like the fastest "absorption" of Liella's in awhile, but I'm not complaining. They took their time coaxing the others, so it's finally time to get the whole gang rollin~ And while short, I did like Natsumi's backstory. Very relatable overall (and while it might seem like Sumire's at first glance, it's different). ✧ "If you're going to give up, don't talk about having a dream!" ✧ |
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| Liella now 9 Members thanks to Natsumi joining and now finding her dream. Kinako's hometown is very colorful and beautiful just like their performance at the end it was amazing |
I teared up at this point though..Really missed µ's & Aqours.. |
| omg the new song is amazing and natsumi isnt annoying anymore |
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| Shiki and Mei have the absolute cutest relationship, I love them so much Natsumi redeemed herself a lot for me today. She was so annoying in the first two episodes, but as usual, Kanon is able to bring the best out of her and now she has a dream to strive towards. I like the first year’s goal to surpass their senpai too. Performance at the end was awesome! We finally have the full liella and what a great introduction it was. |
Marinate1016Aug 21, 2022 1:45 PM
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| Kinako is my waifu, she is PERFECTION <3. Love everything from her omg, she is super cute and pretty |
| Keke said the thing lmao. This week episode feels kinda weak to me. Natsumi's backstory and her feelings gradually changes towards Liella! just didn't hit the spot. Not saying it's bad, she's a good character, and of course we want too see how she will join Liella!. Someone who always wants to be no. 1 and to fail nonetheless. Thinking she was no good for someone with a big dream or at least a goal to pursue. She's also had the similarity with Sumire, but Sumire's backstory and conclusion to it was done perfectly, imo. Maybe I need to rewatch it to get a feel of it.  |
dang_ said: Keke said the thing lmao. This week episode feels kinda weak to me. Natsumi's backstory and her feelings gradually changes towards Liella! just didn't hit the spot. Not saying it's bad, she's a good character, and of course we want too see how she will join Liella!. Someone who always wants to be no. 1 and to fail nonetheless. Thinking she was no good for someone with a big dream or at least a goal to pursue. She's also had the similarity with Sumire, but Sumire's backstory and conclusion to it was done perfectly, imo. Maybe I need to rewatch it to get a feel of it. That star-form is really still controversial until now among original 5 member-formatted Liella's fans. |
| Finally all assembled. |
| Natsumi's backstory and transition from just exploiting the group for money to joining them feels way too abrupt and kind of falls flat for me because of that. Maybe they'd have been better off giving her more than 10 second cameos in the first four episodes so we could have gotten to know her more before she barged in last episode and so that her motivational speech to the other first years would feel a little less out of character for her to make. Also, Kanon suddenly travelling halfway across the country out to Hokkaido to recruit Natsumi was really dumb and lazy and just enhanced the feeling that the writers wanted to get this out of the way as quickly as possible. Other than that, the wait for a good Liella song in this second season continues. Granted, this was probably one of their best this season (better than GO RESTART, at least), but still nowhere near the incredibly high bar they set with their season 1 songs. Hopefully they pick up again now that we have all nine members at last. |
AtavisticAug 22, 2022 6:28 AM
| Multiple great things with this episode 1st the 1st years going to Kinako's place to train was really nice thanks to the diversity of the background and all, it's really different from the usual japanese countryside we're seeing in most anime and I really loved the colors originality and all, and finally some Natsumi's development on the good side for her, struggling to find a dream she found it with the Idol band and joined them eventually doing their 1st representation with the 9 members! Now she has a dream in her life to fulfill, I can't to wait to see how it's gonna be for Liella now that all the members are here |
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| Natsumi finally found her dream and it's becoming an idol, how surprising. Their first song with nine members which was nice. |
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| Hokkaido looked so pretty, especially that field at night Glad to see all nine of them together, its nice that Natsumi decided she'd also aim for the same goal Kanon showing up at night in a bear suit was kinda wild haha Can't wait for next weeks episode, it seems like it'll be hilarious |
| very inspiring episode. i enjoyed it a lot |
   » [The World's Continuation【世界のつづき】- UTA/Ado ♪] « 0:00 〇────── 4:55 ↺ |◁ II ▷| ♡ ✦ Come and Join us! ✦ Evil Club ψ FuwaFuwa Sanctuary ✿ ✿ DeaD Blossoms ✿ |
| Track is a bop! And Sunrise's CGI has vastly improved through the years, the CGI animation while they are performing the new track felt like it was a 2D animation. |
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| Onitsuka finally joins Liella. Also wtf was up with that performance xD |
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| I appreciate the fact they didn't try and make Oni have some secret deep back story. Kanon telling her to join them in their dream if she doesn't have one of her own was a lot more authentic. Also glad Oni isn't super annoying now. She may have pulled out of her nosedive into worst girl. |
| "Dumb people are worse than bad people." |
| Natsumi was at one click of becoming the most hated character in all Love Live history. I mean, not even Sumire was this scummy when she first used Liella for her own benefit. Also lol at Kanon's father making his daughter cross half Japan just to deliver something. And of course he was staying in Hokkaido as well... |
SouthRzVaAug 23, 2022 3:52 PM
| Shiki's real identity has to be Doraemon, that blue color theme and her gadgets. So OninatsuP's motivations were finally shown and you know what? I liked it, I wasn't a fan of hers at all but her having dreams and crashing hard because of fate or life or whatever was more than enough, not a tragic sad backstory but just life being life, it was kinda rushed her joining like "girl you had your 2 episodes we gotta move on" but hey, she was super cute on her first song. |
| I need a counter for how many times they said goal and dream this episode lol, but really I did like Natsumi’s little arc, I personally don’t think you need any big goals in life (I don’t really lol) but giving her backstory it definitely makes sense why she was so focused on having a dream or goal, and she definitely found one in Liella thanks to Kanon and the other girls’ help. I’ll say I don’t think they needed to ship Kanon across the country when the first year girls coulda talked Natsumi into it but it was still really nice when she decided to join. And man, the dance was a little goofy but the performance was killer for the first time we’re seeing all 9 of them together, the outfits were killer and the song was a jam, I really loved it. I also liked the chill countryside setting for most of this episode, nothing beats chilling with the LL Superstar girls lol. |
| It was nice to see more of Natsumi, but I still think she is annoying |
| would have preferred Natsumi's joining the group to be a little more emotional than doing it just in front of a single member of it that travels half the nation to ask THE question, but still very good episode. Who was she talking to in the cold opening? She had her videocam offscreen. Later, it was fun to see her forced to run by Shiki's never ending inventions that in the real world would make the lots of money that she wants, but at least... at least... she doesn't actually go through that horrible clickbait / fake news upload. The song was cute funny and catchy since the first seconds and is another top 5 for Liella. Also, Sumire's imagination about 1st years becoming arch-rivals was hilarious, Kinako seemed so out of character with that shifty Nozomi-esque smile, check that, she looked as a recolored Nozomi, period. |
_untitledAug 30, 2022 2:40 PM
(save your time and don't try to comfort when i rant on casual discussion or forum games, feel free to ignore me, i won't take it personally) |
| Kanon convince Natsumi that she can still have a dream that can be achieved. that bear costume reminded me of Kuma bear anime. lol finally, money girl has joined the team. 9 girl group now. looking forward to next episode. |
| I liked the new song, it's different. Love Live original and Superstar are the best idol anime. They just get it right |
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| So Kanon's dad is just a clumsy plot device. The bad writing is embarrassingly noticeable. |
| Finally, the bad girl went and found her dream. Thank goodness, I almost tried to kick her out from my mind. 😤 I'm currently binging this. I finally got time to watch this 2nd season! 🥰🥰🥰 Honestly, I am more fond of them when they were just 5 in a group and I respect that they will probably provide something of value instead of sticking to the old ways of being into a 9-person girl group. Their songs back then was so engaging than I really love their inspiring lyrics, but now... I just hope their quality won't be any lower than the first season. As a last comment for this episode. Looking forward for the best. |
ASinfulPersonageJul 19, 2023 3:55 AM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| This whole episode talking about how she could just join in making it her dream too and performing after it just feels very hollow. It's always easy as long as you are cute and like school idol, you can be an idol just like that, well played. I remember the original 5 members introduction in the first season was quite good but these first years just somehow very undercooked and quirky to be interesting which aren't interesting but ends up irritating to follow. |
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| Natsumi's turnaround from the most annoying character of the series to a relatable one was too quick and not really believable. You would think that there was a better reason for her obsession with money. |
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