'Love Live! Sunshine!!' TV Anime Announced for Summer 2016
Monday's Love Live! Sunshine!! Niconico Live program announced that the Love Live! franchise continuation will receive a TV anime in Summer 2016.
Love Live! Sunshine!! is part of the multimedia Love Live! project co-developed by Dengeki G's Magazine, animation studio Sunrise, and music label Lantis. The new project was announced last February and revealed in the June 2015 issue of Dengeki G's Magazine.
The new series follows the nine-member school idol group Aqours (pronounced "aqua") at Uranohoshi Girls' Academy in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Chika Takami, who is a fan of Otonokizaka Academy's μ's school idol group from the original Love Live! series, similarly forms Aqours in order to save her school from being closed down.
Aqours' first single, "Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru kai?," was released on October 7, 2015, with the music video animated by Sunrise. The group's second single was announced at the Niconico Live broadcast for release on April 27, 2016.
Kazuo Sakai, who directed the music video for the first single, will direct Love Live! Sunshine!! with character designs by Yuuhei Murota.
Official site: http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/uranohoshi/
Official English site: http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/uranohoshi/worldwide/
Source: Official website
Love Live! Sunshine!! on MAL
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Jun 15, 2016 2:21 AM by Grim05
I do not think relating CG to Sunshine makes sense. Cinderella Girls was based on a mobile game that had a ton of idols with one note personalities (baking sweets, ganbarimasu, etc). The anime tried to appease fans of the franchise by stuffing as many as they could into the anime, which (as an anime only viewer) was frustrating because I felt no characaters got a chance to develop because new girls kept getting the spotlight.
Sunshine is a spin off of Love Live with nine (not over 20, but nine) new girls. That to me is already less of a disasterpiece in the making than CG, which was almost guaranteed to be a clusterfuck.
Also, how can you say the group is such a mixed bag? There has been one single...It seems really early to judge the quality of all the characters.
Cinderella Girls was a disaster because they let a bad script writer in charge of it (same guy who wrote The iDOLM@STER Movie crap)...... I would assume based Jukki Hanada will be coming back to write the script for Sunshine so I don't expect it to suck that much. Although the change in director is a bit of a worry.
Jan 20, 2016 9:34 AM by scytheavatar
Jan 19, 2016 7:57 PM by GodlyKyon
Saw this coming.
Well these new girls are going to have some big shoes to fill in because i don't see none of them coming close to touching my goddess Maki.
I know that feeling.. I am a Pile fan, not maki lol We will see, I expect aqours to perform at Kouhaku and Tokyo Dome if they can <3
Jan 19, 2016 3:43 PM by jayvee2016
Well these new girls are going to have some big shoes to fill in because i don't see none of them coming close to touching my goddess Maki.
Jan 19, 2016 3:06 PM by KashKetchum
not sure how i feel about a new cast just with Cinderella Girls they could end up bad personality wise
Jan 18, 2016 7:42 PM by katsu044
Jan 17, 2016 11:55 AM by jayvee2016
Jan 17, 2016 11:35 AM by athenamizunashi
Jan 13, 2016 10:59 PM by Gzp10704
Jan 13, 2016 3:33 PM by Kotarou_
Jan 13, 2016 7:21 AM by RogerSrs
Jan 13, 2016 5:54 AM by MagicalMahou
If they can surpass the original I'll really be impressed though.
Jan 13, 2016 5:25 AM by DrTonkotsu
Jan 13, 2016 4:37 AM by Magito
Making them younger (judging by the visuals) though isn't helping its cause. No need to cater to *that* audience...
Jan 13, 2016 3:27 AM by Rachmaninow
Looking forward to this! I dont feel the need to place high expectations on this since it does not deserve to be placed on a pedestal. I cant go wrong with more Love Live even if its a slight change of personalities. That does not mean I am bluepilled and a fake Love Live fan though, it just means I am pretty easy to please as it is.
Jan 13, 2016 12:38 AM by Aqutan
Jan 12, 2016 8:27 PM by Kotori_Sonoda
Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls sold well and look how that anime ended up, a complete disasterpiece. That just doesn't relieve the unease and it's worse in one case because while the main cast was bad for anime, most of them are ok as characters, Aquors is a general mixed bag as a group, I cannot trust that anything but the art and music will be good and I wouldn't have mind a different plot as well.
I do not think relating CG to Sunshine makes sense. Cinderella Girls was based on a mobile game that had a ton of idols with one note personalities (baking sweets, ganbarimasu, etc). The anime tried to appease fans of the franchise by stuffing as many as they could into the anime, which (as an anime only viewer) was frustrating because I felt no characaters got a chance to develop because new girls kept getting the spotlight.
Sunshine is a spin off of Love Live with nine (not over 20, but nine) new girls. That to me is already less of a disasterpiece in the making than CG, which was almost guaranteed to be a clusterfuck.
Also, how can you say the group is such a mixed bag? There has been one single...It seems really early to judge the quality of all the characters.
Jan 12, 2016 6:17 PM by Gar_Logan
But the issue also involves the Sunrise.
Sunrise has 13 sub-studios (or they cut it to 12 last year). 8th one is making Love Live.
They have 14, 10 of them under Sunrise name and 4 under Bandai Namco Pictures name
Jan 12, 2016 4:40 PM by Dab1za9
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Jun 15, 2016 2:29 AM by Grim05