'Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukou-kai' TV Anime Announced

by Sakana-san
Dec 15, 2019 10:24 AM | 38 Comments

The Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukou-kai First Live "with You" concert announced a new television anime for the franchise on Sunday. The new anime, titled Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukou-kai (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club), will be based on a new set of idols from the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS rhythm game.

Idol Cast
Ayumu Uehara: Aguri Oonishi (Shoumetsu Toshi)
Kasumi Nakasu: Mayu Sagara (Idol Memories)
Shizuku Osaka: Kaori Maeda (Back Street Girls: Gokudolls)
Karin Asaka: Miyu Kubota (Uchi no Ko no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai.)
Ai Miyashita: Natsumi Murakami (Aikatsu Stars!)
Kanata Konoe: Akari Kitou (Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu)
Setsuna Yuki: Tomori Kusunoki (Assassins Pride)
Emma Verde: Maria Sashide (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!)
Rina Tennoji: Chiemi Tanaka (Sakura Quest)

A 4-koma manga by Hito Miyako launched on the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS official website last year. The serialization moved to Dengeki G's website on July 23 and is published every Tuesday.

Love Live! is a project between animation studio Sunrise, music label Lantis, and Kadokawa's Dengeki G's magazine. It debuted in 2010, with the single Bokura no Live Kimi to no Life by μ's. The franchise has since spawned multiple adaptations including anime, manga, light novels, games, and live concerts. Sunrise produced two seasons of Love Live! School Idol Project in 2013 and 2014, which centered around μ's. A movie followed in 2015.

The project then began focusing on the nine-member unit Aqours, who made their debut single Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru kai? in November 2015. Love Live! Sunshine!!, which centers on Aqours, aired in July 2016, followed by a second season in October 2017. A movie, subtitled Over the Rainbow, opened in January of this year.

Official site: http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/nijigasaki/

Source: Anime Recorder

Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai on MAL

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Staff list and Studio: https://twitter.com/air_news01/status/1222574748292411392?s=21

Good to see Studio Sunrise helming this, just like the previous instalments!

Jan 29, 2020 9:41 AM by _MushiRock11_

NanaPirro said:
I'm not too fond of Rina hiding. I hope it's because of a worse shyness than Hanayo / Ruby's. and not disfigured as was Niki Lauda

From what I gather, it's not shyness or anything like that.

Rather, she greatly struggles with expressing emotions, so she has a notepad with various facial expressions drawn on it (referred to as a board) to help her with this. Also a high-tech headset with a mask as part of her idol outfit (I will admit the first time I saw her design, this whole masked thing plus Sunrise being responsible for the anime for both of the previous group caused me to mentally compare her to Char of all people. Needless to say I don't make that comparison anymore... though I still went and listened to Beyond The Time when she revealed her actual face as a nod to my initial impressions).

Speaking of that face reveal, she was only able to manage a faint smile - again, she struggles greatly with facial expressions, so that faint smile took everything she had.

Dec 22, 2019 4:43 PM by TARDISES

The character design is incredibly good, I can't wait <3 Shizuku <3

Dec 19, 2019 12:25 PM by Ysuis

I was expecting this but receiving the news makes me very happy!!

Dec 19, 2019 12:24 PM by Ysuis

the girls look better to me than the first two, hopefully that's enough to save this series.

Dec 17, 2019 12:08 AM by removed-user

NanaPirro said:
I'm not too fond of Rina hiding. I hope it's because of a worse shyness than Hanayo / Ruby's. and not disfigured as was Niki Lauda

She's revealed her face in the game, so if you're curious, you can always just look it up

Dec 16, 2019 4:03 PM by Marcusbob

Very nice I love Love Live so def gonna watch the new cast

Dec 15, 2019 10:14 PM by Ramkec

Retolee said:
Hopefully things go a little bit different this time.

plot-wise, yes it will be very different since in the original game, it's not the usual school closing route, and the girls are individual idol instead of a group!

Dec 15, 2019 9:35 PM by Meira_Eve

So, nezuko chan join love live as a high school stundent + singer, right ?

Dec 15, 2019 9:35 PM by ronald_bastian

gadboyz said:

NeoAnkara said:
I can finally see Bandori And LL head to head in anime too.

Heat to head in anime? Nope
But as franchise. It can be competitive.

Don't really know the number for franchise as a whole but currently on the game part the standing is like this.

Im@s > Bandori > LL

Sometimes it is this depending on how big is the event.

Bandori > Im@s > LL

Rarely it is like this.

Im@s > LL > Bandori

And never LL overtake Im@s. Im@s still pretty much the judgernaut on the gaming front.

Dec 15, 2019 6:41 PM by NeoAnkara

shanimebib said:
Oh you should! The scriptwriter for the franchise is Hanada Jukki. The man behind Hibike!, YoriMoi and YagaKimi! The legend of All Girl (or mostly girls) Cast.

Oh wow, didn’t know that. It definitely rose up in my priority list, thanks!

Dec 15, 2019 6:12 PM by _MushiRock11_

NeoAnkara said:
I can finally see Bandori And LL head to head in anime too.

Heat to head in anime? Nope
But as franchise. It can be competitive.

Dec 15, 2019 6:05 PM by gadboyz

Hopefully things go a little bit different this time.

Dec 15, 2019 5:50 PM by Retolee

Nice, I've been waiting for this

Dec 15, 2019 5:32 PM by Marureviere

Ahh, I'm so excited!! I love Love Live and I'm looking forward to adopting new daughters and wedding new waifus

Dec 15, 2019 5:23 PM by feliciti

I can finally see Bandori And LL head to head in anime too.

Dec 15, 2019 4:40 PM by NeoAnkara

_MushiRock11_ said:
Definitely going to give this a franchise a go in 2020!

Congratulations to the fans of the franchise btw!

Oh you should! The scriptwriter for the franchise is Hanada Jukki. The man behind Hibike!, YoriMoi and YagaKimi! The legend of All Girl (or mostly girls) Cast.

Dec 15, 2019 3:48 PM by shanimebib

Finally, finally!
I've been thinking of whether I should play the mobile game or not but I'll just watch this anime.

Dec 15, 2019 3:47 PM by Nemesis_Ranka

Definitely going to give this a franchise a go in 2020!

Congratulations to the fans of the franchise btw!

Dec 15, 2019 3:34 PM by _MushiRock11_

I thought the original and Sunshine were going to be the only iterations we got of this universe, and I enjoyed both of them, so I'm pleasantly surprised! I hope it holds up to the other two's standards. The art looks as gorgeous as ever.

Dec 15, 2019 3:23 PM by WolfGoddess77

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