Now that it’s the end of October and fall finally settling in, it’s time to share my thoughts on anything interesting during the month and of course, thoughts on any anime I decided not to cover.
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Love Live
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club – Episode 1 – The Start of the School Idol Dream
While this show was under my radar since they announced it like a few months ago, apparently, the third generation of Love Live group finally receives an anime. This is of course Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 12 and 13 (END) – Finding the Radiance
At last, we are finally at the end. Will the girls win Love Live and find their radiance?
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Top 5 Anime of 2017
With 2017 coming to a close, it’s time to share my thoughts on the top 5 five anime for 2017. As always, the list is subjective.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 11- The Festival to Honor The School
Now that Love Live is coming up soon, the students ask for a closing ceremony. Mari grants their wish.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 10 – Sarah’s and Leah’s Special Visit and Making a Wish
After Ruby and Leah performed their song they worked on together, Aqours receive some special training.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 9 – A Special Song
Last time, Saint Snow failed to make it to the final round. As a result, Leah is upset about her defeat that she wants to quit being a school idol. However, with Ruby’s help, she convinces her to work on a song together. Now, we get to find out how that turns out.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 8 – Leah’s Big Upset
While the girls couldn’t save their school, they continue on. With that, they come to Hokkaido to see their rivals, Saint Snow at their regional competitions.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 7 – The Surprising Outcome
From last time, Aqours performed at nationals. Did they make it and is it enough to save the school?
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Love Live School Idol Paradise (All Volumes) – Final Review
I have to admit that idol anime can be fun to watch. While it’s obvious that I like The Idolmaster a lot more, Love Live is enjoyable as well despite the music is not my cup of tea. When Dingo, who developed the Project Diva games on the PlayStation Portable, announced Love Live School Idol Paradise, it interests me. While it faced a few delays, does it live up to expectations? Maybe not and I will explain why you should probably skip this game and keep playing Love Live School Idol Festival instead.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 6 – Chika’s Miracle Wave
Now the nationals are near, the girls make the final preparations.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 5 – Riko Overcomes Her Fear for Dogs
Riko finally overcomes her fear with dogs?
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 4 – The Glorious Dia Episode
As expected, the girls managed to pass the preliminary rounds of Love Live. Meanwhile, Kanan and Mari finds out that Dia is acting funny.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 3 – Competition and Open House Delimma
Now the girls received a second chance, does this mean that the girls can do both the primaries and open house? Not really since Mari receives some more bad news.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 2 – Disagreements and The Case for Team Building
Now that the girls heard the bad news, they decide to move forward.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 1 – More Unexpected Bad News and Finding a Way Forward
While Aqours didn’t qualify for nationals from last time, they managed to attract 10 perspective students. Sadly, Mari have bad news to reveal to everyone.
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Love Live Sunshine!! – Final Review
Since its inception, Love Live School Idol Project have grown into a very popular idol-genre franchise. It garnered a lot of fans around the world with its story of a group of girls banding together to save their school through singing. Love Live Sunshine focuses on the successors of Muse, Aqours. Does it live up to the original series? Let’s find out.
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Fall 2017 Anime Preview
Now that summer have come to a close, it’s time to take a look of what I plan to watch for the fall.
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Chikorita’s Top 5 Anime Confessions
Now that a fourth of the year have passed, it’s time to share my anime and video game confessions. I know it’s embarrassing, but I think it’s going to be fun too.
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Top 5 Anime for 2016
Now that 2016 is finally coming to a close, it’s time to share my top 5 anime of 2016.
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12 Days for Anime for 2016 and Merry Christmas
Every year, I always do the twelve days of Anime thing and this year is no exception. Instead of sharing twelve moments related to Anime, I will share my thoughts on twelve anime girls from shows aired in 2016. This only includes new series, not sequels.
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Love Live and Idolm@ster – Both Good Idol Series with Different Appeals
Kai of Deluscar here reporting for duty. I’m here to wage idol war against Chikorita since I know he’s an idolm@ster guy. As I’m on the Love Live camp, unfortunately we will always be in opposition. Here’s my mission today, to infiltrate Chikorita’s blog and to spread the influence of Love Live from within an enemy base. Guerrilla warfare 101.
Before I go on though, I will admit I like both im@s and Love Live a lot. However it took me a rewatch for the former to appreciate it more, which I think was poor timing on my part. When I was watching im@s, I was still in the process of opening up to more genres, and marathoning it didn’t help either. The idol anime genre was definitely one genre I was pretty lukewarm to when I first came across it. As much as I love im@s now, it didn’t springboard me into an idol anime fan when I first watched it. So what did? Well, Love Live.
Watching Love Live allow me to see the bigger picture in idol anime, something which im@s never accomplished. So with this alone, Love Live pretty much won a lot of points for me. But additionally, despite being the same genre, both just have incredibly different settings with different appeals.
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Idol Anime and What Makes Them Similar to Sports Anime
It has been a few years since I shared my thoughts on idol anime and why they are popular. While looking at some discussions on Love Live! Sunshine!! on anime forums, I realized how similar idol anime is to sports anime. With that, I will share some thoughts on what aspects makes these genres feel similar.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 13 (END) – This is Our Story
The big day has come with the girls preparing for the regional competition. Are they ready?
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