Now the nationals are near, the girls make the final preparations.
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Love Live Sunshine!! Second Season – Episode 6 – Chika’s Miracle Wave
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The Idolmaster Platinum Stars – Final Review
For a while now, idols have become popular in Japan. While I enjoy Idolmaster 2 and One for All on the Playstation 3, Bandai Namco decides to make the jump to the Playstation 4. They announced The Idolmaster Platinum Stars on the franchise’s 10th anniversary live concert and released in July of 2016. It improves on the graphics drastically while introducing new gameplay. The question is, does it live up to the hype.
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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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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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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 12 – Finding Aqours’s Path to Win
Now that the girls have performed and Riko won her piano competition, will Aqours make it to the final round?
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 11 – You’s Hidden Feelings
It’s almost the big day as Riko goes off to the piano audition. On the other hand, You is acting strangely for some reason.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 10 – Snack Stand Shenanigans and Riko’s Confession
Now that Aquors is fully assembled, it’s time to prepare for the preliminaries. However, there is something that is bothering Riko for some reason.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 9 – The Other Side of the Story
Chika and the others found out why Dia gave up being a school idol. However, there is another part of the story that is missing.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 8 – Being a School Idol is Hard
It seems that Chika is in for a nasty surprise that will upset her.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 7 – First Step to Stardom
After recording and uploading the promotional video, it seems that Aquors gained popularity quickly. Chika is now excited after receiving an invitation to perform in Tokyo.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 6 – Promotional Video Troubles
It seems that Ruby heard some bad news. Is this the biggest opportunity Chika was waiting for to get the final three members on board?
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 5 – Yoshiko Embracing Yohane
It seems that Yoshiko wants to get rid of her Yohane identity. Well, she hasn’t realized that she can’t simply get rid of it.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 4 – Becoming an Idol is Not Impossible
Now that Mari has approved the club, it seems that Ruby wants to join. Will she convince Hanamaru to join as well?
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 3 – The Birth of Aquors
Now that Chika managed to convince Riko to join, how will she get past Dia? Mari has an answer.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 2 – Riko Finds Her Sparkle
Chika fights on as she continues to ask Riko to join, even if she refuses.
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Love Live! Sunshine!! – Episode 1 – A Familiar Beginning
It seems that Chika has a dream, but it seems harder than it looks.
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Kuma Miko – Episode 12 (END) – The Final Decision
After Machi became terrified, will she go on with the idol contest?
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Site Updates, 12 Days of Anime and Thoughts about Muse’s Decision to Disband
Now that Thanksgiving is over, 2015 is almost coming to a close. With that, it’s time to focus on the plans I have in store along with my thoughts on the recent announcement regarding Love Live.
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