Love Live! School Idol Project | |
Promotional image featuring the main characters of Love Live!. Clockwise from the center: Honoka, Umi, Kotori, Maki, Nozomi, Eli, Rin, Hanayo and Nico.
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ラブライブ! (Rabu Raibu!) |
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Genre | Comedy |
Manga | |
Written by | Sakurako Kimino |
Illustrated by | Arumi Tokita |
Published by | ASCII Media Works |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Dengeki G's Magazine Dengeki G's Comic |
Original run | January 2012 – present |
Volumes | 5 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Takahiko Kyōgoku |
Written by | Jukki Hanada |
Music by | Yoshiaki Fujisawa |
Studio | Sunrise |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, TVA, ytv, BS11 |
English network | |
Original run | January 6, 2013 – June 29, 2014 |
Episodes | 26 |
Light novel | |
Love Live! School Idol Diary | |
Written by | Sakurako Kimino |
Illustrated by | Akame Kiyose Natsu Otono Yūhei Murota |
Published by | ASCII Media Works |
Original run | May 30, 2013 – present |
Volumes | 12 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Takahiko Kyōgoku |
Studio | Sunrise |
Released | November 27, 2013 |
Runtime | 15 minutes |
Manga | |
Love Live! School Idol Diary | |
Written by | Sakurako Kimino |
Illustrated by | Masaru Oda |
Published by | ASCII Media Works |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Dengeki G's Comic |
Original run | June 2014 – present |
Volumes | 4 |
Game | |
Love Live! School Idol Paradise | |
Developer | Dingo Inc. |
Publisher | Kadokawa Games |
Genre | Rhythm |
Platform | PlayStation Vita |
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Love Live! (Japanese: ラブライブ! Hepburn: Rabu Raibu!) School Idol Project is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project revolves around a group of fictional schoolgirls who become idols in order to save their school from shutting down. It launched in the August 2010 issue of Dengeki G's Magazine, and went on to produce music CDs, anime music videos, two manga adaptations, and video games. A 13-episode anime television series produced by Sunrise and directed by Takahiko Kyōgoku aired in Japan between January and March 2013, with a second season airing between April and June 2014. Both anime series and film are licensed in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand by NIS America, MVM Entertainment and Madman Entertainment, respectively. An animated film titled Love Live! The School Idol Movie was distributed by Shochiku and released in June 2015. A follow-up project focusing on a new set of idols, titled Love Live! Sunshine!!, launched in 2015.
Honoka Kōsaka is a girl who attends Otonokizaka Academy. When the school is scheduled to be closed due to a lack of applicants, Honoka becomes determined to save it. Honoka goes to UTX, where her little sister planned to go for high school, and sees a crowd watching a music video of A-Rise, UTX's school idol group. Learning that school idols are popular, Honoka and her friends follow A-Rise's footsteps and start their own school idol group called μ's (ミューズ Myūzu, pronounced "muse") to attract new students. Once they successfully prevent Otonokizaka Academy from closing, the girls from μ's set their sights higher. They participate in Love Live, the ultimate school idol competition featuring the best groups in the country. Despite winning the competition, the girls from μ's disband soon after for their own personal reasons.