Love Live!

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Love Live!
Original title ラ ブ ラ イ ブ!
transcription Rabu Raibu!
Lovelive! logo.svg
Franchise logo
genre Idol , comedy , slice of life
Print media
► Love Live! School Idol Project
(Manga)		 (since 2012)
► Love Live! School Idol Diary
(Manga)		 (since 2014)
► Love Live! School Idol Diary
( Light Novel )		 (since 2013)
► Love Live! Sunshine !!
(Manga)		 (since 2016)
Anime TV series
► Love Live! School Idol Project (2013-2014)
► Love Live! Sunshine !! (2016-2017)
► Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (in production)
► Love Live! Superstar !! (in production)
Anime motion pictures
► Love Live! The School Idol Movie (2015)
► Love Live! Sunshine !! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow (2019)
Video games
► Love Live! School Idol Festival (2013)
► Love Live! School Idol Paradise (2014)
► Puchiguru Love Live! (2018)

Love Live! is a Japanese multimedia - franchise , which in collaboration between the magazine Dengeki G's Magazine by the publisher ASCII Media Works , the music label Lantis and the animation studio Sunrise produced.

The project revolves around a group of nine high school friends who are friends and who decide to become professional idols to save their school from being closed. Love Live! was announced in the July 2010 issue of Dengeki G and since its launch in August of the same year has produced two implementations as a manga series, a light novel cycle, two anime television series and feature films as well as several CD releases.

production

Since the first issue of Dengeki G's Magazine was published by ASCII Media Works , the publishers of the magazine have organized reader participation games that are directly inspired by the readership. Love Live! was first featured in the July 2010 issue, saying that the magazine would collaborate with the Sunrise animation studio and the Lantis record company to produce the multimedia project . In the July issue, the plot, character information and other project details were published. In this announcement it was also announced that a first CD single and a DVD would be released in August, which will be available during Comiket 78 , among others . The story comes from the pen of romancière Sakurako Kimino who also writes short stories of the project for the Dengeki G's. The character design and the illustrations are made by Yūhei Murota .

Since the official start of the project, telephone votes have been held at certain times to determine the popularity of the individual characters. These votes affect the positions the characters occupy in the anime music videos . For example, it is determined which idol is the focus of a video. Other rankings determine other aspects, such as the hairstyle or the clothes worn. In the November 2010 issue, magazine readers were able to vote on the name of the Idol group. It was possible to choose between five names, which the editors had previously identified from all the entries. This is how the first idol group got its name μ’s . A similar selection process was used for the three subgroups of the Idol group. These are the names of the sub-units of μ's Printemps , BiBi and White Lily .

media

Print media

In January of 2012, started romancière Sakurako Kimino a reaction as a manga with illustrations by Arumi Tokita in Dengeki G's Magazine . The publication in this magazine ended with the May issue in 2014 and has been continued in Dengeki G's comic ever since . In September 2012, the first manga was published in the Tankōbon format. By May 2014, three more volumes of the manga had been published. A second manga series, also written by Kimino, has appeared in Dengeki G's Comic since June 2014. This time Masaru Oda was responsible for the drawings. The first volume of the manga was published in September 2014. In Germany , the two manga series have been published by Egmont Manga since 2016 .

A light novel series about Love Live! School Idol Diary , which was written by Kimino like the two manga series, started in May 2013 and produced eleven volumes by August of the following year. The illustrations are by Yūhei Murota, Natsu Otono and Akame Kiyose. In September 2014 a fan book for the franchise was published, which contains all articles about Love Live! published between July 2010 and February 2013.

To continue Love Live! Sunshine !! a manga series has been published in Dengeki G's Magazine since May 2016. On June 30, 2016 ASCII Media Works published a 160-page fan book for the fictional idol group Aqours , which introduces all members of the group and contains an original manga.

Anime TV series and motion pictures

  • Cosplay to Love Live! School Idol Project (μ's)

  • Honoka Kōsaka, 2015.

  • Eli Ayase, 2019.

  • Rin Hoshizora, 2018.

  • Hanayo Koizumi, 2017.

  • Kotori Minami, 2017.

  • Maki Nishikino, 2017.

  • Umi Sonoda, 2015.

  • Nozomi Tojo, 2017.

  • Nico Yazawa, 2015.

The franchise brought Love Live! School Idol Project and Love Live! Sunshine !! two anime television series with 26 episodes each. Both series were produced in the Sunrise studio. In mid-December 2019, the production of a third anime series, Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club , announced.

Both anime television series were licensed in North America by NIS America for home video release in English on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. MVM Entertainment launched the UK's first anime television series . In Australia and New Zealand , the anime was released by Madman Entertainment . In German-speaking countries only Love Live! Sunshine !! at the anime publisher Kazé Anime in German.

The first movie, Love Live! The School Idol Movie , hit Japanese theaters in June 2015, grossing over 2.8 billion yen there alone. In the United States, the film grossed $ 115,000. The film also received a nomination in the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Animation, which resulted in an award in the Awards of Excellence category . With Love Live! Sunshine !! The School Idol Move: Over the Rainbow released a second film in early 2019.

NIS America released the first North American feature film on DVD and Blu-ray. In Germany , the second film was shown in cinemas as part of the Akiba Pass Festival 2019.

Two new anime projects were announced in 2020: The first project is called Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and is an offshoot of the main series during the second project, Love Live! Superstar !! connected to the main series.

Video games

A music game for the smartphone under the name Love Live! School Idol Festival was produced by the game developer KLab and published for iOS devices by Bushiroad in 2013 . The game is a mixture of trading card game , music game and visual novel . The game was later made available worldwide for Android and iOS devices. The English language server was later merged with the Korean server.

In September 2019 in Japan with Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars released a new game that features new characters, including the members of Aqours and new characters from Nijigasaki High School Idol Club . At the end of February 2020, a global server was also opened for this game.

In 2014, a game series developed by the game developer Dingo Inc. was released for the PlayStation Vita . This series is called Love Live! School Idol Paradise and was published in three volumes that deal with the subgroups of μ’s . Within the first week of sales, the games were sold almost 88,200 times in Japan alone.

As part of an advertising campaign, Rin Hoshizora, a character from Love Live! -Universum, 2015 to face for the game series Puyo Puyo of the developer SEGA . In 2018, the smartphone game Puchiguru Love Live! released for Android and iOS, with the servers already closed in May 2019.

Music publications

The Love Live! -Franchise has so far produced two fictional idol groups: μ’s - existed from 2010 to 2016 - and Aqours . The members of the two main groups are each divided into three subgroups. So were Printemps , BiBi and White Lily sub-units for μ's, while CYaRon! , AZALEA and Guilty Kiss represent the subgroups of Aqours. These groups produced numerous single and album releases, which both achieved high chart ratings - in some cases even first place - as well as musical awards in the form of a gold record in Japan .

success

Commercially

Porsche 997 GT 3R of Team Direction in 2014 on the race track in Suzuka , Japan .
McLaren MP4-12C GT3 of Team Pacific during the 1000 km race in Suzuka, Japan, 2015.

In 2014 Love Live! an award as part of the Animation Kobe . One year later, the fictional idol group μ’s received the Singing Award at the ninth presentation of the Seiyū Awards . In the same year, the group was ranked eighth of the most successful music groups of the year. μ's sold over 800,000 CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs valued at over 3.15 billion yen in 2015. In 2013 and 2014, the Idol group was ranked 64th and 13th of the most successful groups in Japan, respectively. In 2016, the group was the 10th best artist in Japan with revenues of just over 2.5 billion yen. In 2016 the group received a special award at the Gold Disc Awards ; her second album Love Live! μ's Best Album Best Live! collection II was also named Anime Album of the Year.

In 2016 Love Live! the most commercially successful mass media franchise in Japan ; in the previous year the franchise took fourth place. In 2016 the Love Live! -Franchise eight billion yen - five billion could be generated in the previous year. Raw data from total DVD, Blu-ray, CD, Manga and light novel sales were used to calculate the numbers, while revenue from video games, cinema tickets, digital downloads and other forms of digital media was not taken into account. From 2015 to 2018, the franchise grossed over 23 billion yen from physical media sales alone.

In 2014 and 2015, the Japanese motorsport teams Pacific Racing and Team Direction drove racing cars with motifs from the franchise.

Controversy

Player of the English language version of the smartphone game Love Live! School Idol Festival found that all parts of the game with homosexual references between the characters had been removed. Instead, some parts have been changed so that the characters maintain a heterosexual relationship. Game developer KLab has published a statement on this:

"We have reviewed the English version of Love Live! School Idol Festival in light of our gamers' thoughtful and heartfelt comments. Overall, we think that our localization effectively conveyed both the content and tone of the original. We also think that perhaps we could have done better with the translations of some of the dialogue. We view our relationship with our gamers are [sic] very much a two-way street: we hope to provide fun and entertaining games and are always open to feedback (including constructive criticism) where we can do better. "

- Statement from KLab

“In the course of the thoughtful and heartfelt comments on the games of the English version of Love Live! School Idol Festival we checked the game. We too think that we could have translated some dialogues better. We see our relationship with our players [sic!] More like a two-lane road: We hope that we can offer the players fun and entertainment and we are always open-minded about feedback (including constructive criticism) on what we can do better. "

- free translation

In an update in June 2015, the original dialogs were restored.

In popular western culture

In October 2018 a major user invited NyanNyanCosplay Video platform TikTok high in them the song Mia Khalifa - also known as Hit or Miss - the hip-hop group iLoveFriday Nico Yazawa disguised resynchronised and an Internet phenomenon was. This video probably became a kind of catalyst, which should be to further inspiration of the internet phenomenon around the song. The Swedish YouTube personality PewDiePie used the video several times in his publications.

Web links

Individual evidence

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