Audience reviews
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josephsl
Turning the iconic Tokyo Big Sight convention center into a high school is such an outrageous idea. It's hilarious how much the show leans into the bit, having the characters do normal school things in a space that clearly wasn't designed to be a school at all. Yet it and the wider Odaiba area make a unique, distinctive setting that's perfect for this installment of the franchise. As opposed to Love Live Sunshine, which was about a bond with a town few would have heard of otherwise, Nijigasaki is about coming together in an attraction-filled place many in the world have already been to and connected with. The show's visuals capture this special area well, in all its weirdly spacious and vaguely futuristic glory.
The biggest departure from the Love Live that came before is that this time t…
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This anime is the third series of Love Live franchise. But you can't really call it the sequel to the previous one. This one feels like its a spin off. They didn't follow the usual emotional story. This is how you expect an idol anime to be about. Just an anime filled with content that related to idol. And not an anime that filled with heavy drama. I mean Nijigasaki is created for a mobile games at first, so it would be logical if they want to invite gamer viewer into the idol genre. As a long fan of the LL franchise, I got a great time watching this one without the need to prepare my mental emotion so I can continue watching the story unfold.
Although I say that the story isn't heavy, it is still worth watching. Simple everyday problem in which you can relate too. The individual element…
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This was thoroughly enjoyable. The story of drive and determination is great, a little over the top with the positivity, but that's common with a lot of shows like this. They do go through struggles and help each other through it, though, which is truly great. It's realistic and relatable.
There's only two detractors I have and they're really fairly minor. In the dubbed version, any text it is presented is not translated, mostly really important things like any of the songs (a huge deal to me!), but also things like text messages. While the 3D performance is our unique, they are an awkward switch from the 2D and don't run entirely smoothly. This is not enough for me to not rate it well.
I'm sure that if slice of life with high goals is your thing, you'll like this.
Read at the sourceStarbthe8th
I’m a little late to the party tonight, as season 2 of Nijigaku is airing as I write this review. As a longtime fan of the original School Idol Festival mobile game (happy ninth anniversary, btw), it pleases me to see this anime getting so much love—I also feel that as a longtime fan, I owe it a fair review.
So, how does Nijigaku stack up against the μ’s and Aqours animes?
Story: 4/10
Many people are praising Nijigaku for shaking up the Love Live formula. Unfortunately, this cause of appeal for some is also the root of one of its coremost issues: it lacks a strong sense of character goals, resulting in a loss of plot direction. Consequently, with loss of strong goals and direction comes loss of strong emotional pull over these elements.
There is nothing inherently wrong with slice-of-l…
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I have been fan of Love Live from 2013, right when the first season of the original Love Live starts, so I believe I am right to say that this is not a good Love Live anime, not at all. It feels more like an advertisement for the game instead.
Story: there is a lack of a main story line. Unlike the LL Project, LL Sunshine and LL Superstar, Nijigasaki is just about a bunch of cute girls doing cute idol things. And as most of you know, Nijigasaki is about how instead of being a group of school idols, they are solo idols instead. For me, this is the worst decision ever. Even though the characters are doing things together, they never truly had that "togetherness" that makes them feel like Love Live.
Art: eh, this is just me but I feel the art is a bit too clean and doesn't have that unique…
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Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (we’ll call it NijiGaku here) isn’t terrible. In fact, I’m scoring it similarly to previous idol anime I’ve watched, some of which I consider myself a fan of. Despite my rabid consumption of idol anime, I am an anime fan first and foremost, so I know that idol anime are not often considered masterpieces in the sea of the industry. And that’s okay. Sometimes, the anime isn’t the strongest part of each franchise, and this seems to be the case for NijiGaku. When considering the anime critically and comparing it to its predecessors of School Idol Project and Sunshine, it plays it safe and doesn’t do much to be completely groundbreaking.
Part of the issue lies in the scenario that NijiGaku is given. Previous incarnations of Love Live have had bigger…
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Everything about Love Live is empty and meaningless. Every single interaction, every single song, every single scene holds as much importance as a gust of wind. It’s devoid of any substance, and any attempt it tries to fill the characters with some sort of personality is shallow, and comes off as forced.
The only notable points of the show are its animation and songs, which are both well produced and pleasing to listen/watch. Unfortunately, the characters singing these songs are the absolute worst.
While I’ll at least pat their back for trying to develop characters, their problems and personalities can be summed up in single sentences - which conveniently is how long it takes for them to overcome said problems.
Nothing about the show is worth the time sink - in fact, the show’s an abso…
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My favorite idol anime because it didn't disappoint me in waiting.
This anime has some interesting episodes, some of the stories are nothing but the ending of this anime is very good.
An anime that reflects the life of an idol very well.
I admit that some episodes of this anime are not very interesting, but not too boring.
The development of characters in this Anime is not bad and not too good.
The art style is very good.
This anime, the music was performed really well, not bad at all, and I loved it.
And if you want to watch this anime line, you can watch it if you like the idol genre, but if you don't like idol that's fine, you can watch it too.
Read at the sourceTabemonogatari
By all accounts, this Love Live! spinoff was a complete surprise for me and I absolutely loved it. First, let me explain my point of view; I’m only interested in Love Live! purely for being a slice of life show and I enjoy it for that. I don’t particularly care about idol music/culture, nor do I care about the mobile game this particular season is based on. I’ve seen a lot of reviews more critical of this saying it was disappointing compared to the mobile game’s story, so while that possibly may be, my perspective is of that pertaining only to viewing this as its own thing and I’m judging it only from that view.
Now, as I said before, the mobile game this is based on doesn’t interest me at all, and before this came out I was expecting a half-baked, serviceable show with one dimensional ch…
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Para começar, acho importante lembrar que Love Live é como uma franquia e seus vários títulos (Nijigasaki, Sunshine etc) funcionam independentes um do outro. Se você estava na dúvida se há uma ordem certa para assistir ou se algum se trata de um reboot do original Love Live School Idol Project, agora já sabe que não. Mesmo assim, vou usar Love Live School Idol Project de 2013 para ressaltar alguns pontos nessa review.
Tirado isso do caminho, vamos lá:
A primeira coisa que gostaria de exaltar é a qualidade visual da obra. Em Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukai fica nítida a preocupação do estúdio com o padrão entregue, visto que se esforçam ao máximo para evitar o uso de anima…
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Remember when this anime key visual came out? People was freaking out to see Niji anime has different artstyle. I think it's fine because they was getting used to LLSIP and LLS artstyle. Anyway, here's a quick review by me:
Strengths:
- no more 'school closing down' premise
- having protagonist character (Yuu) which is kinda reminds you of idol manager
- some character designs looks unique
- having pure foreigner character and blond character who isn't foreigner or half
- one character focus episodes of each characters
- somehow the dancing scenes are improved
- genre variety of the characters solo songs - No washi-washi scenes so far
- SIF normal card cameo (just Shinonome and Touou) and some are voiced!
Weakness:
- Plot felt rushed
- The plot isn't really challenging compared to previo…
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As a longtime fan of love live and someone who's actually played a fair bit of the mobile game that this is loosely based off of, I have to say, I'm unfortunately underwhelmed by this anime. Don't get me wrong, aesthetically it's great; the new art style is very pretty, and the CGI is much improved from previous love lives, while the music is still solid. However, what makes this a 6/10 and not a 8-10 out of 10 is the fact that there is a lack of any real conflict for the entire anime.
Anything that remotely resembles conflict in an episode is almost immediately resolved within that episode, and usually the conflict itself doesn't have very serious stakes in the first place. As a result, this anime as a whole is very boring, and does not hold a candle to the original love live. Even suns…
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I had high expectations because I liked the design of the girls and at the beginning of the anime the plot was not very well developed, they tried to force things in and I did not like that, but as the anime progressed, It got pretty good and is recommended. Something that I really liked is how in each chapter they introduce the life and the solo of each character, at the moment of the plot each one has its problems and it is also something realistic that can be seen many times reflected in real life and that people can feel conformity before that. Also, I know that the protagonist is equivalent to us as the protagonist but I felt that she was always at all times leaving aside the relationships between the other members and only focusing on moments of the protagonist with another character…
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This anime really depends on who you personally like. As there are 9 different idols and each have their own episodes. So if you don't exactly like them, you won't enjoy that episode as much as the others. I enjoyed all of their songs but some were more forgettable for me, not saying they were bad. I just didn't enjoy it as much when it wasn't the one I really liked.
Personally my favorite character was Yuuki, I love her design, voice, and character the most. So early on I was like hook, but towards the middle I didn't care for it much. And this is just me being bias, it's not that this show is bad. But if you are looking at 9 different characters, it's honestly tough to say I love them all the same. Since I personally won't have mind just watching her the whole time with our two main gi…
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This might end up being my new favorite Love Live, and I never thought that I'd ever say that considering the first one holds a special place in my heart. But I really enjoyed this series.
Like every other Love Live, it starts with a set of characters who love school idols and want to be them. This group grows more and more and eventually we've got our big main cast. But unlike the love lives before, the end goal isn't to win Love Live. In fact, our main cast isn't even an idol group yet.
Their goal for most of this season is for them to figure out what sort of idol they want to be and progress towards that goal. Which leads to episodes devoted strictly to each character, learning more about them as well as the mental hurdles they have to get over to get to where they want to go. These…
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Just, i cant stop appreciating to this anime since its first debuting artstyle.
can't get enough with every possible nijigaku anime songs, they just made whole new feeling out of their composed musics from each characters. i keep getting goosebumps time after time to see overall works for this anime.
Also, how they put characters to this anime, it portait very-very powerful self-view as themselves.
one point thats very weak for this anime is that approach between characters with other characters. just they need to do more for that plothole.
nah im not reffering this anime story as its game story (since i've never actually read the game story itself.)
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I was working on a very in-depth review on why I think this is the best Love Live anime to date but it was going on far too long so I think it's best I just sum up my thoughts instead.
Simply put, I think this is the peak of the entire Love Live franchise. I was absolutely blown away, I went in with high expectations and it still somehow exceeded nearly all of them. The new story structure that puts the spotlight more on individual characters was a great change of pace from the previous Love Live animes. I'd been following the Nijigasaki girls since their initial reveal back in 2017 and there were a couple characters in the cast I was always pretty indifferent to, but this anime really allowed the characters to shine in ways they couldn't before and now my opinion of each one is much high…
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Quick Thoughts:
My favorite of the Love Live franchise.
Story:
Much of this season is spent on exposition, in the sense that each club member gets an episode focused on their development. While not technically episodic since there is timeline followed, it does have that feel to it. I felt the quality of these episodes was inconsistent, but i think they at least succeeded in giving each member some depth. Adding to this, the mood of the anime was inconsistent as well. The speed at which serious situations (relative to this type of anime) arise and then resolve is too quick. It kinda makes sense for the first several episodes, since they're short development arcs, but it was annoying at times during the last few episodes. Despite that, I think these things worked well for the pacing. You qu…
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Love live! Nijigasaki I find it less interesting than the previous two anime about Love Live! The story does not have one continuous story but is divided into individual episodes, which is not as enjoyable to watch as the previous ones.
However, the very idea of not one group of idols but individuals with different characters was a refreshing idea. Each of the protagonists represented themselves on stage or off stage in their own way. We see different performances in each episode, and as in previous editions of Love Live! everyone can find the idol they like the most, with whom they associate the most.
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Today I’ll be giving my thoughts on the newest entry into the Love Live franchise, Love Live Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. This is quite the good show, albeit it has some aspects that are questionable to say the least. Let’s get into specifics.
Story: 7
This show doesn’t really have a main story that the show stays with for the whole season, but it doesn’t really have to. It’s actually probably better to not have a central narrative in an idol show besides the idols pursuing their dreams of being an idol. What is there serves its purpose fine. Most of the episodes are episodic in nature. Each idol has their own episode dedicated to their character and its development, which is a very good structure for an idol show. My all-time favorite idol anime, The iDOLM@STER, has this structure…
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