Audience reviews
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Elyshion
Love Live! Sunshine!!, an excellent Spin-off with some flaws. Overall, this anime is very similar to the original series. However, even if it still remains a strong point of the anime, in terms of the soundtrack, in my opinion, their music is less good, whether it is the openings, the endings and the OST during the two seasons. I still notice that their music is more melancholic. The characters of most of the group's characters are similar compared to the original series, even if their developments still make them unique. The animation and the character design are very beautiful, very fluid and very dynamic even with the CGI, especially during the concerts. In addition, the colors are bright like the color of their hair which is the same as in Love Live!. In short, it's a little disappoint…
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This is a review of seasons 1, 2, and the movie.
My only experience with Love Live is with the original anime. I thought it was ok, but didn't fall in love with it NEARLY as much as others seemed to. I was really hopeful Sunshine would be the one that finally made me GET Love Live. Buuuuuuuuuuut....... I'm so confused... I'm really trying, I promise. I have no interest in fandom wars of any kind, anymore. I WANT to enjoy Love Live. Maybe it's just a matter of needing to play the games to fill in the gaps of the show. But I just found myself very confused with the whole "School Idol" concept, even more so than I was with the original show. It's almost comical how much the show flip flops between success and failure.
From scene to scene, it can be "We can't start a school idol club becaus…
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Love Live Sunshine is an anime that has truly captured my heart and left me feeling happier than any other work I have ever experienced. The story follows a group of girls who come together to form a school idol group in order to save their beloved school from shutting down. Not only is the storyline incredibly heartwarming, but the music is absolutely wonderful.
The songs in Love Live Sunshine are truly a highlight of the show. Each one is beautifully composed and performed, and they perfectly capture the emotions of the characters and the themes of the show. From the upbeat and energetic "Aozora Jumping Heart" to the emotional and poignant "Mijuku Dreamer," every song is a joy to listen to and leaves me feeling uplifted.
But Love Live Sunshine is more than just great music. The charact…
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This is my favorite anime so I think I'll give it my first review. If you know about Love Live, you must know that Sunshine takes place after School Idol Project. While some people say you can actually watch it without SIP, I strongly recommend you to do so.
Story and plot, 09/10: To make it short, there's nine girls aiming to be school idols, seeking the path of µ's, the main objective does not start with saving the school, but with finding their own radiance instead. The downside I find with it is that it feels a bit rushed and it's a bit hard to follow the story at the same rhythm as the characters. Probably because it's hard to tell a story like this with so many main characters in just 13+13 episodes and the movie.
Worldbuilding, 10/10: It takes place in Numazu, a real place in Japa…
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This is a review for “Love Live Sunshine!!” season one and two and contains spoilers for the entire franchise.
Going into Love Live Sunshine without watching Love Live School Idol Project first isn't illegal, but you're doing yourself a disservice. Not only do they heavily reference SIP in sunshine, but they also purposely make thematic differences that only really are meaningful if you know what happened in the first one. This is shown literally in the first episode, as the plot for sunshine kinda just starts with Takami Chika deciding that her life is simply too boring and that she's too normal to which she refers to herself as a normal kaiju. Chika ends up stumbling upon an ad on a building for love live (the in universe idol competition) and the winners of the last one which was the m…
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So i knew this anime from Love Live! School Idol Festival. LLSIF is a mobile rhythm game that feature all character from Love Live. I decided to watch the anime because the story there is great, so after a few weeks playing it i'm interested to watch the anime. And boy oh boy, i'm surprised that the story is more complicated in the anime.
Story 10/10
Since Love Live! Sunshine!! is the first that i watched in this franchise, i can't compare it to Love Live! School Idol Project. Some people say the story is same like LLSIP. So in here i will review the story based on this anime alone and didn't take previous anime to compare. Well as a person who got here from the game, i'm really surprised. I didn't expect it to be like this, i thought it will be like other Cute Girls Doing Cute Thing anim…
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Spoiler-Lite Review:
This started and progressed way past my expectations for a idol/CGDCT type of show. The first episode was super well laid out and showed that it was going to be a lot different than its pseudo-predecessor and I really love that shift in tone, it added a lot of depth and sincerity the genre needed. Chika as a main character is a very self-aware and earnest main character and the rest of the group were very detailed and shaped in such a way as to give lots of similarities and parallels to other known characters in the series.
My favorite narrative tool they used was the "Fabled Legend" where you use the previous installment or story that had elements of uniqueness, as a pillar to hold the current story towards and contrast in specific ways. A lot of characters had diff…
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Basically just a slightly worse carbon copy of school idol project. Honestly not worth watching if you've seen school idol project, but as a stand-alone it isn't bad. It definitely made me realize I don't really want to watch any more shows in this universe, even though I liked school idol project a lot. The characters are extremely similar to School Idol project, and some of them even have the same one-note personality traits. If this one had a different premise or number of girls or personality of those said girls, I would have given this a higher score. In the end, however, its nothing more than a worse version of the original.
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Idol anime aren't really something I've seen too much of, even though I love watching musicals in general. The original Love Live was actually the first idol anime I have seen, so there isn't much of a reference for me on if this actually was any good or not, besides my personal enjoyment of things, so my rating for Sunshine comes mostly from that personal point of view on what makes the show enjoyable for me.
Story (7/10):
The story might be the biggest weakness of Sunshine. Too much of the time is about trying to follow the nine muses of the original and catch the shining light of them. Most of the time it's about trying the same things in a different setting and only near the end, they finally try to go their own way.
Art (8/10):
There isn't much negative to say about the look of Suns…
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This was honestly one of the most painful anime -no, TV show experiences I've ever had. Sunshine to me is just a much lazier copy of the first series, except with more forced emotional scenes.
That's really my only problem with Sunshine: the story and the "drama". The animation? Great. The Characters? Pretty good. The music? Bangers. Sunshine had all the elements it needed to be great - but it wasted them.
There was so much unnecessary drama. From episode 3 or so, it felt like somebody cried/sobbed/teared up at least once per episode. The third-year subplot is the worst offender here. All they did was cry about the past and their friendship and chasing their dreams and blah blah blah. It worked in the first Love Live series because we got to know those characters first before it decided t…
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After having a chunk of my soul firmly ripped out by the ending of the Love Live Movie, I heavily debated whether or not I would be able to bear the pain of knowing that the µ's we had come to know and love over these past 24 something episodes and a movie would no longer be the group we follow. After several hours on Reddit, I ultimately decided to continue, I haven't looked back since.
Story
Love Live Sunshine depicts a similar story in a different setting, with familiar aspects making returns while new ones arise. We start with a core trio in their second year of high school, with one of them having been inspired to become a School Idol, she quickly gathers her other friends and starts recruiting, along the way, the core trio helps the first years overcome their nervousness, while hel…
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[DISCLAIMER: This review is written on the assumption that you've already watched "Love Live! School Idol Project", "Love Live! School Idol Project 2nd Season" and "Love Live! The School Idol Movie"]
I was really let down by this one, I was expecting more from the continuation of Love Live.
The story feels like a carbon copy. The events are almost the same, with a few tweaks here and there. All the events that occurred with μ's, somehow came back to happen again in Love Live Sunshine. This made it extremely boring to re-watch what had already happened. They could've continued it with Honoka and Er's younger sisters. Maybe how they feel like they have to live up to μ's expectations or something like that.
The art is an improvement from Love Live. The 3D animation was a world of a differ…
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Love Live! Sunshine!! is a slice of life musical anime, about nine high school girls trying their hand at becoming school idols, competing with many other schools nationwide in Love Live! Inspired by their favorite and first school idol Love Live winners, μ's, they work hard to become this years best school idol group!
Love Live! Sunshine!! While is very similar to it's original Love Live! School Idol Project anime, still manages to be just as entertaining and charming in this spin-off. The nine girls are again, all lovable in their own way, overflowing with charm and quirkiness. The humor here is even more zany and witty, while still allowing each girl to have their own development and desires that set them apart. Myself personally while I love both School Idol Project's μ's group, and S…
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Reviews in 100 words or less:
This is meant to copy Love Live; I get that. What I don't get is why it's shoved in your face 5 times every episode. Chika's thought process for everything she does related to the idol group is "WWMD?" (What would muse do) and it ruins the show. I wanted to see some original story line, but I couldn't really find it. The characters get more equal amounts of screentime/development, which makes it harder to determine a best girl, which is a huge plus for me. Overall, the sequel is always worse than the original holds true here.
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Now I know that this is a pretty high review for an idol show. But this little show really changed a lot for me. My attitude, my opinion on certain things, and of course my music taste!
I've never watched many inspirational anime before, so this one was pretty new to me. The story of a bunch of girls trying to save their school seems like a pretty simple one. But this was a truly sweet show. It really helped me out in my personal life, as before I watched it I was a really dark person. But it quickly brought me out of all that negativity and gave me a more positive world to look at.
After watching this show, I knew I had found my favorite anime. I'll always look back fondly on some moments like when riko and yohane had to take care of a stray dog they found. Or the third years finally ma…
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Love Live is my all time favorite anime.
It's story was way more exciting than what I expected from an idol anime.
Next to the wonderful music, there's a game too!
The art is very interesting and pleasing to the eye.
The main character, Chika, is very similar to Honoka, bubbly yet her mood can be easily changed.
That's the only bad thing I can say about LL. This is a 10/10 in my eyes but i needed to look through a perspective where I coincided all the plot problems and what could have been changed.
All in all, amazing anime. Would recommend to newcomers
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Welcome to Robert's Too Late Reviews! We find ourselves once again in idol territory and what a good time it's been! As always we're working from the dubbed version (sorry guys, I don't dislike subs by any means, I just default out to dub if there's a version available) and this will be dealing with season 1 only. The quick of things is while Sunshine is slightly inferior to the original Love Live! (you never forget your first loves I guess) it's still more than worth your time to watch. Let's see how brightly we can all shine!
Note: instead of constantly referring to seasons, I'm going to break this down reference-wise to dealing with the idol group names. I'll refer to seasons 1 and 2 as Muse, this season as Aqours. Saves me some writing, you some reading, and hopefully keeps the confu…
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I didn't watch the original Love Live, I checked this out because someone recommended it for having cute girls with character depth. In short, it wasn't even worth watching. If you want a summary just watch any other generic cute girl show and imagine them saying "Zura" at the end of every fucking sentence. It was very slow moving, the characters were mostly pretty dull, and it was frequently annoying. The dance portions were somewhat well done, so I can recommend looking them up on youtube instead of bothering to watch the rest of the show. Since I didn't watch the original show, it was infuriating to hear them never shut up about the "Mu's". Why not try to make your show stand on its own? Definitely skip this show.
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I love Love Live!, in fact, I adore it. This alone is what brought me to the point of putting time into reviewing yet another Love Live! series and made me patient with its flaws as I enrolled into, at most, an alternative setting that does make a lot of remarks about the previous series and to be precise, from the character standpoint, μ's.
From a subjective standpoint, there's a lot of things I could say about Love Live! Sunshine! (and the whole series in general but let's keep it at this since this is aimed at first season of Sunshine anyway) which are nice and I could at least say that I am very emotionally engaged with it for the small amount of time I've been into it, since reviewing requires me to be as objective as possible, which I'll get to right now.
However, as much as I love…
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I like every single Love Live series, but I must admit that Love Live! Sunshine took a very large inspiration from the first Love Live! cast. I could probably write the characters they're most similar with :
Chika = Honoka
You = Kotori
Riko = Maki
Ruby = Hanayo
Hanamaru = Rin
Yoshiko = Nico
Dia = Eli
Kanan = Umi Mari = Nozomi
The characters seemed very forced to be like the first Love Live! cast which was very unfortunate because there is a lot of ideas of the girls to become unique from the first Love Live! cast.
The story was deffo a Love Live! part 2. Because both of the main plots are about their school closing down due to low student count except this one is more forced. It also doesn't make sense how a character in the series (Riko) was introduced and how she was able to get into…
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