Introduction
As the Love Live! Competition draws to a close, Kanon Shibuya takes an offer to study abroad and bids farewell to her friends and fellow members of the school idol group Liella!. Although they will live on opposite sides of the world, both Kanon and the group remain motivated to continue their idol activities.
Unbeknownst to Kanon, however, her plans are cut short by Wien Margarete's parents, who request that Kanon remain in Japan for another year so that their daughter can learn from her. While Kanon finds herself in awkward limbo, Wien cannot bring herself to join her once fierce rival Liella! and decides to start a group of her own.
Not wanting Wien's determination to go to waste, Kanon joins the new group, recruiting her former group member's sister Tomari Onitsuka in the process. As the newfound unit strives to wash off Wien's controversial past, the new Liella! is also wrestling with the struggles of losing their irreplaceable center.
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Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
MelodyOfMemory
This feels like a post-script season. It's better than the disastrous 2nd season, and it has some good moments that give meaningful development to some characters, but it otherwise feels episodic and aimless. The callbacks to the first season only reinforce how much the entire Superstar subseries is carried by its first 12 episodes. Without that lingering nostalgia or the Love Live name, there would be little reason to watch this.
Chisato, Keke, and Natsumi benefit the most from this season. Episode 3 serves as a nice climax for Chisato's story. She's always been an understated presence as Kanon's number two, but her assertiveness and independent thinking makes her one of the show's best and most memorable characters (with her scenes in the last two episodes of Season 2 being one of its f…
Read at the sourceFirechick12012
Oh, Love Live Superstar, how far you've fallen. As someone who's not normally into Love Live, the first two seasons of it at least, I actually enjoyed both Nijigasaki and Superstar. The first season of Superstar was a nice, refreshing, adorable little schoolgirl series, even if it made the mistake of retreading old ground the original series and Sunshine already tackled, and actually managed its cast of characters quite well. The second season was a little weaker and didn't have as much of a handle on its new characters as it would have liked, but I still enjoyed it. Unfortunately, the third and final season should have ended this iteration with a bang, but instead ended it with little more than a pathetic whimper. Superstar deserved so much better than this, and the problems season two ha…
Read at the sourcelycoping
This review will assume you've watched season 1 and 2, and there may be spoilers for those series. But I consider that acceptable, because it's probably not a great idea to jump in on season 3, particularly with *this* anime. Watch those first.
I'll wait.
Gosukomushi... Gosukomushi.. hey, wait. Sumire! Put down that rope! And that palm frond!
Okay, here we go!
Wien Margarete might be the most interesting character in the whole "Love! Live" franchise, and might be one of my favorites in all of anime.
In season 2, Wien (Margarete? I guess there's some discussion/debate/otakufights (which consist of smacking each other with waifu catgirl tails) on that, but I maintain Wien is her LAST name) was a secondary character, who ended up being the "Big Bad" towards the end of the season. She end…
Read at the sourceFireflyerz
The third season of Love Live! Superstar!! has come to an end, and I must say it far exceeded my initial expectations, which were very low. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much, but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. I thoroughly enjoyed this season, to the point where it felt as if the second season never happened. This is ironic because the second season struggled a lot due to introducing so many characters in such a short time, whereas this time, despite following a similar approach, they managed to make it work brilliantly.
One thing I deeply appreciated was the meaningful interactions between the characters. These relationships felt natural and showed real development, even though Sumire was somewhat sidelined this season. Each subplot was resolved within the same episode, but the…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
Superstar season 3 is an amazing conclusion to the beautiful journey we’ve been on with the original cast for the past few years now. It’s the best, story, performances and production-wise of any love live season. A must watch for any idol fan!
I don’t know if Sunrise brought more budget or just had more people working on this season, but Superstar Season 3 feels like a massive improvement in every way over previous seasons. Every episode was gorgeous and had an engaging narrative. It’s Love Live at the end of the day, so the focal point here is the performances, music and the girls just being wholesome. All of those requirements were well met. I thought all of the girls’ mini arcs were fun, the little Liella civil war arc was great and seeing the girls kind of find their own paths as we…
Read at the sourceZNoteTaku
On some level, I have always been able to enjoy *Love Live!* as the crude otaku capitalistic black hole that it is. The franchise has never been one to have grand aspiring messages aside from what could be easily commodified in cute mannerisms, bubblegum song-and-dance routines, and wisped happy feelings that come from a “follow your dreams” narrative structure. No matter what my overall thoughts on the previous seasons were (and they vary widely), every installment at least had something within it that either attracted me in terms of its visuals, its music, its direction, its camaraderie, or whatever it could claim as unique and interesting, even if just at the conceptual level. The original *School Idol Project* was the point when the franchise had not quite yet determined what did or di…
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