The Aqours crew are back for Love Live! Sunshine!! Season 2, as Chika and company continue the fight to save their beloved school, and also come to terms with what the impending end of the school year means for the future of their group as members Mari, Dia and Kanan prepare to graduate. Despite not […]
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Review: Love Live! Sunshine!! Complete Season 1 Limited Collector’s Edition (Blu-Ray)
Coming in on the heels of the two original Love Live! series and movie telling the tales of the girls of μ’s, this franchise is a legitimate phenomenon and Love Live! Sunshine!! had a hell of a legacy to live up to. After telling the story of a group Tokyo girls who made Akihabara their […]
Review: Love Live! The School Idol Movie (DVD)
After Love Live season 2 ended with the promise of more from μ’s, the Love Live movie throws us straight back into the world of Otonokizaka Academy and the nine girls we’ve come to know and love for a final send-off. The first thing you’ll notice almost immediately is a big increase in the production […]
Review: Love Live! School Idol Project Season 2 (DVD)
Love Live! season two pick up shortly after the end of season one, and as a result I’m going to have to dish some season one spoilers in this review – ye be fairly warned! Eli has stepped down from the position of student council president, and Honoka has taken up the role with Umi and […]
The Figma you Nico-Nico Need
Rounding out the nine members of μ’s in figma form, Nico Yazawa is finally up for order. Admit it, no matter what anyone says we all love Nico, and this figure is looking great. From the Good Smile product page: Nico Nico Nii as a figma! From the anime series ‘LoveLive!’ comes a figma of the Idol Research […]
When it Comes to Love Live Figures, April is Hanayo Month
It’s all about Love Live!’s Hanayo Koizumi this month, with three separate manufacturers putting new figures of everyone’s favorite white rice-obsessed School idol up for preorder! FREEing’s offering is a lovely 1/8 scale (195mm) Hanayo in her school uniform, and it appears she can be displayed with glasses on or off. I think this one […]
Review: Love Live! School Idol Project Season 1 Collectors Edition (DVD)
For all my weeaboo tendencies, the one thing that I never really understood was the whole J-Pop Idol scene. So when things like Love Live! and Idolm@ster burst on to the scene in the last few years and started making big waves I was suitably confused. What was the appeal? Why is this idol anime stuff such […]