#love live nijigasaki high school idol club
Thoughts about LL Nijigasaki S2 EP.2
I’m just going to be upfront and say I was not expecting to love this episode as much as I did! First off, the op is visually speaking my second favorite love live op but song wise…its giving last place. Once again, I said this with start true dreams and a year later I love the song a lot…why am I like this… ALSO, as a Shioriko fan I spotted Kaoruko immediately and I starting freaking out. They probably aren’t gonna water down Shioriko’s character arc in the anime! Also funny that the op outfits are winter-based even though the show is airing in spring.
Onto the actual episode, I adore the focus on Emma and specifically QU4RTZ’s group dynamic. The Emma and Lanzhu parallels had a lot of potential in the games but they never actually explored it that much, but I love the way they tackled it in the anime! QU4RTZ as an individual group is underrated imo, the interactions between the four of them is so sweet and genuinely makes me soft,,, Once again thank you anime writers for not villainzing Lanzhu and also not making the cast villainize her either. Also the scene with the girls at the playground with the shot of Rina going down the slide and hugging Emma quite literally made me . And then them eventually synchronizing on the swings as their feelings become one? Peak cinema. I enjoyed the background stuff with Mia and Shioriko too. They’re setting up Mia pretty well with her interactions with Yuu. Also seeing Ayumu and Shioriko talk and refer to each other on a last name basis…they don’t know that they’re going to be gfs soon.
This episode solidified the approach to insert songs is through the sub-units, and if the op helps foreshadow anything than I imagine the order of songs is QU4RTZ->DiverDiva->AZUNA. I can’t really guess whether Mia or Shioriko will perform first, but I am leaning towards Mia going first because Kaoruko might have something to do with the idol festival and cultural festival for a climax. This sounds bad but I prefer this episode over 12/13 episodes in the first season because it reminded of the aspects of love live that I adore, which is group dynamics! Can’t wait to see QU4RTZ perform next week since they’re my favorite nijigaku sub-unit.
Rating: S(Favorite)
omg i was rewatching the pv at the start of today’s episode and i just noticed everyone’s powers are based off of their solo songs in season 1????
Happy Nijigaku S2 Day
Thoughts about LL Nijigasaki S2 EP.1
So nijigaku’s second season premiered today with its first episode and I thought it was a nice opener. The highlight of the episode was the PVs, both the real one and the accidental one, as both were fun to watch. I think there was some nice foreshadowing over Yuu’s ability to balance both club work and course work. Out of the three newly introduced girls in the anime, obviously Lanzhu was at the center of this episode. The Shioriko fan in me wanted more from her, but I’ll settle with what was given. Mia was kinda in the background of this episode but the same thing happened in the games so it’s not a problem. I am very happy to see that the show didn’t really villainize Lanzhu like they did in the games, but made her slightly antagonistic instead. Lanzhu’s song wasn’t my cup of tea and visually speaking save for the chorus part wasn’t entirely the best imo but I feel like that complaint is just a small one I have.
My biggest concern of this season is how they’ll handle insert songs given the cast of 12 idols in a show with (probably) 13 episodes. Notably, I was suprised to see two N girls at the end and the next episode title was announced by Emma+Kanata. So maybe they might do duo episodes outside of the three new girls? I don’t really know. The ending song visually speaking was very pretty, but song wise…eh. But, I didn’t like Neo Sky Neo Map when I first saw the first season but a couple of months later after the show finished it became my favorite Nijigasaki song so…I’m gonna just let this new one settle in. I am looking forward to the opening next week though since we’ll likely see everyone animated in 3D!
Rating: B(Good)
me @ anime shioriko
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Thoughts about LL Nijigasaki S2 EP.3
The season continues to be great and this episode was amazing! This episode followed up with a continuation of the start to QU4RTZ’s dynamics seen in last episode and focuses on the group’s formation/connection instead. While I always liked the QU4RTZ dynamic prior to the anime, I appreciate a lot of the things done to make the unit feel like a team like them doing a training camp together filled with plenty of group interactions. Their song was pretty good and continues to remind me that they are the best subunit in nijigaku. If the anime continues with the remaining subunits following a similar type of style to QU4RTZ’s, it works out perfectly for me because I literally have never seen any visible group dynamic in AZUNA and they lowkey feel like leftovers among the nijigaku units. It seems I was also right about the order of subunits since Diverdiva is next.
I must admit, I am a bit confused with how they’ll do Mia and Shioriko’s performances since ep.2-7 will likely be filled with subunit shenanigans…and…honestly I don’t like that at all. I want the 3 new girls to feel like they are apart of the club rather than specific relationships with some of the members and have episodes in the team so I am on my knees begging that Mia debuts after Diverdiva becomes a thing. Small comment I have about Yuu is that I admittedly hate the concept of her, but I don’t hate her or even dislike her as a character…but she’s tied for last place among the main characters in the franchise. Nonetheless, I actually like that they are giving her…more character if that makes sense? I feel like she’s her own person and not a blank-slate protagonist. Shioriko didn’t get much scenes but that’s to be expected since the cultural and idol festival is something going on in the background as of right now…I must be patient for her. Looking forward to next week since I love Karin and Ai’s dynamic and plus we’ll be seeing Misato too!
Rating: A(Amazing)
Kaoruko in the glasses deserved its own post
i’m sorry for this
4-Koma vs Anime Sasuke
Ayumu’s contact picture on Yu’s phone looks like it’s from Muteki-kyuu*believer, and the ringtone was Yume e no Ippo!
Ack! My heart…! Karin and Ai are just so cuuute!
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