The second season of Love Live! Superstar!!
As you can see written is the second season of Love Live! Superstar.
Let's pick up where we left off, Liella lost the Tokyo finals to participate in the finals of love live! And the anime opens with this incipit.
We can divide this season into 3 mini strings: Liella Formation, Love Live Arc, and Post Love Live Arc.
Let's talk about the formation of liellas; I really appreciated that this season focused much more on the novellines of the Liella group.
We will talk later about the various characters, but with 6 episodes of introduction to the new members, also going to understand their problems, we have the complete Liella that are finally 9.
Love Liev arc: Do you remember that Keke would have returned to Shanghai if she hadn't won the live love? well after we will talk about the best episode of the series, but having said that in the Liella a big problem aprte of the newbies has arisen: the skill gap, or the level of the liella in dancing, dancing and singing was a huge gap for the newbies, but fortunately Kanon manages to overcome this problem. And here we come to discover the new rival of Liella: Margharete-chan.
That surprisingly manages to beat the SunnyPassion and will have to clash for the selection finals in Tokyo with the Liella. After declaring war on him, Margharete loses and wins the second post, thus leaving the winning liella who will finally be able to get on stage at the finals of Love Live. We then learn about the backstories of margharete that we will talk about later.
Here we are at the finals: the liella give everything for everything, managing to win, thus completing their dream.
Post Love Live arc: We learn that kanon would like to go to Vienna to enroll in the prestigious music school, but the trip is suddenly canceled and margharete shows up at the door of the Yuigaoka.... What does the future hold?
well now let's talk about two argomeni: The first is the fact that this season has deepened the novellines, analyzing them carefully and not neglecting anything for the initial 6 episodes, which I loved but let's talk about the peak of Love live superstar 2 or episode 9: For Victory.
It was the episode in which Keke and sumire finally talk without filters about the future of keke, about how much one cares about the other in a beautiful way. The atmosphere, the words used, the music, the colors as this scene was rendered was a truly fantastic choice of direction, not to mention Keke who finally admits to love Sumire making her burst into tears, truly a wonderful episode.
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CHARACTERS 9/10
I'm going to talk about both the first and second seasons.
Shibuya Kanon: In this season compared to the previous one she has matured a lot not only as a Leader, but also as a person, finally managing to make her voice and her songs heard by everyone, as she wanted.
Keke Tang: She has never given up, she has always relied on Kanon, not to mention Sumire that once the relationships are reconciled you see that their bond has become stronger.
Sumire Heanna: In this season in the few episodes she managed to shine, to tear the scene for a moment, but she has also matured, because she no longer uses the excuse of showbusinnes in liella.
Ren Hazuki: In this season he found a new passion: video games, even if he was half addicted I enjoyed that episode, in this season it was a bit like a guide to the liella compared to the last one.
Chisato Arashi: Here we finally see her Glow-up, finally she manages to look into the kanon eyes telling him what he wants for her, not to mention the hair at the finals of the love live, here you really notice the change in chii-chan's will, finally she too has matured.
Kinako Sakurakouji: Starting as Kanon, or who did not know what the school idols were, she was fascinated and tried to join the liella, despite knowing the difference in levels, Kinako never gave up.
Mei Yoneme: She has always followed Liella as a fan, but she has never had the courage to join them, with her doing a bit of tom-boy is her strong point, which thanks to Shiki's push, and realizing that not only is she pretty but has the qualities to be an idol school also mei joins the group.
Shiki Wakana: Mei's counterpart, since middle school have always been together, a bit mild but by joining the Liella she managed to push Mei to join, even shiki managed to understand that she too can shine as a school idol and is also cute.
Natsumi Onitsuka: Entered the liella with the excuse a bit like Sumire: or money. Realizing that she has never had a dream to pursue, they invite her to be an idol school to pursue the dream of love live, to achieve something concrete.
Wien Marugarete: Wien is a cold-blooded, passionate and stoic girl, and doesn't seem to express much emotion, but can act recklessly or overdramatically when fussy. She's strongly confident in her abilities and talents, always delivering powerful performances, and never wanting to be compared to other idols, especially Kanon. She takes her aspirations very seriously, and isn't afraid to affront others she deems lower than her level.
After discovering that having been beaten by the liellas, she no longer has the chance to realize her dream, she is a bit stunned and I imagine that she will join the liella in season 3
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Let's talk about ALL Insert, Op and Ed included:
"WE WILL!!" by Liella! 9/10
"Oikakeru Yume no Saki de" by Liella 8/10
"Butterfly Wing" by Yuina (ep 3) 8/10
"Chance Day, Chance Way!" by Liella! (ep 8) 8.5/10
"Edelstein" (エーデルシュタイン) by Yuina (ep 10) 8/10
"Go!! Restart" (Go!! りスタート) by Sayuri Date, Nako Misaki, Nagisa Aoyama, Liyuu, Naomi Payton, Nozomi Suzuhara (ep 3) 8/10
"Mirai no Oto ga Kikoeru" (未来の音が聴こえる) by Sayuri Date, Liyuu, Nako Misaki, Naomi Payton, Nagisa Aoyama, Nozomi Suzuhara, Akane Yabushima, Wakana Ōkuma, Aya Emori (ep 12) 7.5/10
"Sing! Shine! Smile!" by Liella! (ep 10) 8.5/10
"Vitamin SUMMER" (ビタミンSUMMER) by Sayuri Date, Liyuu, Nako Misaki, Naomi Payton, Nagisa Aoyama, Nozomi Suzuhara, Akane Yabushima, Wakana Ōkuma, Aya Emori (ep 6) 10/10
"Welcome to Bokura no Sekai" (Welcome to 僕らのセカイ) by Liella! (ep 1) 7.5/10
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PERSONAL OPINIONS:
What do I expect from Season 3? I honestly don't know why it was much more likely a final film, but I expect that they will solve the issue of marugarete, and the question of keke once and for all, for the rest I would not really know what will happen.
Honestly with this season I re-evaluated the Liella! I enjoyed every single episode, loving each of them.