Love Live! School Idol Project Discussion Thread

[HitokiriShadow]

Umi continues to provide lots of entertaining faces.

And then.... no one shows up for their performance. Uh, okay. That seemed to be stretching things a bit. Not a bit deal, but a bit on the forced side. A little hard to believe that absolutely NOBODY except the three classmates that offered their support and the future idols showed up. You'd think at least a few people would show up out of curiosity or because they were bored and had nothing better to do (there's always some people in the "going home" club, right?).

But its a minor misstep at most. It still worked. When Honoka starts to break down on stage, your heart just breaks for her.

And then all of the future idols show up one by one. Er, mostly (since Rin and Hanayo came together). Nico sneaking in was one of the highlights of the episode. Here's hoping she actually does something next time!

[HitokiriShadow]

Originally Posted by William K

Umi is what you get when you combine Mio and Chihaya :D

I love your avatar.

[William K]

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

I love your avatar.

Thanks. Plenty of Umi choices from Ep 2 alone

[William K]

Man, Start:Dash is a good song and the animation was very well done. Kotori's voice is a bit too squeaky during her solos, but the three of them harmonize nicely in the chorus.

[TheGreenMan]

In this episode, we get Umi doing best Mio impression. Umio! That's your name from now on.
Megane-chan really, really, really wants to join, but seems to be a bigger wuss than than Umio.
And of course, the girls get an empty auditorium...but the future girls of the group show up.
I hope megane-chan joins next time.

[FUNiOP]

Well as depressing as it is, at least they went for some amount of realism with nobody showing up for the show. Of course, their actual performance was unrealistically amazing, but it was very nice to watch, so I can't complain. It was nice to see a few people show up over the course of the song, but they better get more than that in the future, considering the entirety of the audience this time is apparently going to be the rest of the group, and that would leave them with no audience. Obviously they're going to have to keep giving it their all as much as possible to make sure that's not the case, though. Seeing how they get all these girls to join should be fun.

Also, I liked how pressing the play button went into the OP.

[Damius]

Well, that was actually really good except for the CG... The CG was annoying.

[HitokiriShadow]

Very cute episode. Lots of Hanayo being very, very cute. And building a harem. Anyway, she's cute in general, has a very cute voice and is pretty darn good at pronouncing English. She made a good viewpoint character and played a pretty significant role in bringing Rin and Maki into the group.

Maki and Rin fighting over who would bring Hanayo to the idol trio was hilarious.

And Nico is apparently a stalker. Who is now shit-talking them on message boards. Next time is clearly focusing on her, and it will surely be amazing.

Nico is also apparently a 3rd year, as Fencedude noticed, which is surprising because she sure looks like a freshman. Kinda makes sense though, because that means there will be an even balance of three girls from each year in the group. Rin, Maki and Hanayo for first years, Honoka, Umi and Kotori for second years and Nico, Nozomi, Eila for third years.

Also, look forward to the hit new single "My Boyfriend is an Alpaca" by Minami Kotori later this year!

[FUNiOP]

I'm pretty fond of Hanayo's character. I can definitely understand being passionate about something and wanting to be a part of it, but being too shy and insecure about the potential detriment you might have to build up the courage needed. Fortunately, Hanayo has what anyone in that situation deserves, some much less introverted people who are willing to help out.

I like Maki for a lot of reasons, with how talented and together she is, but also how she does her best to help Hanayo, even though she doesn't want it to seem that way. Some of what she says to try to put on this front is a bit more harsh than I wish Hanayo had to hear, but at least Hanayo knows what Maki's really thinking, so it all works out.

Rin is very fun and a great support for Hanayo, but I hope she gets some more significant development for her own character in the future.

Well that takes care of three more. We're making pretty good headway. Next time they'll have to change Nico's mind and get her on-board. I guess if they can do that in one episode then the student council girls in the next, they'll have the full group ready to work toward the greater goal by episode 6.

[DenpaWa]

Only partly into episode 2 but I wanted to take a break to say that the Vice President is great. She's like the mature imouto to the President's onee-chan.