Title: Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai / Love Live! Mijigasaki High School Idol Club
Length: 13 x 24 minute episodes
Genre: Music, comedy, drama, romance
Year of release: 2020

I’ve yet to write a review of other parts of the Love Live! franchise, but let’s get it out of the way quickly. The first two seasons of School Idol Project, following μ’s (pronounced Muse), was a mess – a punchy one, mind you, with fantastic comic scenes, strong music and memorable (if highly gimmicky) characters. Put all that together and you’ve got one of anime’s modern ‘cult classics’, with problems that even fans would point to (dodgy CGI performance sequences and overdramatic melodrama, to name the most common), but strong enough at its tenets (cast, musicality, comedy) that it easily gained a following. Sunshine, the first spinoff following the Aquors unit, was both a…