Love Live! Nijigasaki Commemorates 1st Movie’s Upcoming Release With New Trailer


September 6 JST will see the premiere of the first Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Kanketsu-hen movie in Japanese theaters. To commemorate the upcoming release, a new trailer stuffed with idol performance footage has been released.

Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Kanketsu-hen will be a trilogy, with the first film having “Chapter 1” in its title. Chapter 1 sees the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club receiving an invitation to the Idol GPX (Grand Prix), leading to Ayumu, Kasumi, Shizuku, Kanata, Ema, and Lanzhu heading off to Okinawa. The Idol GPX’s participants’ compete as individuals, and the idea of battling against her friends causes Ayumu to have conflicted feelings.

Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club is one of the titles in the Love Live! multimedia franchise. Its starting cast was announced in 2017 as part of the now-defunct Love Live! School Idol Festival game’s PERFECT Dream Project anniversary project. Season 1 of the anime ran from October to December 2020, while the second season ran from April to June 2022. A sequel OVA was released in 2023. 

Crunchyroll describes the series as:

Nijigasaki High School is known for their diverse subjects and the freedom they give to students. Second-year student Yu Takasaki has been turned on to the charms of school idols, so she knocks on the door of the School Idol Club with her friend, Ayumu Uehara. Sometimes friends, sometimes rivals, the members of this club each contribute their own thoughts and motivations to the group.

The original voice of the character Setsuna Yuki, Tomori Kusunoki, left her role on March 31, 2023 JST due to medical reasons.

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Staff

• Director: Tomoyuki Kawamura (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
• Scriptwriter: Nii Tanaka (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club series composer)
• Character designer: Takumi Yokota (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
• Visual director: Kerorira (Bocchi the Rock! character designer)
• Design works: mebachi (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
• Animation production: Sunrise 

Cast

 Hinaki Yano as Yu Takasaki
• Aguri Oonishi as Ayumu Uehara
• Koko Hayashi as Setsuna Yuki
 Mayu Sagara as Kasumi Nakasu
 Kaori Maeda as Shizuku Osaka
• Miyu Kubota as Karin Asaka
 Natsumi Murakami as Ai Miyashita
 Akari Kito as Kanata Konoe
 Maria Sashide as Emma Verde
 Chiemi Tanaka as Rina Tennnouji
 Moeka Koizumi as Shioriko Mifune
• Shu Uchida as Mia Taylor
• Akina Homoto as Lanzhu Zhong


Source: Love Live! series YouTube channel





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