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* PreemptiveShipping: The pairing of Nico and Maki had gained massive popularity prior to the anime's premiere, to where it dwarfed the other popular pairings on the likes of Pixiv. This has led to shippers being surprised by their lack of interaction in the first season, which would then lead to season 2 having them interact more as a response, which, combined with supplementary materials providing plenty of fuel for the ship, led to the ship growing even more popular as a result.
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* AnimeFirst:
** Zigzagged. Most ''Love Live!'' series don't start out as anime but generally release in the form of magazine profiles and music videos first, which provide templates for the anime release. The keyword is "templates", however; the anime is not explicitly based on pre-anime material in terms of story, which pre-anime material lacks, and the anime have liberal creative freedom with the characters and relationships, so every series may as well be anime first.
** Played straight with ''Superstar!!'', as it was made clear that the series was designed with a planned anime in mind, so both the characters' initial profiles and the ''Hajimari wa Kimi no Sora'' MV are consistent with their portrayals in the anime, unlike ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!''.
** Defied with the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga, which released before their respective anime but do not adapt the anime at all, instead being original stories just like the anime but with AlternateContinuity.
** Averted with ''Nijigasaki High School Idol Club'', which is TheAnimeOfTheGame but with heavy AdaptationDeviation.
* CashCowFranchise: The franchise had a very humble start in 2010 (its first single, "Bokura no LIVE, Kimi to no LIFE", sold only 434 copies) but has since expanded into various other media such as anime series, books, manga, mobile games, music albums, and even concerts. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' was released in Japan that the series really took off; the first Blu-Ray volume of the second season of ''School Idol Project'' sold over ''90,000 copies'' in its first week, the highest of any anime at the time. The franchise continues to remain one of Oricon's highest grossing multimedia franchises in the country to this day, with spikes in sales generally coinciding with the release of a new anime.
** Zigzagged. Most ''Love Live!'' series don't start out as anime but generally release in the form of magazine profiles and music videos first, which provide templates for the anime release. The keyword is "templates", however; the anime is not explicitly based on pre-anime material in terms of story, which pre-anime material lacks, and the anime have liberal creative freedom with the characters and relationships, so every series may as well be anime first.
** Played straight with ''Superstar!!'', as it was made clear that the series was designed with a planned anime in mind, so both the characters' initial profiles and the ''Hajimari wa Kimi no Sora'' MV are consistent with their portrayals in the anime, unlike ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!''.
** Defied with the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga, which released before their respective anime but do not adapt the anime at all, instead being original stories just like the anime but with AlternateContinuity.
** Averted with ''Nijigasaki High School Idol Club'', which is TheAnimeOfTheGame but with heavy AdaptationDeviation.
* CashCowFranchise: The franchise had a very humble start in 2010 (its first single, "Bokura no LIVE, Kimi to no LIFE", sold only 434 copies) but has since expanded into various other media such as anime series, books, manga, mobile games, music albums, and even concerts. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' was released in Japan that the series really took off; the first Blu-Ray volume of the second season of ''School Idol Project'' sold over ''90,000 copies'' in its first week, the highest of any anime at the time. The franchise continues to remain one of Oricon's highest grossing multimedia franchises in the country to this day, with spikes in sales generally coinciding with the release of a new anime.
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* FollowTheLeader: While {{Creator/Bushiroad}} has a stake in the franchise via the video games, they seem to have taken to attempting to capitalize on the market with their own multimedia franchises with similar "high school girls doing music things" appeal, just with different gimmicks; ''Anime/BangDream'' is girls being in bands, ''Anime/ShoujoKagekiRevueStarlight'' is theater girls, and ''Franchise/D4DJ'' is girls being [=DJs=].
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
** The reason why the franchise is considered community driven is the ability of fans to submit and vote on different content of the franchise such as the group name, sub-unit names and its members, song centers, etc.
** Many doujin artists also submitted their stories for the Anthology manga collection.
* OvertookTheManga: Inverted; the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga are still officially "ongoing" despite their respective anime concluding years ago, with the latter [[ScheduleSlip infamously stuck]] at essentially the beginning of the story.
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
** The reason why the franchise is considered community driven is the ability of fans to submit and vote on different content of the franchise such as the group name, sub-unit names and its members, song centers, etc.
** Many doujin artists also submitted their stories for the Anthology manga collection.
* OvertookTheManga: Inverted; the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga are still officially "ongoing" despite their respective anime concluding years ago, with the latter [[ScheduleSlip infamously stuck]] at essentially the beginning of the story.
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* AdaptationDisplacement:
** Most people (especially in the west) don't know that the franchise originated from a series of music videos with short stories that accompanied them.
** The pre-Anime Manga adaptation (''School Idol Diary'' counts too) is also this in the Western fanbase. Unfortunately, several fans occasionally mistook them as doujins. (And again, not helped to the fact that Anthology manga (officially released manga with chapters contributed by doujin artists) exists as well.)
** For some fans the ''Nijigasaki'' anime matters more than the game it's based on, which leads to them being surprised when official media "suddenly" announces new characters and songs they've never heard of and have to defer to other fans for context. Some people are even surprised that the anime is even based on a video game, or that the game ''doesn't'' have an ExcusePlot.
* AllAnimationIsDisney: As mentioned in the AdaptationDisplacement above, this happens occasionally for ''Anime-only'' watchers, mistaking the '''official''' manga adaptations for doujins.
* AnimeFirst:
** Zigzagged. Most ''Love Live!'' series don't start out as anime but generally release in the form of magazine profiles and music videos first, which provide templates for the anime release. The keyword is "templates", however; the anime is not explicitly based on pre-anime material in terms of story, which pre-anime material lacks, and the anime have liberal creative freedom with the characters and relationships, so every series may as well be anime first.
** Played straight with ''Superstar!!'', as it was made clear that the series was designed with a planned anime in mind, so both the characters' initial profiles and the ''Hajimari wa Kimi no Sora'' MV are consistent with their portrayals in the anime, unlike ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!''.
** Defied with the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga, which released before their respective anime but do not adapt the anime at all, instead being original stories just like the anime but with AlternateContinuity.
** Averted with ''Nijigasaki High School Idol
* CashCowFranchise: The franchise had a very humble start in 2010 (its first single, "Bokura no LIVE, Kimi to no LIFE", sold only 434 copies) but has since expanded into various other media such as anime series, books, manga, mobile games, music albums, and
* DiscreditedMeme: A vocal subset of fans have become exhausted with every ChildhoodFriend character being subject to MemeticPsychopath and {{Netorare}} memes considering how frequent they've become since ''Sunshine!!'' due to the franchise [[OnceASeason repeatedly]] playing into the "main character develops a sudden interest in another girl" scenario.
* FandomLifeCycle: The franchise is quite well known in Japan, sitting at minimum a solid Stage 4. It's generally associated with the revitalization of the idol genre in anime, and during the peak of its popularity in the µ's era was almost big enough to be considered mainstream; even after the departure of µ's, Aqours and Nijigasaki maintain strong, dedicated and active fanbases. Outside of Japan, like most Japanese franchises, the franchise experiences considerably more limited exposure, roughly Stage 3 in scope. The fanbase is comparatively small but tight-knit, and it has enough exposure that many anime viewers are usually dimly aware of the series.
* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent than others.
* FollowTheLeader: While {{Creator/Bushiroad}} has a stake in the franchise via the video games, they seem to have taken to attempting to capitalize on the market with their own multimedia franchises with similar "high school girls doing music things" appeal, just with different gimmicks; ''Anime/BangDream'' is girls being in bands, ''Anime/ShoujoKagekiRevueStarlight'' is theater girls, and ''Franchise/D4DJ'' is girls being [=DJs=].
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
** The reason why the franchise is considered community driven is the ability of fans to submit and vote on different content of the franchise such as the group name, sub-unit names and its members, song centers, etc.
** Many doujin artists also submitted their stories for the Anthology manga collection.
* OvertookTheManga: Inverted; the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga are still officially "ongoing" despite their respective anime concluding years ago, with the latter [[ScheduleSlip infamously stuck]] at essentially the beginning of the story.
* SelfFanservice: All the girls qualify, but some notable examples:
** Nozomi and You are commonly depicted in fanart as being very physically attractive despite having fairly standardized body shapes relative to the rest of the cast.
** Downplayed with Kanan, who ''is'' considered physically attractive in-universe (by Dia, of all people) and is noted to be the most fit member in Aqours, thus giving her a shapely figure.
** Also downplayed by Karin, who is the only character in the franchise who plays MsFanservice completely straight, has her beauty and figure complemented on by various characters, and has numerous gigs as a fashion model.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls: While it revolves around cute, brightly-colored female characters working to achieve their dreams as school idols, the franchise is technically {{seinen}}, since its manga adaptations and supplementary materials are published in the seinen magazine ''Dengeki G's''. There still isn't a lot of {{fanservice}} in the various anime series aside from the obligatory {{Beach Episode}}s, and they've even aired on the Japanese Disney Channel (albeit with some minor censorship), which has led to preteen and teenage girls enjoying it as well.
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* WhatAnIdiot: In Episode 11 of Season 1, [[spoiler:Honoka trains so much that she starts have a cold. Umi tells her that she should rest so that she won't get sick, and Honoka agrees... only to give in due to the fact that their group might be below the rank requirement for the Love Live. It doesn't help that she was practicing at night ''in the rain''. This of course has the result of her getting a fever and putting the rest of the group at risk.]]
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* AdaptationDisplacement:
** Most people (especially in the west) don't know that the franchise originated from a series of music videos with short stories that accompanied them.
** The pre-Anime Manga adaptation (''School Idol Diary'' counts too) is also this in the Western fanbase. Unfortunately, several fans occasionally mistook them as doujins. (And again, not helped to the fact that Anthology manga (officially released manga with chapters contributed by doujin artists) exists as well.)
** For some fans the ''Nijigasaki'' anime matters more than the game it's based on, which leads to them being surprised when official media "suddenly" announces new characters and songs they've never heard of and have to defer to other fans for context. Some people are even surprised that the anime is even based on a video game, or that the game ''doesn't'' have an ExcusePlot.
* AllAnimationIsDisney: As mentioned in the AdaptationDisplacement above, this happens occasionally for ''Anime-only'' watchers, mistaking the '''official''' manga adaptations for doujins.
* AnimeFirst:
** Zigzagged. Most ''Love Live!'' series don't start out as anime but generally release in the form of magazine profiles and music videos first, which provide templates for the anime release. The keyword is "templates", however; the anime is not explicitly based on pre-anime material in terms of story, which pre-anime material lacks, and the anime have liberal creative freedom with the characters and relationships, so every series may as well be anime first.
** Played straight with ''Superstar!!'', as it was made clear that the series was designed with a planned anime in mind, so both the characters' initial profiles and the ''Hajimari wa Kimi no Sora'' MV are consistent with their portrayals in the anime, unlike ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!''.
** Defied with the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga, which released before their respective anime but do not adapt the anime at all, instead being original stories just like the anime but with AlternateContinuity.
** Averted with ''Nijigasaki High School Idol Club'', which is TheAnimeOfTheGame but with heavy AdaptationDeviation.
* CashCowFranchise: The franchise had a very humble start in 2010 (its first single, "Bokura no LIVE, Kimi to no LIFE", sold only 434 copies) but has since expanded into various other media such as anime series, books, manga, mobile games, music albums, and even concerts. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' was released in Japan that the series really took off; the first Blu-Ray volume of the second season of ''School Idol Project'' sold over ''90,000 copies'' in its first week, the highest of any anime at the time. The franchise continues to remain one of Oricon's highest grossing multimedia franchises in the country to this day, with spikes in sales generally coinciding with the release of a new anime.
* DiscreditedMeme: A vocal subset of fans have become exhausted with every ChildhoodFriend character being subject to MemeticPsychopath and {{Netorare}} memes considering how frequent they've become since ''Sunshine!!'' due to the franchise [[OnceASeason repeatedly]] playing into the "main character develops a sudden interest in another girl" scenario.
* FandomLifeCycle: The franchise is quite well known in Japan, sitting at minimum a solid Stage 4. It's generally associated with the revitalization of the idol genre in anime, and during the peak of its popularity in the µ's era was almost big enough to be considered mainstream; even after the departure of µ's, Aqours and Nijigasaki maintain strong, dedicated and active fanbases. Outside of Japan, like most Japanese franchises, the franchise experiences considerably more limited exposure, roughly Stage 3 in scope. The fanbase is comparatively small but tight-knit, and it has enough exposure that many anime viewers are usually dimly aware of the series.
* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent than others.
* FollowTheLeader: While {{Creator/Bushiroad}} has a stake in the franchise via the video games, they seem to have taken to attempting to capitalize on the market with their own multimedia franchises with similar "high school girls doing music things" appeal, just with different gimmicks; ''Anime/BangDream'' is girls being in bands, ''Anime/ShoujoKagekiRevueStarlight'' is theater girls, and ''Franchise/D4DJ'' is girls being [=DJs=].
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
** The reason why the franchise is considered community driven is the ability of fans to submit and vote on different content of the franchise such as the group name, sub-unit names and its members, song centers, etc.
** Many doujin artists also submitted their stories for the Anthology manga collection.
* OvertookTheManga: Inverted; the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga are still officially "ongoing" despite their respective anime concluding years ago, with the latter [[ScheduleSlip infamously stuck]] at essentially the beginning of the story.
* SelfFanservice: All the girls qualify, but some notable examples:
** Nozomi and You are commonly depicted in fanart as being very physically attractive despite having fairly standardized body shapes relative to the rest of the cast.
** Downplayed with Kanan, who ''is'' considered physically attractive in-universe (by Dia, of all people) and is noted to be the most fit member in Aqours, thus giving her a shapely figure.
** Also downplayed by Karin, who is the only character in the franchise who plays MsFanservice completely straight, has her beauty and figure complemented on by various characters, and has numerous gigs as a fashion model.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls: While it revolves around cute, brightly-colored female characters working to achieve their dreams as school idols, the franchise is technically {{seinen}}, since its manga adaptations and supplementary materials are published in ''Dengeki G's'' magazine, which is a seinen publication. There still isn't a lot of {{fanservice}} in the various anime series aside from the obligatory {{Beach Episode}}s, and they've even aired on the Japanese Disney Channel (albeit with some minor censorship), which has led to preteen and teenage girls enjoying it as well.
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** Also downplayed by Karin, who is the only character in the franchise who plays MsFanservice completely straight, has her beauty and figure complemented on by various characters, and has numerous gigs as a fashion model.
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** Also downplayed by Karin, who is the only character in the franchise who plays MsFanservice completely straight, has her beauty and figure complemented on by various characters, and has numerous gigs as a fashion model.model.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls: While it revolves around cute, brightly-colored female characters working to achieve their dreams as school idols, the franchise is technically {{seinen}}, since its manga adaptations and supplementary materials are published in ''Dengeki G's'' magazine, which is a seinen publication. There still isn't a lot of {{fanservice}} in the various anime series aside from the obligatory {{Beach Episode}}s, and they've even aired on the Japanese Disney Channel (albeit with some minor censorship), which has led to preteen and teenage girls enjoying it as well.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls: While it revolves around cute, brightly-colored female characters working to achieve their dreams as school idols, the franchise is technically {{seinen}}, since its manga adaptations and supplementary materials are published in ''Dengeki G's'' magazine, which is a seinen publication. There still isn't a lot of {{fanservice}} in the various anime series aside from the obligatory {{Beach Episode}}s, and they've even aired on the Japanese Disney Channel (albeit with some minor censorship), which has led to preteen and teenage girls enjoying it as well.
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* FanNickname:
** Occidental Love Live fans (and School Idol Festival players) often call Honoka "Honkers" (or derivatives thereof, such as Honker, Honk, and/or Honky).
** The same fans sometimes refer to Nozomi as "Nozomom" or "Nozomommy", due to her TeamMom demeanor. She's also been called "Nozoomy" after the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTs7SQIB0I "nozoomy's very smol adventure"]] meme.
** Japanese fans often give Kotori a sort of fan-symbol of (・8・); it's meant to be a bird's face, since "Kotori" means "little bird". Creator/AyaUchida, who voices Kotori, is also fond of the emoticon and has been seen using it on Twitter and in blog posts. Outside of Japan, she's often called "Birb", "Burd" or "Burd Waifu".
** The voice actresses have their own nicknames, too:
*** Creator/EmiNitta (Emitsun)
*** Creator/YoshinoNanjo ([=NanjoIno=])
*** Creator/AyaUchida (Ucchi)
*** Creator/SuzukoMimori (Mimorin)
*** Riho Iida (Rippi)
*** Pile (Pai-chan)
*** Aina Kusuda (Kussun)
*** Creator/YurikaKubo (Shikaco)
*** Creator/SoraTokui (Soramaru)
** Since the final µ's live concert was held on March 31 and April 1, 2016, expect their fans to refer to the first of April as not "April Fools' Day", but rather "April Feels Day".
** The trio of Honoka, Rin and Nico [[note]]In the manga, the trio is composed of Honoka, '''Eli''' and Nico instead[[/note]] is commonly referred to as the "San baka" (Three Idiots).
** "Hit or Miss Girl" for Nico Yazawa in a cheerleader outfit, thanks to [=NyanNyanCosplay=].
** Occidental Love Live fans (and School Idol Festival players) often call Honoka "Honkers" (or derivatives thereof, such as Honker, Honk, and/or Honky).
** The same fans sometimes refer to Nozomi as "Nozomom" or "Nozomommy", due to her TeamMom demeanor. She's also been called "Nozoomy" after the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTs7SQIB0I "nozoomy's very smol adventure"]] meme.
** Japanese fans often give Kotori a sort of fan-symbol of (・8・); it's meant to be a bird's face, since "Kotori" means "little bird". Creator/AyaUchida, who voices Kotori, is also fond of the emoticon and has been seen using it on Twitter and in blog posts. Outside of Japan, she's often called "Birb", "Burd" or "Burd Waifu".
** The voice actresses have their own nicknames, too:
*** Creator/EmiNitta (Emitsun)
*** Creator/YoshinoNanjo ([=NanjoIno=])
*** Creator/AyaUchida (Ucchi)
*** Creator/SuzukoMimori (Mimorin)
*** Riho Iida (Rippi)
*** Pile (Pai-chan)
*** Aina Kusuda (Kussun)
*** Creator/YurikaKubo (Shikaco)
*** Creator/SoraTokui (Soramaru)
** Since the final µ's live concert was held on March 31 and April 1, 2016, expect their fans to refer to the first of April as not "April Fools' Day", but rather "April Feels Day".
** The trio of Honoka, Rin and Nico [[note]]In the manga, the trio is composed of Honoka, '''Eli''' and Nico instead[[/note]] is commonly referred to as the "San baka" (Three Idiots).
** "Hit or Miss Girl" for Nico Yazawa in a cheerleader outfit, thanks to [=NyanNyanCosplay=].
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* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent than others.
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* AdaptationDisplacement:
** Most people (especially in the west) don't know that the franchise originated from a series of music videos with short stories that accompanied them.
** The pre-Anime Manga adaptation (''School Idol Diary'' counts too) is also this in the Western fanbase. Unfortunately, several fans occasionally mistook them as doujins. (And again, not helped to the fact that Anthology manga (officially released manga with chapters contributed by doujin artists) exists as well.)
** For some fans the ''Nijigasaki'' anime matters more than the game it's based on, which leads to them being surprised when official media "suddenly" announces new characters and songs they've never heard of and have to defer to other fans for context. Some people are even surprised that the anime is even based on a video game, or that the game ''doesn't'' have an ExcusePlot.
* AllAnimationIsDisney: As mentioned in the AdaptationDisplacement above, this happens occasionally for ''Anime-only'' watchers, mistaking the '''official''' manga adaptations for doujins.
* AnimeFirst:
** Zigzagged. Most ''Love Live!'' series don't start out as anime but generally release in the form of magazine profiles and music videos first, which provide templates for the anime release. The keyword is "templates", however; the anime is not explicitly based on pre-anime material in terms of story, which pre-anime material lacks, and the anime have liberal creative freedom with the characters and relationships, so every series may as well be anime first.
** Played straight with ''Superstar!!'', as it was made clear that the series was designed with a planned anime in mind, so both the characters' initial profiles and the ''Hajimari wa Kimi no Sora'' MV are consistent with their portrayals in the anime, unlike ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!''.
** Defied with the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga, which released before their respective anime but do not adapt the anime at all, instead being original stories just like the anime but with AlternateContinuity.
** Averted with ''Nijigasaki High School Idol Club'', which is TheAnimeOfTheGame but with heavy AdaptationDeviation.
* CashCowFranchise: The franchise had a very humble start in 2010 (its first single, "Bokura no LIVE, Kimi to no LIFE", sold only 434 copies) but has since expanded into various other media such as anime series, books, manga, mobile games, music albums, and even concerts. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' was released in Japan that the series really took off; the first Blu-Ray volume of the second season of ''School Idol Project'' sold over ''90,000 copies'' in its first week, the highest of any anime at the time. The franchise continues to remain one of Oricon's highest grossing multimedia franchises in the country to this day, with spikes in sales generally coinciding with the release of a new anime.
* DiscreditedMeme: A vocal subset of fans have become exhausted with every ChildhoodFriend character being subject to MemeticPsychopath and {{Netorare}} memes considering how frequent they've become since ''Sunshine!!'' due to the franchise [[OnceASeason repeatedly]] playing into the "main character develops a sudden interest in another girl" scenario.
* FandomLifeCycle: The franchise is quite well known in Japan, sitting at minimum a solid Stage 4. It's generally associated with the revitalization of the idol genre in anime, and during the peak of its popularity in the µ's era was almost big enough to be considered mainstream; even after the departure of µ's, Aqours and Nijigasaki maintain strong, dedicated and active fanbases. Outside of Japan, like most Japanese franchises, the franchise experiences considerably more limited exposure, roughly Stage 3 in scope. The fanbase is comparatively small but tight-knit, and it has enough exposure that many anime viewers are usually dimly aware of the series.
* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent thanothers.others.
* FollowTheLeader: While {{Creator/Bushiroad}} has a stake in the franchise via the video games, they seem to have taken to attempting to capitalize on the market with their own multimedia franchises with similar "high school girls doing music things" appeal, just with different gimmicks; ''Anime/BangDream'' is girls being in bands, ''Anime/ShoujoKagekiRevueStarlight'' is theater girls, and ''Franchise/D4DJ'' is girls being [=DJs=].
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
** The reason why the franchise is considered community driven is the ability of fans to submit and vote on different content of the franchise such as the group name, sub-unit names and its members, song centers, etc.
** Many doujin artists also submitted their stories for the Anthology manga collection.
* OvertookTheManga: Inverted; the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga are still officially "ongoing" despite their respective anime concluding years ago, with the latter [[ScheduleSlip infamously stuck]] at essentially the beginning of the story.
* SelfFanservice: All the girls qualify, but some notable examples:
** Nozomi and You are commonly depicted in fanart as being very physically attractive despite having fairly standardized body shapes relative to the rest of the cast.
** Downplayed with Kanan, who ''is'' considered physically attractive in-universe (by Dia, of all people) and is noted to be the most fit member in Aqours, thus giving her a shapely figure.
** Also downplayed by Karin, who is the only character in the franchise who plays MsFanservice completely straight, has her beauty and figure complemented on by various characters, and has numerous gigs as a fashion model.
** Most people (especially in the west) don't know that the franchise originated from a series of music videos with short stories that accompanied them.
** The pre-Anime Manga adaptation (''School Idol Diary'' counts too) is also this in the Western fanbase. Unfortunately, several fans occasionally mistook them as doujins. (And again, not helped to the fact that Anthology manga (officially released manga with chapters contributed by doujin artists) exists as well.)
** For some fans the ''Nijigasaki'' anime matters more than the game it's based on, which leads to them being surprised when official media "suddenly" announces new characters and songs they've never heard of and have to defer to other fans for context. Some people are even surprised that the anime is even based on a video game, or that the game ''doesn't'' have an ExcusePlot.
* AllAnimationIsDisney: As mentioned in the AdaptationDisplacement above, this happens occasionally for ''Anime-only'' watchers, mistaking the '''official''' manga adaptations for doujins.
* AnimeFirst:
** Zigzagged. Most ''Love Live!'' series don't start out as anime but generally release in the form of magazine profiles and music videos first, which provide templates for the anime release. The keyword is "templates", however; the anime is not explicitly based on pre-anime material in terms of story, which pre-anime material lacks, and the anime have liberal creative freedom with the characters and relationships, so every series may as well be anime first.
** Played straight with ''Superstar!!'', as it was made clear that the series was designed with a planned anime in mind, so both the characters' initial profiles and the ''Hajimari wa Kimi no Sora'' MV are consistent with their portrayals in the anime, unlike ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!''.
** Defied with the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga, which released before their respective anime but do not adapt the anime at all, instead being original stories just like the anime but with AlternateContinuity.
** Averted with ''Nijigasaki High School Idol Club'', which is TheAnimeOfTheGame but with heavy AdaptationDeviation.
* CashCowFranchise: The franchise had a very humble start in 2010 (its first single, "Bokura no LIVE, Kimi to no LIFE", sold only 434 copies) but has since expanded into various other media such as anime series, books, manga, mobile games, music albums, and even concerts. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' was released in Japan that the series really took off; the first Blu-Ray volume of the second season of ''School Idol Project'' sold over ''90,000 copies'' in its first week, the highest of any anime at the time. The franchise continues to remain one of Oricon's highest grossing multimedia franchises in the country to this day, with spikes in sales generally coinciding with the release of a new anime.
* DiscreditedMeme: A vocal subset of fans have become exhausted with every ChildhoodFriend character being subject to MemeticPsychopath and {{Netorare}} memes considering how frequent they've become since ''Sunshine!!'' due to the franchise [[OnceASeason repeatedly]] playing into the "main character develops a sudden interest in another girl" scenario.
* FandomLifeCycle: The franchise is quite well known in Japan, sitting at minimum a solid Stage 4. It's generally associated with the revitalization of the idol genre in anime, and during the peak of its popularity in the µ's era was almost big enough to be considered mainstream; even after the departure of µ's, Aqours and Nijigasaki maintain strong, dedicated and active fanbases. Outside of Japan, like most Japanese franchises, the franchise experiences considerably more limited exposure, roughly Stage 3 in scope. The fanbase is comparatively small but tight-knit, and it has enough exposure that many anime viewers are usually dimly aware of the series.
* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent than
* FollowTheLeader: While {{Creator/Bushiroad}} has a stake in the franchise via the video games, they seem to have taken to attempting to capitalize on the market with their own multimedia franchises with similar "high school girls doing music things" appeal, just with different gimmicks; ''Anime/BangDream'' is girls being in bands, ''Anime/ShoujoKagekiRevueStarlight'' is theater girls, and ''Franchise/D4DJ'' is girls being [=DJs=].
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
** The reason why the franchise is considered community driven is the ability of fans to submit and vote on different content of the franchise such as the group name, sub-unit names and its members, song centers, etc.
** Many doujin artists also submitted their stories for the Anthology manga collection.
* OvertookTheManga: Inverted; the ''School idol project'' and ''Sunshine!!'' manga are still officially "ongoing" despite their respective anime concluding years ago, with the latter [[ScheduleSlip infamously stuck]] at essentially the beginning of the story.
* SelfFanservice: All the girls qualify, but some notable examples:
** Nozomi and You are commonly depicted in fanart as being very physically attractive despite having fairly standardized body shapes relative to the rest of the cast.
** Downplayed with Kanan, who ''is'' considered physically attractive in-universe (by Dia, of all people) and is noted to be the most fit member in Aqours, thus giving her a shapely figure.
** Also downplayed by Karin, who is the only character in the franchise who plays MsFanservice completely straight, has her beauty and figure complemented on by various characters, and has numerous gigs as a fashion model.
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** Nozomi gets most of her popularity from the Western fanbase, despite her BaseBreakingCharacter status. This is because of her [[BuxomIsBetter attractive]] [[ZettaiRyouiki appearance]], her CoolBigSis traits, and her debatably having the most LesYay in the anime. There has been regrets with Western fans on how Nozomi gets treated in songs (Out of her three centers, one of them she doesn't have a solo in and another has never been performed live, and overall she gets the least amount of solos in the group) yet that hasn't been a major issue with Japanese fans, since they just don't like her singing voice. Her pairing between with Eli is also one of the most liked by many of the LGBTFanbase in both the Japanese and mainly the Western fandom.
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** Nozomi gets most of her popularity from the Western fanbase, despite her BaseBreakingCharacter status. This is because of her [[BuxomIsBetter attractive]] [[ZettaiRyouiki appearance]], appearance, her CoolBigSis traits, and her debatably having the most LesYay in the anime. There has been regrets with Western fans on how Nozomi gets treated in songs (Out of her three centers, one of them she doesn't have a solo in and another has never been performed live, and overall she gets the least amount of solos in the group) yet that hasn't been a major issue with Japanese fans, since they just don't like her singing voice. Her pairing between with Eli is also one of the most liked by many of the LGBTFanbase in both the Japanese and mainly the Western fandom.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: When Honoka initially comes across the name "μ's", she mistakes it for Muse, a Japanese soap brand. In the dub, this gag is changed to Honoka confusing the Greek letter "μ" with the English "u", and mistakenly pronounces it as "yooz".
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* {{Woolseyism}}: When Honoka initially comes across the name "μ's", she mistakes it for Muse, a Japanese soap brand. In the dub, this gag is changed to Honoka confusing the Greek letter "μ" with the English "u", and mistakenly pronounces it as "yooz"."yooz".
!!Love Live! Series (Franchise)
* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent than others.
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* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent than others.
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* FanNickname: The token comic relief character in every unit (Nico, Yoshiko, Kasumi, Sumire) is commonly referred to as the "gremlin" in Western circles. All of them share common traits; they are generally the quirkiest character in the unit, are prone to acting out whenever they feel like it, are almost never taken seriously by any of the other characters, and (with the exception of Yoshiko) have a bit of a bratty side to them, some more prominent than others.
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* GeniusBonus: Nozomi has a purple theme colour and speaks with a Kansai accent. The fastest Shinkansen train between Tokyo and Osaka is named Nozomi and its colours are purple on white (here is an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg/1920px-JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg image of the train]] at the time the series was developed). The reference might be intentional.
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* GeniusBonus: Nozomi has a purple theme colour and speaks with a Kanzai accent. The fastest Shinkansen train between Tokyo and Osaka is named Nozomi and its colours are purple on white (here is an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg/1920px-JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg image of the train]] at the time the series was developed). The reference might be intentional.
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* GeniusBonus: Nozomi has a purple theme colour and speaks with a Kanzai Kansai accent. The fastest Shinkansen train between Tokyo and Osaka is named Nozomi and its colours are purple on white (here is an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg/1920px-JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg image of the train]] at the time the series was developed). The reference might be intentional.
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** Eli has a certain following in Russia.
* GeniusBonus: Nozomi has a purple theme colour and speaks with a Kanzai accent. The fastest Shinkansen train between Tokyo and Osaka is named Nozomi and its colours are purple on white (here is an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg/1920px-JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg image of the train]] at the time the series was developed). The reference might be intentional.
* GeniusBonus: Nozomi has a purple theme colour and speaks with a Kanzai accent. The fastest Shinkansen train between Tokyo and Osaka is named Nozomi and its colours are purple on white (here is an [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg/1920px-JRC_N700_series_Z28.jpg image of the train]] at the time the series was developed). The reference might be intentional.
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* WinTheCrowd: As for [=NozoEli=] fans, the relationship between those two in the manga adaptation of ''School Idol Diary'' is pretty much praised, combined with the writer's wholesome afterword of supporting them. Whether that they're truly becoming an eventual lesbian couple is a completely different matter.
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** Make one mention about [[spoiler:µ's disbanding]] and their Final Live, and the fans will tearfully beg you to stop.
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* ActorShipping: Other than the characters seen in the anime, their [[HoYay voice actresses are also shipped]] by the fans (by ''both'' the [[YuriFan yuri fandom]] and sometimes the LGBTFanbase) as well, with the actresses even doing some teasing on most of their photoshoots.
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* ActorShipping: Other than the characters seen in the anime, their [[HoYay voice actresses are also shipped]] by the fans (by ''both'' the [[YuriFan yuri fandom]] and sometimes the LGBTFanbase) as well, with the actresses even doing some teasing on most of their photoshoots. And then there's Pile with her (assumed) boyfriend, Aya Uchida's decision of marrying a man, and later Mimori with Okada (with them finally married in April 12, 2019), which destroyed a number of LesYay ships like [=MimoUchi=] and [=MimoPai=].
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* LGBTFanbase: While the franchise is primarily aimed at a male audience, it's also gained a lot of lesbian and bisexual female fans, especially in the West, thanks to all the HoYay between the characters.
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* LGBTFanbase: While the franchise is primarily aimed at a male audience, it's also gained a lot of lesbian and bisexual female fans, especially in the West, thanks to all the HoYay between the characters.characters and the [[CostumePorn pretty outfits]] they wear in ''School Idol Festival''. The entire series is also one of the few Animes to gain a positive influence to the queer fanbase.
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* NoYay:
** Mentioning het shipping or even the very notion that the characters (yes, even animals like Alpacas) are anything but strictly lesbian (not counting Honoka's mother and any of µ's' moms like Kotori's or Maki's) is a major no-no. [[AmericansHateTingle This mainly applies in the West and in some Chinese-speaking countries, though.]]
*** Also, in a minor extent: if one realizes that they mentioned the word "Boy" in their LONELIEST BABY song...
** [[spoiler:''School Idol Diary'' reveals that Hanayo's mother used to be an idol (though she quit before her debut) before she was married to her husband, which made fans who like the lesbian pairings grow concerned that their favored characters would be straight in their future appearances.]]
** When it comes to [[ActorShipping Actress Shipping]]; Almost no one will see some voice actresses (Notably Creator/YoshinoNanjo and Aina Kusuda due to both [=NozoEli=]'s charisma and them wholesomely shipping with each other) being [[HeteronormativeCrusader heterosexual]]. And again, it barely helped that Mimori had a relationship with Okada.
** Make one mention about [[spoiler:µ's disbanding]] and their Final Live, and the fans will tearfully beg you to stop.
** Mentioning het shipping or even the very notion that the characters (yes, even animals like Alpacas) are anything but strictly lesbian (not counting Honoka's mother and any of µ's' moms like Kotori's or Maki's) is a major no-no. [[AmericansHateTingle This mainly applies in the West and in some Chinese-speaking countries, though.]]
*** Also, in a minor extent: if one realizes that they mentioned the word "Boy" in their LONELIEST BABY song...
** [[spoiler:''School Idol Diary'' reveals that Hanayo's mother used to be an idol (though she quit before her debut) before she was married to her husband, which made fans who like the lesbian pairings grow concerned that their favored characters would be straight in their future appearances.]]
** When it comes to [[ActorShipping Actress Shipping]]; Almost no one will see some voice actresses (Notably Creator/YoshinoNanjo and Aina Kusuda due to both [=NozoEli=]'s charisma and them wholesomely shipping with each other) being [[HeteronormativeCrusader heterosexual]]. And again, it barely helped that Mimori had a relationship with Okada.
** Make one mention about [[spoiler:µ's disbanding]] and their Final Live, and the fans will tearfully beg you to stop.
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* ActorShipping: Other than the characters seen in the anime, their [[HoYay voice actresses are also shipped]] by the fans (by ''both'' the [[YuriFan yuri fandom]] and sometimes the LGBTFanbase) as well, with the actresses even doing some teasing on most of their photoshoots. And then there's Pile with her (assumed) boyfriend, Aya Uchida's decision of marrying a man, and later Mimori with Okada (with them finally married in April 12, 2019), which destroyed a number of LesYay ships like [=MimoUchi=] and [=MimoPai=].
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* ActorShipping: Other than the characters seen in the anime, their [[HoYay voice actresses are also shipped]] by the fans (by ''both'' the [[YuriFan yuri fandom]] and sometimes the LGBTFanbase) as well, with the actresses even doing some teasing on most of their photoshoots. And then there's Pile with her (assumed) boyfriend, Aya Uchida's decision of marrying a man, and later Mimori with Okada (with them finally married in April 12, 2019), which destroyed a number of LesYay ships like [=MimoUchi=] and [=MimoPai=].
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* LGBTFanbase: While the franchise is primarily aimed at a male audience, it's also gained a lot of lesbian and bisexual female fans, especially in the West, thanks to all the HoYay between the characters and the [[CostumePorn pretty outfits]] they wear in ''School Idol Festival''. The entire series is also one of the few Animes to gain a positive influence to the queer fanbase.
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* LGBTFanbase: While the franchise is primarily aimed at a male audience, it's also gained a lot of lesbian and bisexual female fans, especially in the West, thanks to all the HoYay between the characters and the [[CostumePorn pretty outfits]] they wear in ''School Idol Festival''. The entire series is also one of the few Animes to gain a positive influence to the queer fanbase.characters.
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* NoYay:
** Mentioning het shipping or even the very notion that the characters (yes, even animals like Alpacas) are anything but strictly lesbian (not counting Honoka's mother and any of µ's' moms like Kotori's or Maki's) is a major no-no. [[AmericansHateTingle This mainly applies in the West and in some Chinese-speaking countries, though.]]
*** Also, in a minor extent: if one realizes that they mentioned the word "Boy" in their LONELIEST BABY song...
** [[spoiler:''School Idol Diary'' reveals that Hanayo's mother used to be an idol (though she quit before her debut) before she was married to her husband, which made fans who like the lesbian pairings grow concerned that their favored characters would be straight in their future appearances.]]
** When it comes to [[ActorShipping Actress Shipping]]; Almost no one will see some voice actresses (Notably Creator/YoshinoNanjo and Aina Kusuda due to both [=NozoEli=]'s charisma and them wholesomely shipping with each other) being [[HeteronormativeCrusader heterosexual]]. And again, it barely helped that Mimori had a relationship with Okada.
** Make one mention about [[spoiler:µ's disbanding]] and their Final Live, and the fans will tearfully beg you to stop.
** Mentioning het shipping or even the very notion that the characters (yes, even animals like Alpacas) are anything but strictly lesbian (not counting Honoka's mother and any of µ's' moms like Kotori's or Maki's) is a major no-no. [[AmericansHateTingle This mainly applies in the West and in some Chinese-speaking countries, though.]]
*** Also, in a minor extent: if one realizes that they mentioned the word "Boy" in their LONELIEST BABY song...
** [[spoiler:''School Idol Diary'' reveals that Hanayo's mother used to be an idol (though she quit before her debut) before she was married to her husband, which made fans who like the lesbian pairings grow concerned that their favored characters would be straight in their future appearances.]]
** When it comes to [[ActorShipping Actress Shipping]]; Almost no one will see some voice actresses (Notably Creator/YoshinoNanjo and Aina Kusuda due to both [=NozoEli=]'s charisma and them wholesomely shipping with each other) being [[HeteronormativeCrusader heterosexual]]. And again, it barely helped that Mimori had a relationship with Okada.
** Make one mention about [[spoiler:µ's disbanding]] and their Final Live, and the fans will tearfully beg you to stop.
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** Whether people whose only exposure to the franchise is through ''School Idol Festival'' should be considered proper fans, a topic similar to arguments over ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fans who have never played the games.
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** Whether people whose only exposure to the franchise is through ''School Idol Festival'' should be considered proper fans, a topic similar to arguments over ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fans who have never played the games.
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** Some may also debate it with the [[Anime/PrettyCure Precure series]] as both of the franchises have female protagonists who are wants to make everyone either happy by or training as an idol or battling against villains and the MonsterOfTheWeek then going through happy and sad lives as they undergo CharacterDevelopment.
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** Kotori sometimes gets this criticism as well, though [[AmericansHateTingle mainly in the western fandom]]. Some feel that she doesn't get a whole lot of characterization beyond "Honoka's NiceGirl childhood friend who likes costume design", and even the focus she does get (like her ADayInTheLimelight episode where she's revealed to secretly work as a {{Meido}} and [[spoiler:her decision to go overseas to study fashion design towards the end of the first season]]) doesn't do much to expand on her character.
** Some felt that both Kotori and Maki's mom should have a proper origin story on how they met, which is done in animation.
** The ''entirety'' of A-RISE, as they only had two songs produced and having less development compared to [[Anime/LoveLiveSunshine Saint Snow]].
** Some felt that both Kotori and Maki's mom should have a proper origin story on how they met, which is done in animation.
** The ''entirety'' of A-RISE, as they only had two songs produced and having less development compared to [[Anime/LoveLiveSunshine Saint Snow]].
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They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot is meant to be used only when a plotline doesn’t get developed despite plenty of potential, never for plotlines that are developed, but not in a way fans like. So µ's not becoming real idols is not this trope, because it’s a plotline that was developed, and saying that fans didn’t like the result of the development is just plain old complaining. On the same note, Umi fans complaining that she didn’t get a focus episode without explaining why that was needed also doesn’t fit. And it shouldn’t have to be said that neither of those tropes is for complaining about queerbaiting.
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** Depending on who you ask, and if one realizes it: Most of the main characters (Nozomi and Eli is one of the prominent examples) also falls into this, as the fans wished that their actual lesbian sexuality is ''beyond queerbaiting''.
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** Again, due to the amount of [[ShipTease ship teasing]], some fans wished that the HoYay moments in the Anime should have been the least {{Subtext}}-y and ambiguous. Several of them even wanted to see any possible confirmation on whether the girls became an eventual same-sex couple in their future appearances.[[note]]Then again, this ultimately goes against the shipping policy.[[/note]]
*** However, the ''official'' artwork of [[https://imgur.com/cdlON9c Eli and Nozomi in traditional Japanese wedding dresses]] ultimately gave fans hope that they're eventually married, then again...like every µ's member, none of their [[spoiler:cameo appearance in ''Sunshine!'' (as their adult selves) had actually confirmed this.]]
** Umi fans wanted an episode centered around her: unfortunately, it wasn't to be.
** Some felt that µ's should have change their minds and becoming real idols like A-RISE.
** TheMovie opens with µ's travelling to New York City in America for publicity purposes in order to get a School Idol event broadcast worldwide at the Akaiba Dome. Considering the possibilities presented by such a huge city and the cultural divide between the girls and the city's American citizens, this set-up could have easily carried most of the film, but instead it's only the first act. About 30 minutes in, the girls are on their way back to Japan where the rest of the action takes place.
** Zig-zagged in School Idol Diary Second Season's 2nd chapter from the 3rd Volume: Nozomi (yes, Ms. AmbiguouslyGay herself) sympathizes Eli's future (male?) lover despite the fact that she said that Eli will '''''NEVER''''' get a boyfriend on their first meeting '''''and''''' the [[WordOfSaintPaul author of the story]] [[https://dynasty-scans.com/system/releases/000/020/451/145.png said that their relationship will continue after their graduation]].[[note]]It doesn't help that the author of this manga also previously made vanilla hetero doujins.[[/note]]
** Again, due to the amount of [[ShipTease ship teasing]], some fans wished that the HoYay moments in the Anime should have been the least {{Subtext}}-y and ambiguous. Several of them even wanted to see any possible confirmation on whether the girls became an eventual same-sex couple in their future appearances.[[note]]Then again, this ultimately goes against the shipping policy.[[/note]]
*** However, the ''official'' artwork of [[https://imgur.com/cdlON9c Eli and Nozomi in traditional Japanese wedding dresses]] ultimately gave fans hope that they're eventually married, then again...like every µ's member, none of their [[spoiler:cameo appearance in ''Sunshine!'' (as their adult selves) had actually confirmed this.]]
** Umi fans wanted an episode centered around her: unfortunately, it wasn't to be.
** Some felt that µ's should have change their minds and becoming real idols like A-RISE.
** TheMovie opens with µ's travelling to New York City in America for publicity purposes in order to get a School Idol event broadcast worldwide at the Akaiba Dome. Considering the possibilities presented by such a huge city and the cultural divide between the girls and the city's American citizens, this set-up could have easily carried most of the film, but instead it's only the first act. About 30 minutes in, the girls are on their way back to Japan where the rest of the action takes place.
** Zig-zagged in School Idol Diary Second Season's 2nd chapter from the 3rd Volume: Nozomi (yes, Ms. AmbiguouslyGay herself) sympathizes Eli's future (male?) lover despite the fact that she said that Eli will '''''NEVER''''' get a boyfriend on their first meeting '''''and''''' the [[WordOfSaintPaul author of the story]] [[https://dynasty-scans.com/system/releases/000/020/451/145.png said that their relationship will continue after their graduation]].[[note]]It doesn't help that the author of this manga also previously made vanilla hetero doujins.[[/note]]
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Again, due to the amount of [[ShipTease ship teasing]], some fans wished that the HoYay moments in the Anime should have been the least {{Subtext}}-y and ambiguous. Several of them even wanted to see any possible confirmation on whether the girls became an eventual same-sex couple in their future appearances.[[note]]Then again, this ultimately goes against the shipping policy.[[/note]]
*** However, the ''official'' artwork of [[https://imgur.com/cdlON9c Eli and Nozomi in traditional Japanese wedding dresses]] ultimately gave fans hope that they're eventually married, then again...like every µ's member, none of their [[spoiler:cameo appearance in ''Sunshine!'' (as their adult selves) had actually confirmed this.]]
** Umi fans wanted an episode centered around her: unfortunately, it wasn't to be.
** Some felt that µ's should have change their minds and becoming real idols like A-RISE.
**TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: TheMovie opens with µ's travelling to New York City in America for publicity purposes in order to get a School Idol event broadcast worldwide at the Akaiba Dome. Considering the possibilities presented by such a huge city and the cultural divide between the girls and the city's American citizens, this set-up could have easily carried most of the film, but instead it's only the first act. About 30 minutes in, the girls are on their way back to Japan where the rest of the action takes place.
** Zig-zagged in School Idol Diary Second Season's 2nd chapter from the 3rd Volume: Nozomi (yes, Ms. AmbiguouslyGay herself) sympathizes Eli's future (male?) lover despite the fact that she said that Eli will '''''NEVER''''' get a boyfriend on their first meeting '''''and''''' the [[WordOfSaintPaul author of the story]] [[https://dynasty-scans.com/system/releases/000/020/451/145.png said that their relationship will continue after their graduation]].[[note]]It doesn't help that the author of this manga also previously made vanilla hetero doujins.[[/note]]place.
** Again, due to the amount of [[ShipTease ship teasing]], some fans wished that the HoYay moments in the Anime should have been the least {{Subtext}}-y and ambiguous. Several of them even wanted to see any possible confirmation on whether the girls became an eventual same-sex couple in their future appearances.[[note]]Then again, this ultimately goes against the shipping policy.[[/note]]
*** However, the ''official'' artwork of [[https://imgur.com/cdlON9c Eli and Nozomi in traditional Japanese wedding dresses]] ultimately gave fans hope that they're eventually married, then again...like every µ's member, none of their [[spoiler:cameo appearance in ''Sunshine!'' (as their adult selves) had actually confirmed this.]]
** Umi fans wanted an episode centered around her: unfortunately, it wasn't to be.
** Some felt that µ's should have change their minds and becoming real idols like A-RISE.
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** Zig-zagged in School Idol Diary Second Season's 2nd chapter from the 3rd Volume: Nozomi (yes, Ms. AmbiguouslyGay herself) sympathizes Eli's future (male?) lover despite the fact that she said that Eli will '''''NEVER''''' get a boyfriend on their first meeting '''''and''''' the [[WordOfSaintPaul author of the story]] [[https://dynasty-scans.com/system/releases/000/020/451/145.png said that their relationship will continue after their graduation]].[[note]]It doesn't help that the author of this manga also previously made vanilla hetero doujins.[[/note]]
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** With other idol series such as ''Anime/AKB0048'', ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'', ''Franchise/PrettyRhythm'' and ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster''.
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** With other idol series such as ''Anime/AKB0048'', ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'', ''Franchise/PrettyRhythm'' ''VideoGame/PrettyRhythm'' and ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster''.
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** In [[MemeticLoser stark contrast to every other males in the series]], Honoka's dad is often joked as the strongest sole surviving male character in the ''Love Live!'' universe. The rest of the on-screen male characters (Cotaro, and the other fathers in ''Sunshine!!''), on the other hand, are an entirely different matter.
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* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: In a minor extent, [[MayDecemberRomance Kotori and Cotaro]].
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** Most of the girls' parents qualify as these.
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** Most of the girls' parents mothers qualify as these.
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** Maki as well, despite having ShipTease with Nico. In addition to the above pairs, she's also shipped with Rin and/or Hanayo, Nozomi and a rare CrossoverShip, [[Characters/LoveLiveSunshine Riko]]. [[note]]Whether their relationship is a normal romantic-type or (in) a (very lesser extent:) "mother-and-daughter" type merely varies.[[/note]]
** Eli qualifies: Nozo/Eli and Eli/Umi are still in constant argument up to this day; minor ships like Hono/Eli and Nico/Eli have their fans; {{Crossover Ship}}s exist with [[Characters/LoveLiveSunshine Dia and Riko]]; and a ShipTease with [[Characters/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival Karin]] in ''ALL STARS''.
** Eli qualifies: Nozo/Eli and Eli/Umi are still in constant argument up to this day; minor ships like Hono/Eli and Nico/Eli have their fans; {{Crossover Ship}}s exist with [[Characters/LoveLiveSunshine Dia and Riko]]; and a ShipTease with [[Characters/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival Karin]] in ''ALL STARS''.
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** Maki as well, despite having ShipTease with Nico. In addition to the above pairs, she's also shipped with Rin and/or Hanayo, Nozomi and a rare CrossoverShip, [[Characters/LoveLiveSunshine [[Characters/LoveLiveAqours Riko]]. [[note]]Whether their relationship is a normal romantic-type or (in) a (very lesser extent:) "mother-and-daughter" type merely varies.[[/note]]
** Eli qualifies: Nozo/Eli and Eli/Umi are still in constant argument up to this day; minor ships like Hono/Eli and Nico/Eli have their fans; {{Crossover Ship}}s exist with[[Characters/LoveLiveSunshine [[Characters/LoveLiveAqours Dia and Riko]]; and a ShipTease with [[Characters/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival [[Characters/LoveLiveNijigasakiHighSchoolIdolClub Karin]] in ''ALL STARS''.
** Eli qualifies: Nozo/Eli and Eli/Umi are still in constant argument up to this day; minor ships like Hono/Eli and Nico/Eli have their fans; {{Crossover Ship}}s exist with
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*** Lastly, Hanayo is liked by a portion of the fandom for being just as {{Moe}} as Kotori, as well as shy, yet having moments where she can actually stand up and act for herself. Others dislike her for exactly those reasons and, like Umi, for [[OutOfFocus not having much focus]] or CharacterDevelopment over the course of the anime other than for her shyness and BigEater tendencies; as such, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter she's not as interesting as the other girls]]. Her voice is also a point of contention, and some fans wish she stuck with the lower voice she used in her earlier songs.
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*** Lastly, Hanayo is liked by a portion of the fandom for being just as {{Moe}} as Kotori, as well as shy, yet having moments where she can actually stand up and act for herself. Others dislike her for exactly those reasons and, like Umi, for [[OutOfFocus not having much focus]] or CharacterDevelopment over the course of the anime other than for her shyness and BigEater tendencies; as such, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter she's not as interesting as the other girls]]. Her voice is also a point of contention, contention. Some find it cute, while other fans find it annoying, and some fans wish she stuck with the lower voice she used in her earlier songs.
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*** Lastly, Hanayo is liked by a portion of the fandom for being just as {{Moe}} as Kotori, as well as shy, yet having moments where she can actually stand up and act for herself. Others dislike her for exactly those reasons and, like Umi, for [[OutOfFocus not having much focus]] or CharacterDevelopment over the course of the anime other than for her shyness and BigEater tendencies; as such, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter she's not as interesting as the other girls]].
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*** Lastly, Hanayo is liked by a portion of the fandom for being just as {{Moe}} as Kotori, as well as shy, yet having moments where she can actually stand up and act for herself. Others dislike her for exactly those reasons and, like Umi, for [[OutOfFocus not having much focus]] or CharacterDevelopment over the course of the anime other than for her shyness and BigEater tendencies; as such, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter she's not as interesting as the other girls]]. Her voice is also a point of contention, and some fans wish she stuck with the lower voice she used in her earlier songs.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The last episodes of Season 1 have Kotori prepared to study fashion abroad, and µ's disbanding due to an internal rift sparked by Honoka quitting because of her best friend leaving. None of that actually sticks, of course, since there's no way they'd break up the group in real life after only one anime season.
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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Depending on how you see it, the moral at the end of Season 1 could either be "be truthful to who you are" or "[[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop be selfish and you'll get anything you want if you're charismatic enough about it]]". There are quite a few arguments in favor of both sides.
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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Depending on how you see it, the moral at the end of Season 1 could either be "be truthful to who you are" or "[[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop be "be selfish and you'll get anything you want if you're charismatic enough about it]]".it". There are quite a few arguments in favor of both sides.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The final episode of season 1, where [[spoiler:Kotori]] is about to [[PutOnABus pursue her personal dreams by going to study abroad]], which would mean µ's breaking up. After she's packed all her things and is about to depart at the airport, Honoka begs her to stay, which even she admits was selfish. Some fans [[AlternateAesopInterpretation have interpreted this as]] "be selfish and you'll get anything you want if you're charismatic enough about it".
