Coach Nishikino: Love Live! New Life!!
is a Love Live! fanfic by Musings From Mars that focuses on a grown-up Maki Nishikino, exhausted from an education for a career she does not want, who suddenly finds a new opportunity: becoming the coach for a new idol group at her former rival school, UTX. As Maki attempts to put together a new group from a ragtag bunch of girls, she also finds herself reuniting with her former Muse members, becoming particularly to some...
Coach Nishikino: Love Live! New Life!! contains examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Gender Identity: In this fic, Rin is now a trans woman.
- "All Grown Up" Remark: Upon seeing Hanayo and Rin again, both on their channel and in the flesh, Maki notes how much more mature they look since the last time she saw them, particularly Rin.
- Downer Beginning: At the start of the fic, Maki is at a physical and mental breaking point - exhausted from her med school education, no longer wanting to be a doctor, isolated and having had no contact with her fellow idols in years.
- Goth: One of the first members that Maki recruits into her idol group, Ayano, is a mysterious and snarky goth with an interest in costume design.
- It's All About Me: Kaya, a UTX student, is rejected from joining the new idol group after it becomes clear that she cares nothing about idols (to the point of not even knowing the title of Snow Halation, one of Muse's best known songs, despite being a proclaimed fan) and instead sees becoming an idol as a path to having people recognize her greatness.
