Love Live! School Idol Festival

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Love Live! School Idol Festival
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Developer(s)KLabGames
Publisher(s)Bushiroad
SeriesLove Live!
EnginePlayground[1]
Platform(s)
Release
  • JPN: April 15, 2013
  • WW: May 12, 2014
  • CHN: June 12, 2014
Genre(s)
Mode(s)

Love Live! School Idol Festival[a] (often abbreviated as LLSIF or Sukufesu) is a Japanese rhythm game series developed by KLab and published by Bushiroad's Bushimo for Android and iOS platforms. It was first released in Japan on April 15, 2013 (Android) and June 8, 2013 (iOS).[2] The game is free-to-play with an in-app purchase system. It features songs and characters from the series Love Live! School Idol Project and Love Live! Sunshine!!, newly introduced girls, and stories that are not included in other media in the Love Live! franchise.

The English localization was released worldwide on May 11, 2014, for iOS and Android devices.[3] It also was localized in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and South Korea.[4] At the end of September 2016, the English version added Korean support, and the two servers merged.[5] The Traditional Chinese version, which was operated by Mobimon in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, also merged with the English version on May 18, 2017.[6] In February 2021 it was announced that the worldwide server would be merging with the Japanese server, which was completed in June 2021.[7] The changes included the removal of Korean and Traditional Chinese language from the server.[8]

On January 11, 2016, the cast of Love Live! Sunshine!! live streamed a special announcement regarding Aqours' members joining the app in July 2016.[9] In the game, Aqours received original main and side stories, playable songs, and fully voiced cards. KLab added R rarity cards for each Aqours members on January 31, 2016, though they were only voiced after the official release in July. In June 2016, 2 Aqours members (Chika and Riko) were featured in an event for the first time. The group officially joined the game on July 5, 2016, along with a new card rarity and other major updates.[10]

An arcade version of the game titled Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity (developed and published by Square Enix) was released on December 6, 2016, in Japan,[11] and a PlayStation 4 port was released in North America, Japan, and Southeast Asia on March 24, 2021.[12][13] Another spin-off game titled Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars was released on September 26, 2019, in Japan and February 25, 2020, worldwide. It stars the girls from Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, with μ's and Aqours also being prominently featured within the game.[14][15]

Gameplay[]

During "Live Show," the player has to tap the icons with the rhythm of the song

The game has two gameplay modes—"Story" and "Live"— featuring all nine members of the idol groups μ's and Aqours.[b] Players acquire a score in the rhythm "Live" mode, in which they tap circles at the proper time in order to receive a high score that can be placed on the leader board. These songs are divided into 4 difficulties: Easy, Normal, Hard, and Expert. Another difficulty called "Master" features songs that are only available for a limited time and include rhythm icons where players have to swipe their fingers on the screen during some songs.

In "Story" mode, the player works as μ's' and Aqours' helper and manage their training and schedule. The mode is full-voiced with all of the idols' respective voice actresses. The players interacts with the girls as they live their lives as school idols.[2]

The game has several currencies:

  • LP: Stamina necessary for doing a Live. One song can use up to 25 LP depending on the song's difficulty. LP can be refilled by using one Love Gem, by using "Sugar Cubes" and "Sugar Pots" obtained via Special Rewards, by waiting for it to be refilled (1LP per 6 minutes), or by raising the account level or "Rank". Every 2 ranks, the player's maximum LP increases by one point. When the player reaches rank 300, their maximum LP will take 3 ranks to increase by one point instead of 2. Refilling the LP or leveling up will cause the LP to be overflowed, which means that players may sometimes end up with more LP than their account would normally be able to have.
  • Gs: The app's in-game currency, Gs can be used for leveling up or idolizing an idol, or buying temporary stat increases during some events.
  • Friend points: Points that can be acquired by having other players help during a Live. Friend points can be used to scout N, SSR and R rarity cards.
  • Love Gems: The app's in-game currency which can be bought through in-app purchase. It is can be used for refilling the entire LP bar, member scouting (gacha pull), or continuing a failed Live.
  • Scouting Ticket: Besides Love Gems, the other way to scout a rare member through the "Honor Scouting" system is by using a scouting ticket. There are three types of tickets: green regular tickets, blue scouting coupons, and purchased scouting tickets that guarantee cards of a certain rarity.
  • Stickers: If an R, SR, SSR, or UR rarity card is used for practice or deleted, the player will gain a sticker. These stickers can be used for idolizing a card or purchasing other cards or scouting coupons from the Sticker Shop. Stickers' rarity are divided into 4 types that depend on the rarity of the used cards. Cards that doesn't feature the girls from either μ's or Aqours, and promotional and skill cards won't give stickers.

Cards and team formation[]

Players can form 9-person units. The girls in the formation are called "members". Players acquire new members by doing Lives or scouting through "Student Scouting" that uses the gacha system. Two same cards can be combined and they will be "Idolized," which unlocks new card art and a side story gives a Love Gem. Each member has their own card level and skill that can be leveled up by doing a "Practice", which involves sacrificing one or more cards to increase the level of another one. In order to increase skill level, cards that are "practiced" must have the same skill. Increasing skill and card levels improves the scores players can obtain in "Lives". New Aqours and regular members are added every time an in-game event has ended and μ's cards are added halfway through events.

Members cards are divided into 5 rarities: N (normal), R (rare), SR (super rare), SSR (special super rare), and UR (ultra rare). Each rarity (except N-rarity) has a different set of leader skills (passive) and active skills that affect the Lives scores. Cards and songs are divided into attributes that represent each card's idol type: Smile, Cool, and Pure. Using the same attribute members to do Lives of the same attribute song gives a higher score.

The original characters added in the game are featured in the N-rarity cards. There are 54 characters with 9 girls represent 6 different schools:

These characters are not voiced, but Emma Verde (previously only named Emma), Kanata Konoe, and Shizuku Osaka were promoted to become part of the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and were each given voice actresses. Fujimaru designed the new characters.[16]

Besides the regular cards, the game also includes "promotional cards" and "skill up cards". Promotional cards can be obtained free as a bonus from purchasing Love Live! merchandise, clearing quests, purchasing through Sticker Shop, scouting using Gs, or simply logging in to the game. Regardless of rarity, promotional cards have relatively low stats and leader skill effects. They also don't give stickers when practiced or deleted. The cards are usually pre-idolized, which means that players cannot idolize the card for different art. μ's and Aqours' respective rival groups (A-Rise and Saint Snow), the groups' younger selves,[c] and the girls from Nijigasaki High School are also featured as fully voiced promotional cards.

A skill up card is used to level up the skill of a card. It can't be idolized or used in a Live. These cards feature characters around the main groups such as the girls' mothers, school friends and teachers, and even animals. These cards can be obtained by logging in, special box scouting, in-game event rewards, or purchasing a limited time sale pack.

In-game events[]

Every 15 days, an in-game event with a total of 1 UR rarity card as a reward is held.[d] Each event runs for around 10 days with a 5-days break. The UR rarity card is obtainable by collecting event points and competing with other players through event points ranking. Reward includes Gs, Love Gems, and skill-up cards.

The game has currently 6 type of events:

Token Collection (アイコンコレクション, Aikon Korekushon)[18]
Players play an event-exclusive song to get the event points. The song requires Tokens which are collected by playing songs. Sometimes, the event also featured a short story that was previously featured in the franchise's novel series School Idol Diary.
Score Match (スコアマッチ, Sukoa Macchi)[18]
4 players compete with each other to get the highest score from a randomly-chosen song.
Medley Festival (メドレーフェスティバル, Medorē Fesutibaru)[18]
Players can play up to three songs in a row and can use stat increases to improve their score and/or Live prize. Some stat increases will appear randomly from in-game friends.
Challenge Festival (チャレンジフェスティバル, Charenji Fesutibaru)
Players can play up to 5 songs and receive the accumulated prize at the end of the challenge. μ's members will appear and give random ability increases. If 3 members with same sub-unit, school year, and/or wear same uniform appear, a specific mission will appear. Clearing the mission will give the players an additional prize.
Adventure Stroll (おさんぽラリー, Osanpo Rarī) (Retired)
Players clear Live songs to unlock Aqours and μ's side stories and clear missions while "taking a stroll" around the event map. Live songs also give 'souvenirs' which players can exchange for friend points, event SR rarity cards, and in-game backgrounds.
Companion Match (なかよしマッチ, Nakayoshi Macchi)[19]
Works like Score Match, but instead of competing against each other, the event requires 4 players to work together in clearing missions by reaching certain scores or combos. Players' scores are determined by how much they contributed. While in score mission they are ranked from highest to the lowest score, combo mission will always display anyone with "Full Combo" as the first place(s).

Collaboration event[]

In 2019, the Japanese server of School Idol Festival held its first collaboration event outside the Love Live! franchise. The collaboration event with mobile TCG, Shadowverse, was held in both of the games (September 20–30 within the School Idol Festival app). Between the 9 girls of Aqours, Yoshiko Tsushima was chosen as representative through fan votes. The collaboration campaign includes a new song, "Deep Resonance" that was included in the group's 4th single, collaboration SSR cards of the group, a limited UR card for Yoshiko, as well as login bonuses.[20]

Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity[]

Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity
The PlayStation 4 version cover art features the title logo, which reads "Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity Wai-Wai! Home Meeting!!". The cover art also features two characters: on the left is Honoka Kōsaka wearing "Sakura Paint Memories" costume, and on the right is Chika Takami wearing "Marine Paint Memories" costume.
Cover art of the PlayStation 4 version
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)Square Enix
Platform(s)
ReleaseArcade
  • JP: December 6, 2016
PlayStation 4
Genre(s)Rhythm game
Mode(s)

On November 27, 2015, the official website of the game announced the production of the arcade version of Love Live! School Idol Festival.[21] The arcade game titled Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity[e] (often abbreviated as SIFAC or Sukufesu AC) is a joint development with Square Enix and operates using NESiCA Cards.[22] The name comes from the fact that because the initial release of the game was an arcade game, players will have to go to a game center to play the game, which gives it an "after school" feeling.[23] A beta testing on location were held on May 13–15 and May 27–29, 2016.[24] The game was fully released on December 6 of the same year.[11]

Different from the mobile game, the arcade version featured a cooperative mode; it can be played by up to 3 players in certain modes and has fully 3D CG dances for all songs. It also lets players collect and print Profile Cards and Member Cards—each comes with buff skills—just like the original game. The game had 3 type of in-game events: Birthday Event (バースデーイベント), Skill Card Event (スキルカードイベント), and Score Ranking Event (スコアランキングバトル).

In October 2017, Aqours from Love Live! Sunshine!! were announced to join the arcade game.[25] They first appeared for a limited time from December 6, 2017, until January 8, 2018, as a preliminary trial as part of the game's 1st anniversary campaign.[26]

In April 2018, Square Enix announced the game will receive a major update titled Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity Next Stage as part of Love Live! School Idol Festival's 5th anniversary campaign. Aqours' songs were added as well as a new function named "School Idol Outing" (おでかけ♪スクールアイドル, Odokake Sukūru Aidoru) and a new song difficulty.[27] The group has been officially added to the game along with the major update on December 6, 2018.[28] On September 5, 2019, Saint Snow, the rival duo of Aqours, was added to the game, along with several of their songs.[29]

Square Enix announced in October 2020 that the arcade version will receive a final update on November 10, 2020, essentially ending support for the game's arcade iteration. However, a 4th anniversary "Thank You" promotional campaign was held from December 2020 to March 2021.[30][31]

The arcade version has been ported to PlayStation 4 under the title Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity Wai-Wai! Home Meeting!!,[f] released digitally in North America, Japan, and Southeast Asia on March 24, 2021.

Gameplay[]

The player is playing "Yume no Tobira" with four buttons, hitting Perfects. The heads-up display features the Clear Gauge on the top-left, which is currently near the B Rank. Their score, currently has 18855 points, is on the top-right. And the stars with individual alphabet which would spell out "Love Live!", currently has "L O V E L I", is at the top. The 3D animated music video in the background, which Kotori, Nozomi, Umi, and Rin are performing in its respective costume set on the rooftop in the city.
The gameplay is similar to its mobile counterpart, but it also features fully 3D animated dance sequences, in which the costume set and the stage can be changed. In the PlayStation 4 version, the amount of buttons played depends on the selected difficulty.

The gameplay is similar to its mobile counterpart, however the arcade version uses nine physical buttons placed around the display panel instead of touchscreen. The main difference from the mobile game is there's no stamina system, so players cannot fail any songs. However, in order to reach higher score and ranking, the player must hit all nine "Finale Rhythm Icons", which is a note with a star, anchor, or snowman (μ's, Aqours, and Saint Snow modes respectively). Each Final Rhythm Icon will add letters to a gauge which would spell out "Love Live!", if all nine are collected. When all nine are collected, the Finale Mode begins, usually at the song's outro, where all notes will yield extra score points.[32][33] The difficulty levels are different from mobile game to accommodate with physical buttons. The highest difficulty level, "Challenge," requires players to press up to four buttons at once.[34]

The arcade version has separate card printing machine, where players can collect Member Cards, and create their own Profile Card. The Member Cards are collected through a gacha-style system. A Member Card comes in two varieties, each with different rarities, R and HR. An R card unlocks the costume set, while an HR card also adds additional effects, like "Finale Focus" (introduced in the Next Stage update). Player's Profile Cards are created by taking a screenshot of the desired member in music videos, and adding up to three Skill Cards. These cards can be printed out and shared with other players to assist their gameplay.[35]

PlayStation 4 version[]

On October 10, 2020, a console port of the arcade game was announced, titled Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity Wai-Wai! Home Meeting!! (officially abbreviated as SIFAC HM). It was released in North America, Japan, and Southeast Asia on March 24, 2021, for PlayStation 4.[36] The game also features English, simplified and traditional Chinese localisations, similar to other games in the franchise.[12][13] SIFAC HM received exclusive content not featured in the arcade version.[37] The game is natively backward compatible with PlayStation 5.[38]

SIFAC HM is free-to-start, which the base game includes eight songs. Additional songs are available as paid downloadable content (DLC). At the release, 21 Song Pack DLCs (13 for μ's, and 9 for Aqours / Saint Snow; 117 songs in total) became available.[39]

Unlike the arcade version, SIFAC HM has its own difficulty levels to accommodate for DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers. From easiest to hardest, "Beginner" and "Standard" are played with 4 buttons, while "Hyper" and "Adventure" are played with 6 buttons. Arcade mode with 9 buttons, with all its original difficulty levels, is also available.[40]

Another difference from the arcade version is the player can unlock the costume set by "creating" it, using materials received from playing Live Shows. Alternatively the player can also purchase the costume sets as DLC immediately.[41]

Technical issues[]

An infamous bug occurred in the first day after the Next Stage update had been released for the arcades in 2018, wherein sometimes the characters appeared to be naked during the dance sequences. This bug was widely shared on Twitter as screenshots and clips of dancing "Barbie doll-esque" nude characters during gameplay had been spread across it.[42] This bug caused Square Enix to take the game server in "urgent maintenance" for few days in order to fix the bug.[43]

Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars[]

Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars
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Developer(s)
Publisher(s)Bushiroad
Platform(s)
Release
  • JPN: September 26, 2019
  • WW: February 25, 2020[g]
  • CHN: May 28, 2021
Genre(s)
Mode(s)

A spin-off game of Love Live! School Idol Festival was announced during Tokyo Game Show 2017 as part of the game's 4th anniversary. The new game titled Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars[h] (officially abbreviated as LLAS (スクスタ, Sukusuta)) for 2019 release.[i] The game uses an alternate story that differentiates it from other media where μ's and Aqours are in the same school year and works together as one along with the girls from Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.[45] Owing to this, μ's isn't disbanded, and Chika Takami's original reason for becoming school idol in the anime and earlier sources, which was after seeing μ's on stage, was slightly changed to admiring school idols and then become one herself. The game is described as "the ultimate idol rhythm RPG game" that allows players to 'participate' in the game and customize the school idols.[46] Nijigasaki High School Idol Club performs the opening theme titled "Tokimeki Runners."[47] The game was officially released in Japan on September 26, 2019.[48] A global version which features English, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Thai languages was released on February 25, 2020.[g][15] The mainland China server with Simplified Chinese was released on May 28, 2021.[49]

Players assume the role of the protagonist, a 2nd year student at Nijigasaki High School who becomes interested in school idols after seeing joint live between μ's and Aqours.[50] After looking for a related club in Nijigasaki, the protagonist learns that the existing school idol club is on its last legs of survival and decides to rebuild and reform the school idol club.

New features include: tree-based growth system, new Live system, and "SIF ID" (スクフェスID, Sukufesu ID) system. Using the SIF ID, players will be able to play both games under the same account. Syncing their SIF ID created on Love Live! School Idol Festival with LLAS, players will be able to port their Rank and their progress made in the game to the new title. However, the benefits of the new ID offer extend far beyond just the saving of one's progress.[14]

In August 2020, a character that appeared within the game's story, Shioriko Mifune, was added to the game as a playable character and Nijigasaki High School Idol Club as an official member. She receives a solo song, a 3D model, and cards obtainable within the games scouting boxes. Another new members Lanzhu Zhong and Mia Taylor, was also added as playable characters in September 2021.[51]

Live Show system[]

In All Stars, the rhythm portion only consists of two buttons, but the player can tap anywhere on the screen to register a tap. Also, players are able to have idols of their choice perform in fully 3D animated dance sequences.

Instead of focusing on its "rhythm game" system, the game uses an "RPG-like system" where it requires the player to carefully build their teams with strategy and train their idols in order to be able to successfully clear a live, as all tapped notes will drain the Stamina bar, even when tapped perfectly. The 9 tap note icons that represent the 9 members of an idol group have been reduced to two, and the player is able to tap anywhere on the screen to register a tap. During a Live Show, the participating member(s) are depicted as full-3D models with dance choreography on screen.[j]

In addition to the original members' elements (Smile, Pure, Cool), 3 new elements have been added: Active, Natural, and Elegant. Besides elements, the members are also divided by 4 different attributes: Voltage (Vo), Special Skill (Sp), Guard (Gd), and Skill (Sk). During the lives, 9 members are divided into 3 "Strategy" units. Strategy units can have different positive and negative effects depending on the members' attributes in the Strategy, such as increased tap score, reduced stamina damage, or more frequent skill activation, as well shortened Strategy switch time. Only one of the Strategies is active at a time, but the player may switch to a different Strategy to take advantage of different members' skills and effects and to clear "Appeal Chances" that appear during a live.

The player can also put the Live Show in autoplay, where the notes will be tapped automatically, allows player to focus on controlling the Strategy units completely.[k] However, all tapped note timings are "Great," which gains less total Voltage compared to manual play. Achieving S rank in a song difficulty allows player to use Skip Tickets, where player can clear the cleared song without having to actually play the same song's difficulty.

Event system[]

Besides the two types of event that also featured in School Idol Festival, there are some type of new event exclusive to All Stars:

  • SBL (SIFAS Big Live): A big event where 20 people play at the same time and work together to reach the goal that the event has set. With the rewards obtained from the event, player is able to acquire the event cards from the previous events, scout tickets, and others.[52]
  • Dream Live Parade: Player needs to clear one stage to move onto the next stage with one limitation: they can only use one card for one time (except for featured characters, which is two). Player is able to obtain coins that allows them to exchange the coins with accessories and others.[53]

Systems[]

Aside from the new live and event system, the game also introduced some new systems:

  • Practice system: To rise an idol's stats or "Idolizing" them, the player has to acquire needed items through performing Live Shows, Training, or event rewards. Through Practice's skill Bond Board, player are also able to unlock the idols' costumes (as well as the re-colored version), side stories, "Inspiration" skills, and navigation voices that is listenable in the front page. The idol's skill tree can also be unlocked further more by acquiring the idol's card's duplicate through "Scouting," event rewards for event-exclusive cards, or using the "School Idol Radiance."
  • Training: Player can create a team of 9 cards and send them to a "Training Camp." The training camp requires an Action Point (AP) and gives items for skill tree advancement due completion. The APs will replenish up to 3 every 12am and 12pm JST. For certain chances, idols that came to the training camp can get "Inspiration Skills". Depending on the card's rarity, up to 3 Inspiration Skill slot has been unlocked by default, and one more slot can be unlocked through Practice.
  • Bonding system: The player is able to boost the idol's stats through the Bonding system. The boosts are applied to all cards of the same idol, not per card. This section is divided in two parts, as the latter was added in later update:
    • Bond Level: As the player clears (or skips) Live Shows with idols in their Formation, the idols receive certain amount of their "Bond Points," depending on the difficulty. When reaching certain number of Bond Points they can reach a new Bond Level, which gives more stats boost to their cards, and will be able to unlock Bond Boards as detailed below. It will also unlock their "Bond Episode," which some is required to unlock certain songs. However, their Bond Level is initially capped at Level 15 at the beginning, but their cap will increase by up to two for each new cards, and Limit Increases (receiving duplicate cards, and using Radiances in Practice).
    • Bond Board: As the player levels up the idol's Bond Level, the player is able to unlock Bond Boards. Their idol stats can be boosted further through Bond Board, using their "Memorial Pieces" and "Memento Pieces." A single Board consists of five boost panels, with three of them are always Appeal, Technique, and Stamina each, while the other two varies for each Board. Completing the board will proceed to the next unlocked Board sequentially, and gives the idol additional bonus. The material cost for each panel becomes higher in higher level Boards. This Bond Board feature was added since version 1.7.0 in both servers.
  • Costume system: Player is able to change a character's 3D model costume, where it will affect them in main menu, bond menu, and live shows. These purely cosmetic costumes are obtainable through UR and SR cards within their Bond Board or by exchanging the costume tickets.

Nijigasaki High School Idol Club[]

Main article: Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club
The members of Nijigasaki High School Idol Club as of September 2021. From left to right: Mia, Rina, Setsuna, Ai, Shizuku, Ayumu, Kasumi, Karin, Kanata, Emma Verde, Shioriko, and Lanzhu.

In March 2017, the official website of Love Live School Idol Festival launched a new project called "Perfect Dream Project," which features 9 new girls. Emma, Kanata Konoe, and Shizuku Osaka were three members who were already featured as N-rarity girls and topped the 3rd popularity poll.[54][55] The remaining 6 girls were later introduced: Ayumu Uehara, Kasumi Nakasu, Karin Asaka, Ai Miyashita, Setsuna Yuki, and Rina Tennoji. In August 2020, a new member, Shioriko Mifune was added. In September 2021, Lanzhu Zhong and Mia Taylor were also added.

The members are part of the school idol club at Nijigasaki High School that is located in Odaiba, Tokyo. The school is popular due to its free school style and diverse majors.[50] Unlike μ's and Aqours, they are not a group, but rather individual school idols who compete with each other; a popularity poll is held every month to determine their rank.[l] Together, they are referred as "Nijigasaki High School Idol Club"[m]—shortened as Nijigaku or simply Nijigasaki in the official sources. The girls were split up into groups of three to begin activities in three different apps before their addition to the game: Dengeki Online website (Kasumi, Karin, Setsuna), Famitsu App website (Ayumu, Ai, Rina), and the game's official website (Emma, Shizuku, Kanata). Each place is working as a separate room or branch office for the Nijigasaki High School.[56]

They are featured in the spin-off game Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars along with μ's and Aqours. They also appear as SR rarity cards in Love Live! School Idol Festival.[46][57] Each of them also get a solo song that was released along with the group's song for the new game on November 21, 2018.[47] Their second album, also contains their solo songs, was released on October 2, 2019.[58] The third album that also includes Shioriko's first solo single was released on September 2, 2020. The fourth album will includes solo songs for the original 9 members, as well solo songs for the three newly added members. It is scheduled to release on October 13, 2021.

The names of the girls' sub-unit were decided by community poll. Rather than three sub-units of three members like μ's and Aqours, the Nijigasaki girls were divided into a duo, trio, and a quartet. The sub-unit formation and naming was announced June 10, 2019. The formations are: Karin-Ai (DiverDiva), Ayumu-Shizuku-Setsuna (A・Zu・Na), and Kasumi-Kanata-Emma-Rina (Qu4rtz, pronounced "Quartz").[59] The sub-unit's first singles were released February 12, 2020. A new sub-unit was later announced in July 2021. It consists of Shioriko Mifune, Lanzhu Zhong, and Mia Taylor. The sub-unit's name was later announced, R3birth. The sub-unit's first single will be released on October 6, 2021.

An anime adaptation titled Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club[n] started broadcast in October 2020.[60] The anime features a slightly different storyline from the game, an original protagonist character Yu Takasaki, as well as cameos from School Idol Festival N-rarity girls who did not make to "Perfect Dream Project."

Other media[]

Discography[]

See also: Love Live! discography

CDs and albums released as part of campaign from the game franchise. Note that since Nijigasaki High School Idol Club were created for School Idol Festival All Stars, any music releases released for its television anime series will NOT be included.

Type Title Artist(s) Release date Notes
Single "Takaramonos/Paradise Live" (タカラモノズ／Paradise Live) μ's January 29, 2014 Collaboration single with School Idol Festival
"Heart to Heart!" October 28, 2015
"Jingle Bell ga Tomaranai" (ジングルベルがとまらない) Aqours November 23, 2016
Album Tokimeki Runners Nijigasaki High School Idol Club November 21, 2018 Opening theme for All Stars and the group's 1st album
Love U My Friends October 2, 2019 Nijigasaki High School Idol Club 2nd album
Single "Kokoro Magic "A to Z"" Aqours October 30, 2019 Collaboration single with All Stars
"New Romantic Sailors" Guilty Kiss November 27, 2019 Collaboration single with School Idol Festival
"Braveheart Coaster" CYaRon! December 4, 2019
"Amazing Travel DNA" Azalea December 11, 2019
"Super Nova" DiverDiva February 12, 2020 DiverDiva's 1st single
"Dream Land! Dream World!" A・Zu・Na A・Zu・Na's 1st single
"Sing & Smile!!" Qu4rtz Qu4rtz's 1st single
Album Just Believe!!! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club September 2, 2020 Nijigasaki High School Idol Club 3rd album, which also features first single for newly added member, Shioriko Mifune
Single "The Secret Night" DiverDiva May 26, 2021 DiverDiva's 2nd single
"Maze Town" A・Zu・Na June 16, 2021 A・Zu・Na's 2nd single
"Swinging!" Qu4rtz July 14, 2021 Qu4rtz's 2nd single
"Monster Girls" R3birth October 6, 2021 R3birth's first single. Includes one sub-unit track and 3 solos for each members.
Album TBA Nijigasaki High School Idol Club October 13, 2021 Nijigasaki High School Idol Club 4th album

Print[]

Several books of the game's illustration cards and original story collection has been released since 2013.

Release
date		 Title Publisher ISBN
July 30, 2013 Love Live! School Idol Festival Official Guide Book (ラブライブ! スクールアイドルフェスティバル 公式ガイドブック) ASCII Media Works ISBN 978-4-04-891903-6
July 19, 2014 Love Live! School Idol Festival Official Illustration Book (ラブライブ! スクールアイドルフェスティバル official illustration book) ISBN 978-4-04-866727-2
Love Live! School Idol Festival Official Fan Book (ラブライブ! スクールアイドルフェスティバル official fan book) Enterbrain ISBN 978-4-04-729823-1
October 30, 2017 Love Live! School Idol Festival Aqours Official Illustration Book (ラブライブ!スクールアイドルフェスティバル Aqours official illustration book) ASCII Media Works ISBN 978-4-04-893376-6
December 20, 2017 Love Live! School Idol Festival Aqours Official Story Book (ラブライブ！スクールアイドルフェスティバル Aqours official story book) ISBN 978-4-04-893508-1
June 30, 2018 Love Live! School Idol Festival Aqours Official Illustration Book 2 (ラブライブ!スクールアイドルフェスティバル Aqours official illustration book 2) Kadokawa ISBN 9784048938143
March 30, 2019 Love Live! School Idol Festival Aqours Official Illustration Book 3 (ラブライブ!スクールアイドルフェスティバル Aqours official illustration book 3) ISBN 9784049124354
January 18, 2020 Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Dōkokai First Fan Book (ラブライブ！虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会 FIRST FAN BOOK) ISBN 9784049129380
March 30, 2020 Love Live! School Idol Festival Aqours Official Illustration Book 4 (ラブライブ!スクールアイドルフェスティバル Aqours official illustration book 4) ISBN 9784049131253
March 24, 2021 Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity Wai-Wai! Home Meeting!! – μʼs Memorial Special Book (ラブライブ！スクールアイドルフェスティバル ～after school ACTIVITY～ わいわい！Home Meeting!! μ’s メモリアルスペシャルパック) Square Enix
Love Live! School Idol Festival: After School Activity Wai-Wai! Home Meeting!! – Aqours Memorial Special Book (ラブライブ！スクールアイドルフェスティバル ～after school ACTIVITY～ わいわい！Home Meeting!! Aqoursメモリアルスペシャルパック)

Manga[]

A 4-koma manga was published and can be read via the game's application titled Ten Fes: Transfer Student Festival (てん☆ふぇす ~転入生フェスティバル~). The manga tells the stories around the N-rarity girls. It was published from September 30, 2016, every Friday and ended on 54th episode.[61]

After the announcement of "Perfect Dream Project," three 4-koma mangas are published respectively via Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars , Dengeki Online, and Famitsu App official website as part of their school idol club activity. The first manga titled Sugoi Ten Fes (すごい てん☆ふぇす) is focused on the N rarity members who topped the popularity poll: Shizuku Ōsaka, Kanata Konoe, and Emma Verde.[62] Second 4-koma manga focused on Kasumi Nakasu, Karin Asaka, and Setsuna Yūki since July 4, 2017. The manga is drawn by Miyakohito.[63] Third 4-koma manga focused on Ayumu Uehara, Ai Miyashita, and Rina Tennōji also published since October 3, 2017. Choboraunyopomi drawn the manga.[64]

Reception[]

As of September 12, 2017, the game has reached over 40 million users worldwide (Japanese and Global server combined). This exclude multiple accounts on same devices.[65][46] In Japan, the game grossed more than ¥16.4 billion ($150.45 million) between 2017 and 2018, including more than ¥8.8 billion in 2017,[66] and ¥7.6 billion in 2018.[67]

As of May 1, 2020, the global server of Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars has reached over 1 million players.[68]

Controversy[]

Fans of the English version of the Love Live! School Idol Festival game discovered that most of the homosexual subtext between the various girls depicted in the game were removed. In some instances, overt references to relationships between girls were changed to imply a relationship between a girl and a boy. KLab has since issued a statement on the controversy and later released an update on June 30, 2015, to make adjustments to the translated text to retain their original meanings.[69][70]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Japanese: ラブライブ! スクールアイドルフェスティバル, Hepburn: Rabu Raibu! Sukūru Aidoru Fesutibaru, stylised as Love Live! School idol festival
  2. ^ μ's - pronounced "Muse"
    Aqours - pronounced as "Aqua"
  3. ^ Added as part of the game's 2018 April's Fools event[17]
  4. ^ 2 cards before Chika and Riko's first included event on June 2016
  5. ^ ラブライブ! スクールアイドルフェスティバル ～after school ACTIVITY～, Rabu Raibu! Sukūru Aidoru Fesutibaru: After School Activity
  6. ^ ラブライブ！スクールアイドルフェスティバル ～after school ACTIVITY～ わいわい！Home Meeting!!, Rabu Raibu! Sukūru Aidoru Fesutibaru: After School Activity Wai Wai! Home Meeting!!, stylised as Love Live! School Idol Festival ～after school ACTIVITY～ Wai-Wai!Home Meeting!!
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Excluding Belgium due to local gambling law banning paid loot boxes (Scouting)
  8. ^ ラブライブ！スクールアイドルフェスティバルALL STARS, Rabu Raibu! Sukūru Aidoru Fesutibaru All Stars, stylised as Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS
  9. ^ Originally 2018; pushed back due to technical problems within the in-game CG dance system[44]
  10. ^ Except daily songs and some A-side songs
  11. ^ In the previous versions the player needed to play the song once to unlock autoplay.
  12. ^ Until 2019; It was changed to monthly questionnaire in 2020 onward.
  13. ^ 虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会, Nijigasaki Gakuen Sukūru Aidoru Dōkō-kai
  14. ^ Japanese: ラブライブ！虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会, Hepburn: Rabu Raibu! Nijigasaki Gakuen Sukūru Aidoru Dōkō-kai

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