My Love Live! Story is a little long, but if you're interested I'd gladly tell you about it~

Where do I start though? I guess at the beginning.

I was still very new to Anime when my best friend introduced me to Love Live! It was in 2014 I think, I was only 11 back then!

So my best friend told me about that new Anime she found, called ''Love Live! School Idol Project''. with sparkling eyes, she told me about how much she loved the ''blue haired, mature girl''. I haven't seen the Anime yet, so that's what I referred to Umi as.

When I got home that day, I browsed through my phone when I suddenly remembered about the Anime my friend had told me about. I went to start up my PC and looked for it; and watched the first episode.

I was immediately amazed by how flashy it was and how great the music was. I didn't know what idols were back then, so at first glance it seemed like a 'we want to create a band'' kind of Anime.

After a few episodes though, I fell in love with my initial best girl; Yazawa Nico. I recognized her from the memes and decided to watch the whole season in a day. It was about 3am when I finished season one.

After a while, I got my first Love Live! Cosplay; It was Nico, and my best friend cosplayed Umi.

We both watched season 2 together in a night. While her best girl stayed as Umi, my best girl slowly began to become Kotori. But after watching the Movie, I could finally decide on a best girl which is my best girl to this day; Tojo Nozomi, which I also cosplayed soon after!

I love Nozomi a lot. She's my biggest comfort character and has, as weird as it may sound, helped me through a lot of hard times. She kind of kept me alive.

Then as time passed by, I noticed that the Anime had it game, which I downloaded without hesitating. When I started the game, a kind of unfamiliar voice said ''Bushiroad'' and I kinda got confused when I saw 9 completely different girls on my starting screen.

When I saw that they were called ''Aqours'' I immediatly looked them up and found out that there has been a new season that I haven't seen yet! I got all hyped up and watched it all during one single night again. My best girl quickly became Mari.

I then started to cospaly Mari, which was also the start of a new group of friends that I've met at a con! We became really good friends just because of Mari, and I'm thankful to this day.

I've began to collect all kinds of Love Live! Merch; from Figurines to T-Shirts, Badges, Posters, Keychains and Nesoberis... There's almost nothing in my room that isns't Love Live! I even keep some of the girls with me at school, on my bag, my folders or on my pencil case!

When season 2 came out, I watched each episode the day it came out. I was so hyped each time a new episode came out. During that time, my best girl had varied a lot too. It went from Mari to Chika, from Chika to Dia and eventually from Dia to Riko.

I empathize with Riko a lot since we both play the piano. I could understand her struggles so well. My fear of dogs also kind of reflected in her. I felt so close to Riko! That's why I gave myself the nickname Riko a long time ago. I've been called riko for a long time now and it makes me really happy.

Through Love Live!, I've got to meet some of my dearest friends. Without Love Live!, I wouldn't have met all these nice people I talk to everyday. Without Love Live!, I probabaly would've given up a long time ago, but their voices always made me push forward, especially Nozomi and Riko.

I love all the girls as they all never fail to cheer me up with their beautiful voices and unique personalities. Whenever I feel sad, I listen to Nozomi's solo album, it cheers me up a lot and I love her a lot.

Aqours makes me especially happy and all of their songs are just amazing. I've laerned a lot of their dances and eventually learned some songs on the piano, such as My Mai tonight or Yozora wa nandemo shitteru no.

And with this, my long Love Live! story ends! I hope it wasn't too boring and that you maybe enjoyed it a little bit if you've actually read all of it~

(Sorry for the Low Quality Pic lol, I just quickly took it to show some of my stuff)

The one thing that has always bugged me about Love Live is why they never showed what happened to Yukiho and Alisa’s idol group that they made at Otonokizaka to continue Muse’s legacy. They keep adding all these new spinoffs and stuff but they could really expand on this idea since Yukiho and Arisa are already characters that have established personalities that would be perfect to build and expand upon. Anyways, enjoy this edit of what I think Yukiho would look like as an idol :)

does anyone else ship yohamaru here? ;_;

How did I get into LoveLive and what it means to me?

It's a story I most definitely love to tell and will never forget because thinking back; it's just so entertaining and special to me.

It started before I even knew what a LoveLiver was.(I was a little new to the internet and it's slang). I was also very new to anime; only have watched K-On, Squid Girl, and a bit of Ouran Highschool Host Club because of my older sister. Because of those things, I GUESS it was, like, my awakening to liking girls but I just DIDN'T know😂. At that time, I was REALLY into My Little Pony and Tumblr was VERY filled with the MLP fans so I occasionally looked at tumblr posts of MLP art and such. But then one day I stumbled across a fanart of EliUmi and my dense mind awakened and thought "WOWOWOWOWOW THAT'S SO CUTE. THEY LOOK CUTE TOGETHER. WHAWHAWHA--" and looked through the EliUmi tag having the thought that they were POPULAR and ORIGINAL OC CHARACTERS ON TUMBLR. After going on and on secretly looking at pure EliUmi fanart, I realized they are from a show called "LoveLive", so of COURSE I checked it out! Pretty sure I was kind of disappointed that they weren't the main protagonists(like Honoka protagonist level), but for some reason I continued watching it anyway. The genre, plot, everything was new to me. I thought, "This is super different but not different from K-On or MLP!!??". and through that, I ended up finishing the series.

I was very hooked to the series(still am!) so I was sad that I finished everything; but throughout my journey I find out about the seiyuus, enjoyed the niconamas subbed and posted on YouTube, and was overjoyed hearing a new group is coming along to LoveLive!(Aqours), that's when I decided to change my once an MLP Instagram account- to a LoveLive fanpage and strive from there!

LoveLive means alot to me because it widened my experiences and my enjoyment. I admire the characters very much and I probably wouldn't be the person I am today without this franchise. The show, casts, and performances, encourages me to keep moving forward despite alot of major bumps along the road. Honestly, I can't even IMAGINE who I'd be without LoveLive!! I can't thank LL enough for all it's inspired me to do and take. Thank you, friends!🌈

How did everything start, huh?

I remember it as if it was yesterday~

It all started back in 2015. I had my boyfriend staying over for the weekend. While I was cooking, he was playing this weird game (or so I thought at the time) on his tablet. I had no idea what SIF nor Love Live! was at all. I remember he was playing a Score Match and got Niko puri♥Joshi dou in Expert. He almost FC'd it and got second place, iirc. "That song is so stupid!" I thought when I heard it. In fact, from the little bit I saw of him playing, I disliked Nico!

Fast-forward to a couple of weeks later~ My dad announced he didn't want his tablet anymore so he was going to sell it. I pleaded for him to let me have it instead and he accepted. As soon as I got a hold of it, I found myself downloading SIF. EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T LIKE IT. I chose Honoka as my starter partner and the first song I tried playing was... None other than Nico's solo!! And then I just... Fell in love with the game. I quickly warmed up to Maki and Nico too! After playing for a few days, I decided to watch the anime series too. Both Maki and Nico grew even more on me~

Then we got Aqours! Mari was my favorite by a long shot, with her listening to Rock and Metal music, just like me~ But as of recently, I've noticed my love for Chika grow and grow and grow! I identify with her in a way I've never identified with any anime/game character before and she easily became my top best girl ;;

All of this has led me through Sukutomo and its community and enabled me to meet a bunch of amazing people. Some I consider close friends. And now it brought me here. Hoping to meet even more wonderful people!

Thank you Love Live! for being such a big part in my life~ ♥

What’s your Love Live! story?

My Love Live! story started back in August of 2018. I’m still pretty new as you can see, but I don’t think that makes me less of a fan than the veterans. I’m not a fan of Aqours and I never got to see μ's disband. I never got to feel any bond with μ's and Aqours because by the time I had joined the community, the hype was already long gone. It was a weird time for Love Live fans, as it also felt like Aqours was starting to die down. That’s how I became a fan of the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. TOKIMEKI Runners’ album preview had been posted on YouTube and I was HOOKED. I didn’t care for any of the girls, but I was in love with the music. One song in particular that I remember liking a lot was... Evergreen. One thing that you should know is that back then, I hated Emma. I didn’t have a reason to, but I just did. I loved making fun of her and calling her “Irrelevant Emma.” That’s why I’m blaming this past year on that song.

Within the next month, TOKIMEKI Runners had become available to purchase and my Nozomi Instagram account had turned into an Emma account. I bought the album and grew to love even the songs I hadn’t cared for earlier, but the song I listened to most was Evergreen.

A few more months went by, but I was starting to feel a bit lonely. I had all of this love for Emma and NijiGaku but I had no one to actually talk to about it. None of my friends in real life cared about it and I was too scared to talk to people. That’s when Emma changed my life: I made a group chat on Instagram. This chat was small, but the few people that were in it felt the same way about NijiGaku as I did. My real life had gotten boring and repetitive because of school and the like, but they made me excited to wake up in the morning. Talking to those people helped me talk to other people. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be on Idol Story right now. Thanks to them, I’m not afraid to reach out to people and bond with them over Love Live.

Since then, my Instagram account has grown. I’ve made some mistakes, but I’ve made so many amazing friends that I talk to today. I’ve even found people in real life who know what NijiGaku is! Emma has also helped me through the worst times of the year, where the sky was always gray and every day was just the same as the day before. She always gave me something to look forward to, whether it be new content or friends to talk to. Emma makes me feel a sense of accomplishment. She feels like the character embodiment of everything I’ve accomplished in the past year, and I wish I could thank her for that.

She really did heal my minus ions.

Hiya, I'm Mitsuru, 29 years old and a married, crazy cat mum of five. I first saw Love Lives Snow Halation at a anime convention in 2010? 2011? Idk, and I liked the song but I've never heard what it was and so it slipped my mind. Fast forward to 2013 I was asked if I want to join a Pokémon RGP, and whilst searching for a befitting icon I stumbled upon Maki Nishikino, and I was instantly in love and picked her for my RPG icon. But it was until the start of 2015 when a friend came to visit me and showed me Love Live. I immediately downloaded it, fell instantly again for Maki and drove too deep into the idol hell. When I encountered Ensemble Stars in the start of 2016 i lost track of LL a bit but Maki never cheased to amaze me, and with Aqours i found my daughter in Riko. I stopped playing LL at the end of 2016, but since the beginning of this year i'm back at my SIF game, so SIFAS came at the right time. Sadly neither Maki, nor Riko or Setsuna wanting to come home.;; My best girls are as stated Maki, Riko and Setsuna, but I like many more, like Nico, You, Ayumu, Nozomi, Yohane, Ai, etc.

Anyways, I'm very active on Twitter at @mitsukinaga, and there's also my Sifasintro thread: https://twitter.com/mitsukinaga/status/1176972564951916548?s=19 I don't have many Love Live friends so I would be so happy to meet new people!

;;hi! ( ᵕ ᵕ̩̩ ) some of you might know me as kanandaily on ig, or by my main thesadvybes. decided i'd introduce myself;;

• i'm a HUGE kanan oshi and i literally love her with all of my being, i can and will die for her.
• my second best girl is kotori! i love her a whole lot and she recently became second best!
• my best pdp girl is kanata, but kasumi is a close second! i love them a lot!
• near the end of 2016 i stopped playing sif and just all together dropped love live. thankfully, i rejoined the community in 2018 because of happy party train!
• my favorite µ's song is datte datte aa mujou and my favorite aqours song is happy party train!
• favorite subunits are lily white and guilty kiss!
• i have other interests, but my mains are love live and bandori; my best bandori girl is chisato

;;some stuff about me:

• my name is mallory
• i'm a sophomore in high school
• hedgehogs are my favorite animal
• i make card edits, they're posted on kanandaily!
• i LOVE all things horror/psychological, horror is my favorite tv/movie genre
• boku no hero academia is my second favorite anime franchise (first being ll!)

;; ty for reading, i hope we can get along (ᐥ꒳ᐥ ) ♡

If you could create a new subunit out of all 27 girls of All Stars, who would you put together? Who would be the leader and what kind of songs would they sing?

I would pick Chika, Maki and Ai Their subunit would be named ChiMaI (contains a part of their names) Maki would be the leader and their songs would kinda sound like songs of TrySail (it's an amazing trio, if you don't know them, check them out, their song Coding is a good example of how I imagine ChiMaI's songs to be) ).

Hello,

I'm electman23. I discovered Love Live back in 2013. My favorite idols are Kotori, Yoshiko, and Umi. I collect merchandise for Love Live. I'll be waiting for the ww release of all stars before playing.

My instagram is electman23 for anyone interested

Nice to meet everyone 😀

My love live story goes likes this

I joined the fandom May of this year. I started watching the anime. Then I found out about the game which made me like rhythm games.

What got me hooked on Love live is the characters, the music, live shows and pretty much everything.

Thank you for reading

Hoi! SupernovaDia here~ I just felt like sharing my cosplay here as Well since there already are some amazing cosplayers on here! I'll cosplay Autumn Kanan soon, so stay tuned for that~