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Get excited, everyone!! 🤩🤩🤩

The global release of All Stars is officially available for pre-registration!! You can head to your respective app store now to pre-register! The app is listed for release around February 25, though an official release date has yet to be announced.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/love-live-all-stars/id1487089454

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klab.lovelive.allstars.global

TO ALL THE RIN STANS OUT THERE I HAVE SOME NEWS!!!!! RIN IS MY NEW BEST GIRL! I appreciate her so much ♥︎♥︎ sorry Nozomi, I still love you!

IT’S MY BABY’S BIRTHDAY!!! I really wish I could add more than one photo, because along with this art I drew for Emma, I also made a cake that I wish I could show you 🥺

I’ve been waiting since Feb. 6th, 2019 for this day. Like, I’m not even joking, I remember saying to myself “I wish it was February 5th...” I remember being so surprised by all of the love and support that Emma got on her birthday. This year, when I posted this art on Twitter, I even noticed that her birthday tag was number 8 in trending in Japan!

A lot has happened in between last Feb. 5th and this Feb. 5th. We got Love U My Friends, 1st Live, an ANIME announcement, a neso announcement, and unfortunately, a whole load of punishment drawings. The point is, the amount of growth that occurred in the past year has been insane. I’m so glad that I’ve been able to stick by Emma’s side during all of this. To be honest, I’ve never loved a character as much as I love Emma. All of the characters that I used to like, I got sick of within a year or maybe even less than that. This is why I believe that Emma is truly special. I will continue to support her so I can be around next February 5th!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA, I LOVE YOU 💚💚💚🎂🎉

Well um since everyone is writing about they're dive into idol hell I might as well.

Here goes nothing...

So last February, I just got out of an obsession, and I needed something to do with my life. I didn't know what to do with all this free time I had. I'd say we're in late April. One day I was scrolling on Tik Tok and I saw the Hit or Miss dance. I was like "woah wheres that girl from?" and so I did some research and realized she was from Love Live. I wanted to watch it so bad but I ddin't know where to watch it.

A couple weeks later I saw the first episode on YouTube, so I watched it there. I honestly forgot about it because there was only one episode.

A couple more weeks pass, and I notice my brother is watching an anime that I "watched" a long time ago. I asked him where he was watching it from and so I used the same website as him. Before I was going to start watching it, I went to check if Love Live was on there. And, it just happened to be there. I noticed there were two. I didn't know which one to pick, so I chose the one I saw on Tik Tok.

At that time I became more invested into the one my brother was watching, and less Love Live. I still watched it, I guess I was too obsessed with the other one.

When I finished the one my brother had watched, I decided I would go back and watch Love Live again. Watching it the second time really hit me hard. But, Love Live at the time was just a little show.

After all that, since I watched the first series, I was watching Love Live Sunshine. I really honestly connected to the characters and I knew what Chika was feeling. After watching Love Live sunshine, I felt more connected to school idols, like I wanted to be one and feel what Chika was wanting to feel all along.

So um yeah lol I'm kinda new in this Love Live franchise, and I feel kinda bad because all these people have know about Love Live since 2010 so um but yeah. I honestly lost count how many times I cried watching this show and how many times I've watched it. Sadly, I haven't gotten around to watch Love Live Sunshine's movie :(

Lol I'm sorry this is kinda long

Ruby dance dance Ruby dance

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NOZOMI UR I SCREAMED WHILE MAKING A VIDEO

What's your Love Live! story?

NGL it's totally lengthy because I've gone through a lot of different phases with Love Live!

Before Aqours came into the picture, I saw my brother playing SIF, which prompted me to check it out for myself. I had no clue what the franchise was about, or the game for that matter, but I played it anyways because hey, cute anime girls right? Eventually my brother watched SIP himself and I wasn't interested around at all during those times so I skipped out on SIP. I did end up watching the SIP Movie with him, but I felt like I had a distinct disconnection from the franchise since I had barely seen anything from SIP itself.

Aqours rolled into the picture and since it was completely new, I could latch onto that much easier than I did with Muse. I did exactly that, but it didn't hit me as hard as I thought it would. I had read a lot from others about how Love Live! was great, but I still didn't see why myself. It was pretty confusing and although I felt those feelings arise in S2 of Sunshine, it wasn't exactly what I thought it would be.

Despite all of this, I still had SIF downloaded because it was the only thing keeping me committed to the franchise. I don't know how, I don't know why (maybe I'm addicted to gacha games), but SIF is one of the few factors in my life that made me want to be consistent with something, which is why I constantly thought about Love Live! as time went on.

Fast forward to about early 2018, I was interested in watching Love Live! again because of the Sunshine Movie coming eventually. I set off to start with the bare basics of Muse and to put it bluntly, it was radically different than I what remembered. My view of Love Live! completely changed after watching SIP since I had seen what kind of blossoming story it was. Some of those scenes are burned into my memory now, some of them aren't, but most importantly? I finally understood what made each character from Love Live! so lovable. Specifically, I used to not really like Nico due to her mannerisms but after watching SIP I realized that she really was trying her best the whole time. And sometimes, even your best doesn't work out for those around you. But hey, what can you do? That was the kind of striking idealism I found within Nico that I admire to this day.

Then I got onto watching Sunshine again. I actually understood how deep the plot of S1 went this time, which made the character developments much more amusing to me. Similarly, I understood the girls a lot more this time, but at the time I was really struggling with my own personal growth. Specifically, it was my motivation on things that I wanted to do, and I became excessively lazy in pursuing my own interests. My productivity dipped hard and I didn't have much to believe on why I should work hard for myself. S1 of Sunshine made me reconsider what I had previously thought. Chika's development as a character resonates with me today since I still remember her quote of “It’s not if you can or can’t do it. What matters is if you want to do it.” Along with that, it amazed me how someone "normal" could be doing something so extraordinary. It radiates a lot when those that are "normal" of people can do anything, doesn't it?

S2 of Sunshine hit a different toll for me as it was proof that happy endings don't always come nicely packaged. Even so, Chika made me realize that if things don't turn out as you wanted them to, you can achieve more things from trying than not. With this, I found motivation in myself, and every now and then I remind myself of the whole Zero-to-one thing, because it's true. "From zero to one and from one to something even greater!" is what I say whenever I want to start something new since you never know how far you'll get.

I like Love Live! a lot and it's thanks to Chika and Nico that I found the me that I want to be instead of the me that I can be.

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