How did I get into Love Live! and what does it mean to me?

I'm a 16 year old girl living in Scotland! I've been a fan of Love Live! for just under 2 years.

I got into Love Live! through my friends, who were huge fans of the anime and were pretty good at the game! I was at one of their houses and they made me listen to a huge compilation of Love Live! music, and I loved the style so I went home and watched the anime. I got into the game shortly afterwards, and grinded so I could do a few steps of Hanayo's birthday scout. (Ironically Hanayo is my worst girl, but due to association with a toxic person in my life rather than me disliking her character!)

Kotori was my favourite from the start. I loved her character design (I'm an artist if you couldn't tell!) and her soft and happy demeanour. I cosplayed Kotori a few months afterwards, and doing so helped me embrace my femininity and I now love wearing cute dresses!

Fast forward on maybe a year. I had a tainted view of Aqours as one of my friends was a hardcore µ's fan and hated anything to do with Aqours. I knew little about Sunshine but I knew that Ruby was my worst girl as I hated her signature catchphrase and how people would spam it during events on SIF. Despite this I took the plunge and watched Sunshine as I wanted to see why my friend hated it so much.

My eyes were opened to the world of Aqours and Ruby quickly became my best girl. Sunshine came at a good time for me, as around the time I was watching Sunshine, my older sister was nearing the end of high school. Her and I are incredibly close, so Ruby and Dia's relationship always resonated with me. But when I watched the episode where Ruby shows her fears about Dia leaving school, it was like watching myself on a screen. Ruby had all the same fears that I had, and it was incredibly comforting to watch her overcome those fears. I wanted to prove to my big sister that I could look after myself, just like Dia did. At this point Ruby overtook Kotori as my best girl. I see a lot of myself in her.

This year I took my first ever exams. I'm a very anxious person so this was terrifying to me, as I'm sure it is for many others. I had to deal with a death in my family during my exams, but Love Live! was always there for me. On the day of my results, I listed to Step! ZERO to ONE, to remind myself that whatever happened that day, there was always hope, and I would move forward.

Ruby is now my go to cosplay (with my big sister as Dia of course <3) and I love the Love Live! community within Scotland! Everyone is so kind!

Sorry if this was too long! Please hmu if you want to be friends, I love meeting people in the Love Live! Community!

Hi everyone! I'm Vert and I have been a Love Live fan since 2015. My best girls are Nico, Hanayo, Mari, Yohane and Rina. I really like drawing and cosplaying a lot, and I'm part of a Love Live dance group named AiRis (airisdolls on Instagram, I would really appreciate it if you check out our account ♥). And that's all for now, thanks for reading! ♥♥♥

Hello! It's really good to be here! My name is Callum, I'm from the UK and I've been into Love Live for about a year and a half now since March 2018.

I originally engaged with Love Live by making fun of it with my sister, who hated it(and still does). Naturally this lead me to find Love Live memes, and these got me to watch both seasons of SIF and Sunshine, even if it was just an ironic watch at first. In March 2018 I downloaded SIF out of curiosity and genuinely enjoyed it. I haven't been the same since! My sister got me a Nico figurine as a joke for my birthday this year, but unbeknownst to her I absolutely treasure it. (I don't know how she's going to react if she ever finds out)

I don't hate any of the characters, but my favourites are Umi and Yoshiko. I admire Umi's work ethic, politeness and singing voice, and I took up Archery because of her! I admire Yoshiko's journey of finding people she feels comfortable being herself around, because it's what I want to do in regards to my autism. I'm leaning towards Ai, Setsuna or Karin for the Niji girls, but I won't know for sure until All Stars gets an English release.

I'm looking forward to taking part in this new community. I hope everyone has a good day!

Since I am new to this, I suppose I should tell my LoveLive story. It goes back to 2016, I was getting sick of the music I was listening to and asked my friends from Discord if they can recommended Paradise Live, that I should also give LoveLive a shot.

I was not a idol fan. Metal or rock was more of my thing.

I reluctantly agreed, I had nothing to do so I gave it a go.

And now three years later, I fell to idol hell and now a little demon. How simple things that really drag you somewhere you never taught you'd go.

-Nero Sparda, The Deadweight

The fact these two can look so awesome even tho in such different locations scare me. Yep.

Sorry for the sucky extraction. Like they didn't have extracted cards yet so i extracted it myself lol

Hi I'm Hana,I'm 15 and I've been a fan of Love Live for about 2 1/2 years now.

• My Best Girls are You,Maki,and Umi but I also love Dia and Ruby.
• For Nijigaku, I am currently planning to read all the stories once EN comes out but I like Shizuku and Rina rn
• My SIFAS ID is 777 179 151,plz friend me I have no friends on my acc
• I like drawing a lot and binging anime in my room
• I am also into Pokemon,Kirby,and I am a fan of anything animated!

also you plz come home

Fair warning, this is a long read.

Hi, my name’s James but online I normally go by my handle Hammy45 or just Hammy. I’m a male, He/Him, 27, from regional NSW in Australia. I’m a reserved person and not particularly outgoing but make no mistake, I love this franchise. My top 3 characters for each group in order are:

μ’s: Kotori, Honoka, Umi Aqours: Ruby, Riko, Hanamaru Nijigasaki: Shizuku, Ayumu, Setsuna

As for favourite songs, it’s a bit more difficult as there are so many good ones but I’ll just list a few for each group:

μ’s: Yume no Tobira; Bokutachi no Hitotsu no Hikari; Natsu, Owaranai de; Arifureta Kanashimi no Hate Aqours: Kokoro Magic A to Z (I know it’s not released yet but dammit it’s a good song); Yozora wa Nandemo Shitteru no?; WONDERFUL STORIES; WHITE FIRST LOVE Nijigasaki: CHASE; Yume e no Ippo; Anata no Risou no Heroine; Meccha Going!!

Now the story part. I think this is the first time I’ve told my full story anywhere. I got into Love Live around 2014. I was skimming through Crunchyroll for something to watch and I came across a show called “Love Live! School Idol Project” (I think the second season had just ended at this point). As soon as the OP started, I was taken aback. I had never seen anything quite like it, I even watched Glee back in the day. By the end of the third episode with 2nd years only START:DASH!!, I was completely sold on the show; costumes, music and everything. I think I rewatched both seasons multiple times, played SIF a fair bit and even went out of my way to see the movie when a screening came to Sydney. After the movie, I started to waver on the franchise and eventually succumbed to the “This show isn’t made for you” feeling I was getting and made a decision to give up on it.

Around Aqours second season I saw LL pop up in my Twitter feed and realised my love for this franchise and it’s characters never disappeared. I started to marathon everything again and caught up around Awaken the Power. I had taken a particular liking to Ruby ever since the first Aqours episode, so this was a particularly special episode for me. I absolutely adored the growth that she had achieved in that time and the heartwarming relationship she and Dia had with each other.

Ever since then, I’ve tried to keep up on almost everything the franchise has to offer, including the introduction of the Nijigasaki girls. I’m currently playing EN SIF (currently rank 193), JP All Stars and I’ll play EN All Stars when it gets released (I still don’t know if I’ll keep playing JP when it happens yet). This has literally taken me hours to write and several rereads so if you’ve made it this far, I want to thank you so much for reading this.

Hi there! My name is Juno, I’m 21, and I’m from New York. I’ve been into Love Live since I watched the anime back in 2015 and was hooked immediately. I started playing SIF around then, and later branched out to other Bushiroad franchises (BanG Dream, Revue Starlight, etc). My favorite music genre is vaporwave and its subgenres and my favorite album is Infinity Frequencies’ Computer Afterlife. I have had a history of being a whale for cards I like, but I’ve gotten my spending under control. I’m looking forward to meeting you all!

Hi everyone! My name is Azeku, and I am so excited for the opening of idol.st! I am a huge Love Live fan, and have been playing Sukusuta a lot for the last couple weeks. I hope we can all get along! よろしく！

I'm new here, barely getting the ropes, but Nico Yazawa is my number one idol in the universe. <3

Hello Friends! I'm Simi and I've been a Love Live fan for over two years now, I still can't believe it's been that long! This platform looks very interesting and I'm hoping to make some new friends on here!

My faves are You, Chika, Setsuna, Honoka and Eli (It's rly hard for me to pick sometimes)!

I hope to have a great time and make nice friends one here!!

Heylo! Im Karinmaki (or Aka, whichever works!) Im a young furry artist who likes Love Live and many other franchises! I like doing character impressions and I'm a proud neso mom ;w; I got into love live when i was in late 3rd grade, i played the game when only muse was in it. I later found out in early 4th that they had an anime, and i tried watching it. I truely enjoyed it. I then found out about Aqours, and i fell in LOVE with them. I was part of the game and anime franchise until i found out about the seiyuu in mid-5th grade. I loved Suwa, SOSO MUCH- Aqours and Muse has done so much for me and im happy SIFAS is out now. G'day, Minna!