I got into Love Live School Idol Project from a random notification on Crunchyroll. (I think I was around 11 or 12 years old at the time) I thought I’d give the anime a watch since I’d always been into slice of life, so I binged the whole series and the movie in two days like any weeb would do. After I finished watching the series, I kind of just never watched it again. I was on YouTube one day and the first subbed episode of Love Live Sunshine came up on my recommendation screen. I remembered watching Love Live about two months before, so I was kind of surprised that a whole other season existed that I didn’t know about. Aqours was what officially got me into the Love Live franchise. I’m not really sure why it had a bigger impact on me than Muse did, but maybe it was the fact that I could keep up with new song releases and anime episodes because when I discovered Aqours, they only had completed their first season. For Christmas last year, I ended up buying myself my first jumbo Chika nesoberi, and attending my first screening of an Aqours concert which was their fourth live. (It was a bit awkward though because a lot of people there were grown men and there was me, a 12 year old girl just sticking out like a sore thumb lol) Overall, I’m very grateful to have found a cool community that circles around uplifting characters. ☆彡

I have already explained on Sukutomo on how I got into the Love Live fandom but I want to go more deeper into that! Anyways here we go!

#What's your Love Live! story?

In 2017, I was an intense Roblox player, The servers I normally played were RHS (Roblox High School), This one Roblox neighborhood game that I forgot the name of, But, I slowly stopped playing them because I came across this ONE server, It was where you could walk around as an anime character and turn yourself into images of anime characters (Or also known as decals) and just...Be an anime character! I played this game so much! One day, I ran into this one girl who had her image as Emma Verde. I immediately recognized the art style and decided to make my character walk over to her. I told her "Hey." and asked what series that was from. She said it was from "Love Live" and it was one of the newest idols. I decided to friend her and we role played a lot, I borrowed some decals from her. We first roleplayed something like Kotori and Umi going to the beach (I think? idk) and we did Ruby and Dia going to school together (I forgot the rest of the roleplay scene) and then we did a scene where we made out decal images of the Ball Set and I made up random words to try and make a song. I then looked up Love Live and saw all 9 μ's members. A week later, I met another girl, She had a decal of Halloween Rin SR, I recognized the art style again! I talked to her and noticed her name (I forgot what it was ;-; but it was funny) I told her that character looked so beautiful! After that, I then watched the School Idol Project episodes. Unfortunately, I couldn't finish the full anime because there wasn't any episode's I could watch. I loved Nozomi and Umi, I wanted to know everything about Nozomi immediately wanted to know everything about her! I looked up her story about before she became an idol and met Eli, It was so sad. I honestly wanted to cry. And to this day Nozomi is still very best girl and I love her!

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I later discovered Sukutomo, I checked EVERY girls cards, event's, songs! I looked at everything! I listened to "Bokura no live kimi to no life", "Bokura wa ima no naka de", "Korekara no someday" and "Snow Halation". Those songs are so beautiful! I then found out that each girl had some kind of center. I looked to see if Nozomi had a center, and she did! I listened to "Dancing stars on me!", and it was one of my favorite songs, (And it still is!) I listened to that song on replay because it is so amazing! On Roblox, I started using some Love Live decals that I found, I used those two girls icons too, I started uploading my own so that I could use them myself! I then gathered up some friends who knew the anime and we role played on the anime server, and the topic was: μ's had disbanded and they all went to college, But the twist was.. Only Eli, Nozomi, Hanayo, and Maki, went to the same college, I roleplayed as Hanayo, And Hanayo was sad that Rin didn't go to the same college as her, Eli noticed that she was sad and got a solution: She was going to leave the college so that her and Rin could switch colleges so Hanayo could see Rin. The next day, Rin showed up in the same hallway as Hanayo, and she ran up to Rin and hugged her. (I forgot what the ending was ;-;) I always used Love Live decals for Roblox anime roleplay. I, unfortunately, left Roblox later on. I then signed up for Sukutomo. This was my first Sukutomo account. After that, I started playing SIF, My first UR was Eli's Birthstone card, and my first SR was Snowboarding Rin. It wasn't long after that when I got my first Nozomi SR, It was her PoolV2 SR, and I still have her in my deck to this day! I was so exiceded to Idolized her. I then made a post about a Naruto character I loved because it was his birthday. I then forgot my password and I had no way of remembering it, I never wrote it down. I then signed up and made a second account. This one is the one I use. And I remembered to write down my password so I could log in easily and remember it. My first post was about whenever I am listening to music and playing SIF and when I hit the "Play Live" button and I had Halloween Hanamaru UR set and I would always hear: "Aqours no stage, tanoshi no hoshi, zura!", I added my SIF account to the bottom of my profile. It was on Halloween when I did my first edit. I did it for my Naruto OC's birthday. I did it on a app called "Sketch", It was soon that I bought my first Nendoroid and it was Training outfit Nozomi. I took 2 pictures of her, one with her holding a flower and one with her camera prop. Although, at my first comic-con they were selling Love Live merch there. I saw a Maki Nesoberi and Love Live pins and buttons. I saw a Nozomi pin and immediately bought it. Although I had no idea where to put it I just put it on my dresser. I bought dancing stars on me Maki, Eli, and Umi and put them on my cork board. Anyways, Not maybe 2 or 3 months later, I had bought my Kanan Nendoroid, I love this so much! my favorite expression was the blushing expression and the hand on hip expression.

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This bassically wraps up how I got into this beautiful fandom!

I have drawn Love Live fan art and do have more Love Live merch, And I will share those later on. I love this series/fandom so much, 3 years of being a fan of the Love Live series. I love μ's, Aqours and Nijigasaki. I love music, and this has defiantly changed my taste in music and I love anime! I love celebrating my best girls birthdays and seeing birthday posts. Such as other girls birthday posts other people have done! I love seeing Love Live fan art and do get excited about it. I have never explained this but, the username I have "NoziKano" is a mash up of Nozomi and Kanan. Nozomi's part of my name is, well, "Nozi" just without the "om" part, and Kanan's part was "Kano" so I combinded my best girls names together to get BAM "Nozikano"! Anyways, I am so glad I could finally share my story on how I got into this amazing fandom. And I am so happy I found this series!

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Hello! My name is EndlessSkyPride or Nicolas, maybe you've seen me on BanPa, and today i'm here to tell you my LL! story, even though i'm not an All Stars player yet (you see, too many new stuff in japanese...). I'm trying to develop my english but it's still bad, so my text is gonna be bad too but anyway, lets try!

It was 2014, how i can remember. I was watching random YouTube anime videos and found a funny LL! video. Then i found an anime, and decided to watch it. My first love was Eli... just because. A love at first sight. Then i was watching 2nd season as ongoing. Of course i like it! Then i found out Love Live wiki and started to listen Love Live songs.

In the fall of the same year I started to play sif. Just found it in the LL group on the one russian site. I played EN version, I remember it was 1st score match with Maki (oh shi-- it's so nostalgic), and then i downloaded jp version too and played both for a long time. It was very fun! My 2015 summer is still my best summer, and one of the reasons is how much i spent in sif!

In 2016, i played less and less, i don't know... just it was not until this. But I continued to follow up LL news, and yes, here comes Aqours! When i first heard about them i didn't get interested, tbh. But then, when both music and anime came up I undersood: i love them. I still love Ruby and Riko more than anyone from μ's and... i thought their music was a bit more interesting in some way?

LL brought me a lot of pleasant memories, and I appreciate it.

My Story with Love Live~!

It's taken me a while to finally get this posted but it's time for me to have a lil trip back through my journey with this amazing franchise!

Back in September 2015, I had only heard of Love Live though some memes but I didn't know much about it. However, I had followed an Instagram account (it was a pokemon fan account at the time) that began to post some llsif related things every so often such as account updates and pictures of event cards that they had obtained. The game looked cute, so on September 17th 2015, I made the jump into idol hell and downloaded the en server of llsif.

Not gonna lie, I was terrible at first. I loved rhythm games like guitar hero but it took me a while to get the timing down! I read through each character's bios (only muse at this time!) and I remember being stuck between Eli and Nozomi but I went for Eli just because she had the same hair/eye colour lmao-

The event that was on at this time was the Forever Friends Umi event and well,,, I didn't get terribly far as I didn't know how it worked. I only unlocked up to the second story part before the event ended and I remember being super dejected as I wanted to know why Honoka ran away, but it simply was too late. I only recently got to finally finish the story with the release of the story key items and I was super happy about it~

The first event that I actually got the card from was the Harvest Goddess Hanayo one. I absolutely fell in love with her design and while I knew I'd never be able to tier to get her idolised (ah, the days before seals/stickers) but nonetheless I did my best to get her so maybe I could idolise her in the future. I was s o proud of myself when I finally got her and set her as my partner to "show off" even if it really wasn't that impressive.

As for the first event I tiered in, it was the bathrobe Nozomi one! By this time I had gotten to know the girls through the stories (and I had watched the anime now) and had fully decided on Nozo as my best girl. Therefore, I was determined to tier for her in the next event that she starred in. It took a lot of time and love gems (especially considering my weak teams) but in the end I landed in tier 3 and couldn't be more happy. I set her as my partner for a g e s after that, even after I got my first UR.

Speaking of first UR, I had the worst luck when I started. I never saved so I lived off solo yolos and ended up getting my first scouted SR (halloween Umi) about a month after I started! Even worse, it took me more than a year to get my first UR, Pool Eli! (Umi was later sold by a friend who I had gotten into love live. I gave them my phone so they could see my cards and they sold around 20 "as a joke" and I was s o upset,, I'm still working to get them back even now! Thankfully Umi herself did return and I made sure to idolise her as soon as I could as an apology of sorts.

From then on I just got better at the game, I learned about team structure and different event types and strategies, and my account grew! In this time so much happened, saved up gems for Nozomi's birthday, Aqours was put into the game and I adopted Mari as my best Aqours girl, I downloaded the jp server so I could see new cards and features quicker (but I still focused on my en more), I bought merch, I started actually interating with the community and I watched as much ll media as I could, all the anime seasons, OVAs and movies.

I played Puchiguru tons as well, and was totally devastated when it was closed. As someone who doesn't own any nesoberi's, I found it to be a super cute way to make up for the nesoberi-shaped hole in my heart.

And now, with the release of PDP and sifas, I'm still as invested in the series as ever! I'm still juggling between Kanata and Rina as my favourite PDP girl but I love all of the new girls who have joined the ll universe. I adore seeing all the new cards and I've even (finally) got around to trying to learn about the seiyuu out of respect for everything they've brought us.

That pokemon fan account that first introduced me to love live has moved on but I am still here in the love live community, 4 years later! I still play the en and jp servers of llsif and I'm thoroughly enjoying play sifas as well, I'm super excited to see how it develops!

I love seeing how far my account has grown (I was going to add progress pictures but I cant seem to work out how to add multiple ones RIP) and I hope that no one found this post too boring!

μ'sic forever~!

Hi! So my love live journey probably starts with...my friend! We’re not friends anymore because she ended up being quite toxic but my love for this series still remains! One day we were sitting in a park and she asked me if I wanted to watch her scout! It was for the summer maru SSR, but unfortunately she didn’t get her. So I got the game, played it briefly, soloed quite a bit, and decided it wasn’t for me. Thats until one day, there was an azalea box and I soloed per usual...and out came circus kanan! I was so shocked and happy, and it prompted me to play more. This would spiral into me becoming good at SIF, watching both the muse and aqours anime, and then getting my first neso! (snow halation kotori). One day, this friend who got me into love live went on a confession account and asked if there were any fans who lived on Long Island! A dozen or so people said yes, and she would then DM them forming a discord group chat! The chat was extremely fun and everyone was so sweet. Eventually four of us decided to meet up! It was me, my toxic friend, a good friend of mine even if we fell out of touch a bit, and my best friend now! I got really close with one of the girls, and she was so good at love live, and also had a hefty amount of merch. I started getting more merchandise as well, and we’re still super close to this day! Though, now we are more into enstars, love live allowed me to meet this amazing person and I’m so grateful for that!! :)

Hey everyone! My name is Crystal and I'm going to talk about 5 year long idol journey. This is going to be long as hell ,so buckle up and hold onto your jpgs because I'm going to talk about my decent into idol hell.

It all started back in 2014. I was not in the best mental state and to top it all off I was going to a completely new school! Back then I was a shy individual and entering this new school was in no way fun. However, during this time I also got my very first phone a Samsung Galaxy s3. If it wasn't for this phone I would have never started my Love Live journey.

It wasn't until I got my homework done that I got on my phone. Since it was brand new I didn't have much on there. So I went to the Google play store to get some games. So I got basic games like Subway Surfers and simple games like that. Then I went searching for some fun rpg games. I downloaded a game called Brave Frontier and then I saw it. Love Live School Idol Festival. The icon was still Honoka at the time and for some reason I got pulled in. I clicked the icon and when I saw it was a rhythm game I hit the download button immediately. Little did I know what I was getting myself into.

When I first booted up the game I was met with μ's. I at the time had no idea that there was an anime (in fact I didn't watch the anime until 2015) so I chose my best girls based on their hobbies and looks. So I chose my starter was Hanayo! Her cute hair style topped with her hobby of drawing made her my first best girl. Nico was number 1 for overall looks though. I soloed all the time since I didn't know the meaning of saving ,and I didn't participate in events because I didn't really pay attention to them. I played super casually until February 2016. That was when White Day Hanayo came out on World Wide. I couldn't scout because I had no love gems ,so I resorted to begging my father to buy me love gems. Surprisingly he actually did and I was on my way to scout for White Day Hanayo. After it loaded I saw the envelopes come out and lo and behold she came home. She was the only SR+ card I got from that box ,but I didn't care. I had gotten my first UR, White Day Hanayo.

By this time, I had watched the anime. From there I finally found my best girl who is still my best girl to this day. Maki Nishikino. I saw myself in her as she is stubborn, didn't have many friends, and I can be a bit childish at times. From that moment on I wanted to get as many Maki cards as possible to show my support. So I saved for Maki's next UR which so happens to be my dream UR. Circus Maki. The day had come and I didn't get her. In fact I didn't really get anything from my gem. I was devastated but I decided to do a blue ticket. I had gotten a UR! It wasn't Maki though. It was Honoka! Snowy Mountain Honoka to be exact. Of course I could go on for hours and hours talking about my failed and successful scouting attempts. Some of those attempts made me want to quit. Yet for some reason I kept going despite the unfair rates.

Another monumental moment during my journey was Aqours. When they were first introduced I was completely against the group. Because well they were ,in my eyes, replacing μ's! I thought because of them μ's was going to have no more new cards and that no new content was going to be produced for them. I remember when they finally got into the game in 2016. I took a screenshot of the OG Honoka icon as a token of μ's and updated the game to the now well known Chika Icon. I barely participated in the first Aqua event and didn't really give them a chance until my friend (who I introduced Love Live to) and I finally watched Love Live Sunshine. Ever since then I accepted them as equals to μ's.

My Love Live journey has been a long one thats for sure. I have no idea who I would be if Love Live wasn't a part of my life. Because of μ's and Aqua's stories and leaders I branched out. I became more extroverted and met new people and made new friends. Love Live made me feel better about myself and was one of the many reasons I worked to be in a better mental state. Overall, Love Live has made me a better person and I wish to keep it in my life for as long as I possibly can.

whats your love live! story? my love live story began in mid 2015, sometime in summer. my instagram feed was plagued by posts of LLSIF gameplay and related things, and i decided to give the game a shot. i instantly got attached, and began hyperfixating. i watched the anime in early 2016, and began cosplaying LL that year as well. 2017 was the first year i spent money on SIF (lol), which was to buy gems for the hanayo birthday box. hanayo has stuck out to me since the beginning, sticking out to me as i can relate heavily to her character. she will always be my ultimate best girl and hold a special spot in my heart. ive been following the LL franchise closely since 2017 ish, and to this day it remains one of my special interests. im beyond excited to get more development for the pdp/nijigaku girls! i love everyone in the love live community, and i cant wait to meet more like-minded people here and make friends~♡

Hi! I’m a fairly young member of this community :) I think I’ve been watching and playing LoveLive since 2010-2011? Luckily I’ve finally been able to start purchasing merch with the help of my sister! I just kinda found it on the google play store one day it caught me immediately. I love Nozo she’s almost a goddess just to exaggerate. Other best girls are Kanan and Emma. よろしく!

Since everyone is doing it (and I'm kinda doing nothing but be in pain of a stomach ache right now lol), I thought, sure, why not, might as well join in with this as well!

Hi hi, hello, my name is Yuino Sery and I am currently 22 (soon to be 23) years old! I'm a female, bisexual mess from Germany and have been in love with Love Live!, and more specifically µ's, for a whole while now.

I discovered Love Live! back in 2013 when memes from the first season were posted on Anime sites on facebook. I got intrigued, bookmarked the anime but didn't actually watch it until April 2014. I liked the anime a lot, but it didn't click with me until a month later when I saw cosplayers at a local event and got reminded that I even watched the anime! So I rewatched and... suddenly it clicked? By the end I was crying and more emotional and happy than the first time around. I had to hold myself back from watching Season 2 while it was airing at the time, because I prefer binging over seasonal watching! This didn't work for long though considering I decided to go with seasonal watching for Season 2 a week or two in.

Nozomi has been my favourite from the get-go and, once I got more and more into µ's with the rewatch of Season 1 and Season 2 airing, I also got a lot more interested in checking out 'more'. It was around that time I was told the game (SIF EN) released as well! I was hesitant at first since I don't have a feeling for rhythm but slowly went for it after all and... it was a life changer.

See, I've been depressed for as long as I can remember. Life's just kinda been shit, yknow? And I found Love Live in my darkest time. And having something to look forward to (Season 2, the Movie, new Nozomi card releases lol) gave me something to live for and, let's be real, as long as you got something to live for, who cares what it is, right? So I'm real glad I found Love Live, it really saved me. It's also why µ's will forever be important to me.

I've tried with Aqours but it didn't really click and Nijigasaki has been nice so far, so I'll see where I go from here with them. :)

I kinda quit SIF years ago when I found other games to play and where I liked the gameplay more (like deresute), but I'm back in full swing for SIFAS!

Hi! I'm Ana and I'm from Belgium! I first found out about Love Live in April 2019! It isn't that long ago but I loved it! I found it because of memes and YT. I also saw a lot of videos from the Anime. I downloaded the game and started playing! Love Live has made my life so much easier, I used to give up on a lot of things but the characters inspire me to do better and keep going forward. I play the game almost every day and I also shared it with a friend of mine. I'm also a big Dia, You and Yohane stanner! I hope to meet a lot of people like me! - XXX Little_Ani

I got into Love Live back in March of 2016. I became aware of it in maybe the most typical way possible, through Nico Nico nii memes and SiIvagunner. I fell in love with it after that and binged μ's, was happy (and sad) to be a fan when their Final Live happened shortly after. Since then I've stuck with Aqours throughout their journey, bought tons of merch and met lots of friends. I can't be thankful enough for what LL has given me. To this day since 2016 I run a LL music stream called Love Live Radio, where I've met lots of like minded love livers~ I hope to continue supporting Love Live in the future, I'll be cheering on Nijigaku~

My Love Live Story... Started on December 2014. It's been a while ago, huh?

I think I should introduce myself before right? Im Mei. A Spanish girl, and I have a Love Live Story to tell everyone! I was watching a Pokemon stream. And everytime someone followed, the streamer always played "Nico Nico nii!" So I was curious and asked for the anime. When I watched love live, at first it didn't caught my interest. But one day, a month later, I decided to rewatch it. And that's why I'm here today. The second time I watched love live (remember Aqours wasn't a thing back then) I loved muse. Nozomi was my first favourite character, tho now is Honoka. When I watched it, I felt so... Good? I don't know. There was something that made me feel so good. That's how I started singing again, love live motivated me to. I cried a lot when the movie was released, but I knew muse will be there for me for ever. The final live had me on tears. Ucchi even lost her voice if I remember correctly. But even so, there was a part of me that believed muse will come back someday. I started playing the game on August 2016, and I started wondering, "will muse really come back?" So I searched for love live and found KimiKoko's trailer pv. I liked the song but didn't pay attention. I refused to watch sunshine at first (keep in mind that while it was airing I had no idea of that) but eventually I decided to. And God, I don't regret it. Even if I didn't like CHIKA at first, I realized how similar we were. And I loved her with my whole soul. I even won 2nd place on a Chika Fan Contest! When Nijigasaki was first announced (well, those silhouettes on March 2017) I wasn't really interested. But I did know that it had to do something with muse. And if that was true, that means muse coming back as I promised myself 2-3 years ago. I kept looking for info on that but barely found anything, until the characters were revealed. Ayumu has been my best PDP girl from the very start (I wish Coco was there though!). After the announcement, I think I was one of the persons who never complained about SIFAS being delayed. I always saw people complaining and then you had me like "it's fine ;)" When it got relased, well, I can't really say much, it was 2 weeks ago!

Love live motivated me a lot. I own a lot of merch of it too. For finishing this I want to say what's the biggest change love live did on me. remember when I said I started singing again because of love live? Well. Being a singer was my dream when I was like 5. But, since I was 8 to the day, my dream is to be a VA. I could do a 100 pages essay of why I love voice acting and I'll still need more pages. And when I knew that Anchan was struggling so much for being a VA, and ended up making her dream come true... And then Chika dreamed of being an idol and she made it to... It makes me feel like I have a chance to shine as a VA too. So, for Anchan and Chika's, sake I will try to- no... I WILL become a VA someday!

Now, I'll post my merch!

Thanks, Love Live!