What's My Love Live! Story?

My Love Live! Story began in the summer of 2015. I was introduced to Snow Halation's PV simply because I was told I'd like the winter theme. I ended up falling in absolute love, needing to know more about the song/dance I had just finished watching. It was so serene and the song was emotional- the choreography reflected that perfectly so it carried the emotion til the end of the song. I needed to know more!

That's when I watched the anime of it's entirety. μ's seemed like a bunch of girls I wish I knew in real life. They have a chemistry that I adore to this day. Eventually I found myself singing the OP/EDs of the anime and realized "wow, I'm so into this"! I decided not to pick a favourite until I finished watching the anime, because each girl is so unique I wanted them to have decent chances of standing out.

At the end, and mostly because of her episode in season two, Nozomi became my best girl. I reflected on how similar we both are in terms of being a supporting role rather than a leader- and this being okay because we love our friends so much we want to see them grow and lead. Nozomi contributing behind the scenes for μ's stuck out to me because she named the group, and because of one contribution she made- that changed the franchise forever. She really is an example of how one person can make a huge difference. Of course, her past of not being able to maintain friendships (due to her parents moving) and coping with the loneliness, learning to keep to herself, struck a cord hard. This is just some things I saw about Nozomi in the anime alone that made me really like her. She is written in such a way that makes her very realistic, and that sense of realism makes me feel as if I can look up to her. Nozomi became my best girl, my number one girl ever, and I was determined to keep it that way~ I truly love Nozomi so much that I try my best to adore her at least in one way from all of Love Live!'s different medias (whether it be merchandise, music, the anime, manga, etc).

My goodness, I had thought it ended there. I thought that I should read the manga, and continue on as I would since I finished the anime and listened to what I thought were all the songs. I was wrong. I had Googled Nozomi to browse some fanart of her and was amazed by how some of the "fanart" looked so closely to official images. That's when I clicked on the link and discovered Schoolidolu (Sukutomo / School Idol Tomodachi). I was extremely confused. Attributes? Cards? Where did all of this come from? That's how I learned there was a game! I've been hooked ever since~

School Idol Tomodachi was a new chapter for me, and definitely is a big part of my story. In fact, I wouldn't be in this fandom without it. After discovering it, I found the community. There were ACTUAL people talking about the franchise! I didn't feel like I was the only person into Love Live! anymore! I was absolutely thrilled. I thought the first thing I should do is make some friends (which eventually took time as I felt very shy to contribute). I was content, because at the very least I had a place to track my game progress exactly how I wished.

Eventually, I asked about Discord and other social media outlets for Love Live!, and was directed into one. I made friends, and it was my first Discord server that I ever joined. It has site users in it so I was able to chat about Sukutomo, follow friends, talk about the game here and there, and so on~ I was creating friends that I had no idea would impact how I felt about Love Live! in the long run. The friendships, relationships, and love I've seen Love Live! brew within the community made me want to contribute to that positive effect. I loved it so much, I wanted to give back.

And here I am today! I joined many Love Live! centric groups, volunteered my time to some, and eventually began to make it a habit. Helping out in various communities within the franchise has helped me be able to tone my social skills, learn to handle new situations, work in a team setting and contribute valuable thoughts and ideas back to everyone who gave me so much (whether they knew it or not). Today I offer most of my spare time giving back to the Love Live! fanbase that it's become a reason I can enjoy my day sometimes. Seeing everyone so happy for whatever reason, feeling as if they have a voice that can be heard, the overall sense that loving this franchise to bits is acceptable- speaks out so much. Everyone truly matters and this franchise wouldn't be as impressive as it is without the fans carrying it so far with their passion.

Idol Story is a new chapter for my Love Live! Story, and I'm happy to embark on it with you all. 💜 Let's write this new phase of our story together and make it count~!

hi! this is my first post here but i really felt like the "what's your love live story?" event was a perfect place to jump off from! it all started about 2 years ago. i wasn't going through the best time, with failing grades and bullying in school, so i really needed something else to get invested into. i had heard a decent amount about love live over the years, since i spent time in anime and rhythm game communities, so i went on the google play store and downloaded school idol festival. i don't want to make this all about ruby, but... i immediately fell in love with her character. she was the starting girl i picked in game, and just from reading the stories and seeing what she said on the home screen she helped me stay connected to the world of love live. i didn't know how to do much (it was my first gacha game of any sort), but reading the aqours stories and playing the songs really made me happy and gave me something good to do when my life wasn't too good. nowadays, i have to say... i'm a BIT addicted. my comfort from sif led to me buying a ruby nesoberi, and then some love live rubber straps, and them more nesoberis... and at this point i have a pretty decent you and ruby ita bag, a hanayo bag in progress, and uh... 13 nesoberis. yeah... but they all make me so happy, and talking to other people who also love love live makes me really happy! so i owe a lot to these girls, even if it isn't as much as some do. i'm truly grateful that i found them :) i added a picture of one of my ruby nesos that i took at a cat cafe! i hope you like it :)

My LoveLive! Story was started back in September 2017. I was watching random anime videos on youtube, and then suddenly You Watanabe appears as youtube thumbnail from my favorite channel. It was a QnA video, and somebody asked: "What is your favorite anime?" Then they said, it was LoveLive! and LoveLive! Sunshine. As a newbie anime fan (Only have watched: SAO, K-on, and Angel Beats) so I added it to my anime watchlist.

I watch LoveLive! Sunshine first. I was very confused with the story back then. So I decided to rewatch it after I finished my pre-final test (I was in 3rd grade in Middle school). After two months, I realized I should watch Love Live! first. And then I become addicted to LoveLive!

Why I choose Yohane and Shizuku as my best girl? Yohane's personality is the same as mine. Her voice in her solo song "In This Unstable World" was amazed me. While Shizuku has taken my heart because of her song, "Anata No Risou No Heroine." The lyrics are touched my heart. And I loved her character, it was very cute.

That's it from me, and enjoy the wallpaper I made when I was bored.

Love Live! means a lot to me since when I first knew about it...actually I started to get interested and joined the fandom on Love Live! back in 2015 and the first school idol I've known was Umi since I saw a post on my facebook about love live,,so what I did was I just ignored it because back then I have different interests and my animes was only magical girls since I love magical girls, and that one week that love live was raiding my feed, and actually I got a very much interested because of the design of the clothes, cuteness of the characters and most importantly because of friendship, love, and talent! and I also gained the massive love for school idols. And I started to search about Umi and love live, BUT! Umi wasn't my first best girl, it was Nico since I firstly searched the school idol's names and red a lot of information about them including facts and other stuff, and I continuously got addicted on love live and started watching half of the anime but I didn't much finished all of it since of some matters and the rest..I got into the game and of course I was really excited to play the game and setted Nico as my Main Idol, and I said to myself...I would just read the normal stories of μ's in the game instead since I don't have time because of issues. Then as I grow older, my whole life changed because of love live, everyday I would be very excited to play events when I go home from school and loving love live as a whole, and also love live contributed a lot in my life since then, and I was really proud of having time to get to know love live, which its the thing that will make me a better and a much more confident person and everyday I am very inspired to do outfit making because of love live as well. As love live sunshine came, I have my best girl Ruby, and the anime was quite the best since I finished watching it, over all, love live sip and sunshine gave me a lot of life lessons through my steps in life and thought me how to value my friends because they are very important and they also gave me the huge inspiration in both fashion designing and various arts and I will never ever regret love live in my life since its a massive part of me..and even if I'm not that productive to buy merchandise, I would always put love live in my heart. I, thank love live and its creators for making me for who I am today! ~ Btw here is a little artwork of mine of Ruby! <3

This is probably my first and maybe last post who knows. I'll just use it as an introduction about myself. Hey my name is jrlk15/div3ci (you can just choose how you want to call me) I've been in and out of the fandom for a while but I'm sure I'm dedicated to this now. The inky reason why I'm here now is because of the nijigasaki girls. They are my favorite out of the three and it's impossible to decide which is my favorite girl because they are all such good characters. I started getting into love live when I first found it on crunchyroll around 4-5 years ago and knew about the multitude of things said about love live. I was instantly hooked and drug down into the hell when I used to watch anime a lot. A whole lot has happened before I temporarily left for the first time. I still loved the girls and songs but the community was the killer. Now I'm back and ready to try to interact with the community and spread positivity everywhere to all fans so nobody has to experience toxicity in this great community now.

Oh, Love Live! where and who would I be without you? I was introduced to Muse as they were disbanded back around 2013/2014? When I saw my younger cousin playing a game on her phone and the music reminded me of VOCALOID (please keep in mind I was like... 13 at the time LOL). She explained to me what the game, characters, and story was and soon enough I was hooked. Meeting and interacting with all of the characters was a dream to me and kept me some form of company on some pretty dark times.

I was excited to meet AQUORS more than Muse because I could grow with them from the beginning. Low and behold I realized a certain girl had the EXACT same birthday as me -- Watanabe You! I knew I had to make her my best girl and she didn't make it too difficult for me to fall head over heels for her! I have been cosplaying her and decorating my shrine and ita bags for her for about 2 to 3 years now and I don't plan to stop anytime soon.

Now, with All Stars I am still in a little bit of a hazes since I understand 0 Japanese but I am so excited to meet our girls on a translated server! Also, I may not know ton, but Ayumu is very cute, has a wonderful voice, and is also best girl uwu

How it all started hm?

Well I first came into contact with Love Live around 2013 when I saw some screencaps on tumblr. From the little I knew I declared my best girls as Nico and Kotori. I even downloaded the game but soon uninstalled it because I was terrible lmao.

Fast forward to 2017, when some friends kept talking about Love Live and I decided to try again. With the little knowledge I had from 2013, I picked Nico as my started and got super confused about who Aqours were "Wait where's Nico and the others?" I asked them. Little did I know how that game would change my life...

Meeting Aqours, Ruby instantly caught my eye and stuck as my best girl until now. Her beautiful eyes caught my attention and after reading about her I just fell in love even more and now she's my beautiful daughter who I'm so proud of! Growing from just being "Dia's little sister" to a strong idol who's so talented and brave! Of course she still has her shy side but that's what makes her so special and sweet! Actually my second UR overall in the game was hers!

After then I started noticing Maki and she climbed to the top. I always thought she was really pretty but after I idolized her Natsuiro Egao de 1, 2, Jump! card I was just amazed over how gorgeous she was??? Then I started to pay more attention to her side stories and I loved how sassy and “done with everything” she was and idk something about her just made me love her

And then I moved to the anime and I already loved her so much I was so excited to see her animated and when Honoka found her playing Aishiteru Banzai it was such a magical moment!! (I might have cried)

When I turned 18, my cake was Maki themed!

Also my twitter handle and carrd url is in her honor! (Melody of Promise is her initial UR's name!)

Now both of them are two of my favorite characters in the world and I couldn't be happier.

I know merch doesn't make anyone a bigger fan but I just love to have my best girls with me! Specially Maki's manjuu and Ruby's neso which I can squeeze and hug whenever I'm feeling worse

I talk about them all the time on my twitter! Maki's thread | Ruby's thread

I like to make special posts for their birthdays too! Maki's birthday | Ruby's birthday

I also really love Nozomi, Eli, Honoka, Nico, Yoshiko and Hanamaru!!

In 2018 I cosplayed Nico for the very first time! Every since I got to know her in 2013 and all the memes and posts I used to see that I knew I wanted to cosplay her and now she's one of my favorite cosplays and people even recognize me for her!!

Last year around october I lost my account which made me super sad, but I got a fresh start since a friend gave me a starter with Ruby's Christmas UR! And now I managed to got so many beautiful cards of my best girls!

I hope SIFAS blesses me the same way!!

I think this is getting long enough but summing up

I've been in the fandom for around 3 years now and it has made me so happy! I treasure every single moment I've had with these girls From crying with the anime and final live, to cheering for Aqours as they climbed their way to become number 1. From being frustrated for not getting a card to screaming and crying of joy for soloing a favorite. From not even being able to pass the tutorial to now playing a brand new game with amazing new features!

And now I get to see Nijigasaki girls from the start and I can't wait what the future holds for them!

I've met so many incredible friends thanks to Love Live and I couldn't be more thankful

I deal with depression and anxiety and my best girls calm me down so much! Whenever I'm feeling stressed out or sad I just look at them or play one of the games a little and feel calmer! I'm super happy I got to join this amazing fandom! Thank you for everything Love Live! ♡

Hello everyone! I saw people introducing themselves, so I decided to do the same, nice to meet you! A few of you might know me from SukuTomo, but i never really introduced myself there so this is new for me!

My name is Mikan and I'm a 19-year old german-spanish boy from Brandenburg in Germany. I'm currently studying civil engineering at a University in Dresden and I really enjoy maths as well as drawing. Other than that, my hobbies include Anime and cartoons, playing the saxophone, photography, video/mobile games and caring for my 4 guinea pigs. I'm currently also secretly planning to write fanfiction in the future, but atm I'm too anxious to do that just yet.

There's a ton of stuff i'm into, so here is a very condensed list!

I first got into LL in march of 2015. I started watching the muse anime and was happy to hear that there was a phone game too, so I installed that about three weeks later. My phone was extremely tiny though (about 3.7 inches), so I had a lot of trouble with all the buttons ingame.. My best girl at that time was Hanayo, but it changed around a lot in the early days, I was also really fond of Umi and Nico. My first memories of the game are how I solo'd Maki's setsubun event card, my first 4 SRs where three of them were tricolor Nicos (Fairytale, Maid and NewYear) and my first UR, Mermaid Nozomi. I didn't really know what URs were back then and just didn't realize that she was a UR for like a month...

I played for about a year (though I could only play hard, expert seemed to much of a challenge back then) and then I went to study abroad and kinda forgot about the game. One day, a preview of the Aqours Haregi-cards appeared on my dashboard and I remembered that game. I re-installed (on a bigger phone this time!!!) and started clearing my first experts and master songs. I also started a JP-account and fell in Love with Kanan after seeing her Job-UR! Shortly after, I also watched the Aqours anime and got really invested in Riko and Ruby too, so now these three are best three Aqours girls. For Muse, I rediscovered my Love for Hanayo as well as Nico and was surprised to find out that Honoka was approaching the top three as well!

On december 4th, 2017 I sadly lost my EN account to transfer issues. I tried getting it back but there were some problems with KLAB, so I gave up and JP became my only account. Today, I'm a glad owner of a Rank 393 Account with close to 60 URs, teams that can get into Top2000 in score ranking as well as tons of cards of my best girls! (For Riko, I'm only missing two SRs and 1 SSR for completion, though there are still a few URs I need).

I started SIFAS on launch day and currently run a 6 UR -3 SR-team. My main cards are Maki, Initial Yoshiko and Eli and I'm able to S-Rank almost all the hard songs. My current goal is to finally get Kanans and Rubys Initial UR, I only have Riko so far.

Thanks for reading and hello to you! I'm super introverted and usually by myself, so I always appreciate people reaching out to me, I have not made any friends I talk to on the internet since about 2015 ^^"

Idol Story Intro time...? Hi! I'm Vastra! Vas for short. I've been into Love Live for like 5-6 years. Every single day; I'm happier and happier to be apart of this community. My best girl of all time is Eli!

I'm currently working 2 part time retail jobs to make ends meet, but I also do commissions so please HMU if you're interested! I play a lot of Minecraft and League of Legends on the side.

I'm so excited to make new friends and share more wonderful memories with everyone in the Love Live! community! ♡

My Love Live! Story...

My username is LWentworth8567 and this is my Love Live! Story. It actually goes back to 2011… I was anime watching and found Idolm@ster was getting an anime. I heard and love the songs and was excited for it. That sparked the fuel for idol anime in me. (This set up was why I would hook in hard to Love Live! so I have to start there!) However, it would lay dormant for a while… waiting for January 6, 2013. The day that Love live started it’s anime. By this time I had my second mark as well… as after hearing the opening to A Certain Scientific Railgun I began to enjoy Fripside. Obviously, you know who I started with! (Hint it’s why she’s my best girl; she got the hooks in me to introduce me to all of the girls!) Then at one of the two Magfests (2015 we think), I went to they were selling Love Live! figures! I found one of Eli and bought her then. (I tried to look at old youtube vlogs to find it but I couldn’t but my girlfriend confirmed as we egged it in our things to get it home safe!) This is where there is a long time skip. Sunshine came out I didn’t watch it immediately as I was watching other things and trying to get things in order so... their story would wait. In the meantime, I would pick up Idolm@ster 2 and also get some Aikatsu! cards for my girlfriend and myself putting the love of idols harder inside! I also binged on K-On as well during this time gap. However, I would eventually catch up and watch the anime in around 2018 in a lull period. During this time I was also watching Aikatsu! with my girlfriend and with Idolm@ster anime well out now… It was time! I met the future cinnamon roll that would soon be important to me… In one month after I got news… My girlfriend was moving away. Now, this was out of our control but it dropped me hard.

(This is more specific than the one on schoolido.lu as last time I hit the cap! Oops!)

This led me to try to dull the pain by picking up another Idol game… Love Live School Idol Festival! I started with Eli and then Nozomi also took me in giving me presents including Eli being my first UR and Nozomi my first IDOLIZED UR! Both of them sit on my main team so Nozomi often pops up to say hi to people! However, soon Ruby would try to enter my life and secure the fandom for all of the Love Live! Cast. You can see the whole story on the links I’ll include but the short version is… I tended to win her cards and when I was down she would be there to make a loud Ganbaruby! It would get better soon as she and her sister Dia with her voice being the former Yellow Buster (yay Sentai!) would begin to really help! I entered the 2018 Indie Game Making Contest for my fourth time and decided with my team to make a Sentai based game which ended up drifting away from the idea but I watched a lot of sentai! This included mega-ranger and Go-Busters and yes… Seeing Arisa Komiya on TV! A month later now invested heavily in the game I got my Christmas gift from my Girlfriend. Ruby and Dia Azora Jumping Heart figures! I also got a Ruby in her swimsuit Gashapon egg. During this month I was really in deep. My wake up song was (and still is) Water Blue New World. My backgrounds and lock screens are Ruby and Dia… and I was in. Then one day I wanted to remake my teams… However I wanted a different view and sorting ideas so I joined Sukutomo on May 24, 2019. About a year and 12 days after Starting SIF I got closer to the community by a step.

I played and enjoyed the game still getting my favorite Ruby card idolized into my favorite costume and promised You the one I scouted on my birthday, (as well as Shuka Saito! Funny thing though; our birthdays are only different by one number she’s 96 I’m 86… kind of funny!) Which is ALSO the same set she would be idolized as soon as I can? Then came Ruby’s birthday… Ruby opened my heart and brought me to the community and also became close and has taken her spot in ALL my teams with at least one good UR! (Smile is School Unity and Dear God card, Pure is her birthday and worldwide poster girl & cool is I Love Everyone!) I decided I would wish her a happy birthday and do a fan award entry for her. In full surprise, K-lab chose my tweet and my video editor who was watching the episode while I was working called me and said JUMP INTO K-LAB GAME STATION NOW! This is where the love flowed… the passion I shared creating both the tweet and Sukutomo post… and the warm reception it got made me feel welcome. It let me take one step closer and so I joined the SIT:Dash!! server and now to today… where I am finally finishing this post… here on Idol Story.

So I guess you could say… I really entered the fandom recently though the potential was always there! I never really talk that much about idol anime because most are still in Japan and a lot of my friends are unaware so… I usually talk about the ones that came over that people know. In fact, in a friend’s chat, I dropped a Honoka honking a horn meme when everyone was honking and no one got it… So having some people to enjoy the show with especially with All Stars coming out helps a lot! I guess Love Live brought so many gifts I can’t say what it means to me because I feel I would leave something precious out… I don’t really have a best girl because… all of them have helped in some way shape or form. In fact, my best girl lineup is the order I got close to them… However, I appreciate all of them and the race if there is one is millimeters as they all shine brightly in my eyes. I guess you can also count this as my introduction to the site as it really said everything. I’ll be playing All Stars as soon as I can! Also, yes… I still enjoy idol anime and everything.

The fan activity and the response I gave which is a BTS of it and a bit of my brief history is on my Sukutomo page and I did link it in my profile if you want to read. I can’t really draw nor do art so I won’t be sharing artworks but writing has been strong for me and I will enjoy looking at the community’s fine artwork! Until then see you here, in the discord, in SIF or on Sukutomo!

~LWentworth8567

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!

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