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~!