Love Live! Superstar!! (2025)

Veronin

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With Superstar being the franchise's fourth and latest adventure, it's understandable that some may be reluctant to watch once more a series seemingly treading familiar roads. Coming less than a year after the third Love Live series, Nijigasaki, I was worried of the fatigue that may come from yet another shuffling of the cast.

Those fears, however, were misguided.

Superstar revealed itself not just as an excellent anime in its own right, but also the most fresh the franchise has been in nearly a decade. Contrary to expectations, Superstar is actually a slice-of-life anime first, and an idol anime second. Where the previous series opted for ...

Nexis09

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When I was first watching love live superstar, I writ a review on how good I thought it was. Since then, it has managed to maintain that quality throughout all 12 episodes and has now became my favorite in the love live franchise and I'm going to now explain why it is worth your time:

-New to love live, should I watch the others first?-

No, you do not need to watch any other seasons and I actually believe that this is the best place to start if you want to get into the franchise

-Art and animation-

I've seen many shows and I am quite the fan of ...

rrakku

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Like how the wider society used to judge anime fans as nerds that like obscure Chinese cartoons, the wider anime community looks at Love Live! fans and idol fans alike with the same weird gaze. There’s this stigma of “I’m not one of those idol weebs”, but I reckon this too will soon fall to the wayside, as the quality of idol shows becomes harder and harder to gloss over.

I was one of the doubters before watching Love Live! Superstar!!, and the only reason I started it was because of a clip of Tang Ke Ke’s tantrum. The irony of a Chinese heroine requesting freedom ...

rehoshi

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The Love Live franchise and the series that it produces has always been a coin flip to whether it's going to end up being mediocre or great. To name names, Sunshine falling short of its predecessor and the School Idol Project's lackluster finale. If you were to ask me what side of the coin did Love Live Superstar land on, I would confidently be able to tell you that it landed on the right side.

Superstar is a great entry show to the Love Live franchise. It barely has any connections to the previous installments, making it an easy and clean entry to just turn on ...

SingleH

Mixed Feelings

BallisticRiot

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Preliminary (4/12 eps)

Let me start this off by saying that I do have bias toward Idol anime and Love Live on the whole because I do really like the series. Also, I don’t score/assess anime entirely in a vacuum, I compare them amongst other anime of the genre.
That being said, Love Live Superstar is absolutely excellent thus far and I think this is a must watch for people who at least enjoy the series a little bit, or enjoy idol anime in general.

Characters - 9/10:

Right of the bat the characters design wise are great. Love Live never has a shortage of unique designs for its ...

PandaUwU

Mixed Feelings

Superstar is the 4th installment of the beloved and long-running Love Live series. It is easy to follow and does not reference previous parts, allowing both old and new fans to enjoy it.

This installment goes back to its roots, arguably simpler than the base of its roots were. Kanon gets picked up by Keke to start a school idol club, but complications arise when the student council president tries to stop them; the standard Love Live stuff.

The special part about it this time is how Kanon acts in opposition to the other main characters of previous installments of Love Live. Kanon has stage fright. This ...

Grim_Eyes

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Preliminary (4/12 eps)

I've never completed Love Live. I watched episodes from each of the seasons, including Nijigasaki, but I didn't like them. There were too many characters and they weren't interesting to me at all.

Because of this, I was tentative to pick up this series. But, I did, and I can say, from someone who doesn't like the previous instalments of Love Live, this is a really good series.

The story is about girls being idols. What more can you ask for?

The art is so pretty and stunning. The character designs are great.

I love the music in this series. Everything in it is a bop, especially the ...

NotRoyce4

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Story: 7

Cute girls doing cute things!! The story reuses some overused elements from earlier Love Live series and there are one or two weird plot elements, but the formation of this series' school idol group, Liella!, is satisfying. The main characters are all first years, and the ending of this season sets up subsequent seasons to show Liella!'s journey after the first year. This would be the first Love Live series to show more than one year of a group's journey, so I'm excited to see what happens next.

Art: 9

The scenery and backgrounds in this show are extremely detailed and colorful, and the quantity of ...

Naneo

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This is such a refreshing anime from Love Live franchise. For you who doesn't know, we usually get a lot of main character in the anime. But this one is different, there are only 5 MC here. And because of that, every character can have their development perfectly and didn't look rushed. I'm not saying all the previous anime is bad, it just feels something different.

Story 10/10
As always, even though Love Live Superstar is a music anime doesn't mean they throw off the story. The story is also as amazing as their music. Heartwarming and sometimes emotional, the story is a mix beetween those two. ...

Jaikeis

Mixed Feelings

Love Live! Superstar is a solid show production-wise, but its position as the fourth separate continuity in the franchise only highlights the increasingly formulaic nature of Love Live's writing.

The show starts out promising enough. Kanon is our now apparently archetypal spunky orange-headed protagonist. Unlike Honoka or Chika though, she gets to have real character flaws. She's grumpy, she sulks, she talks back to her family. She loves to sing, but she has struggled for years freezing up in front of an audience. When we meet her, she's convinced she'll never make it as a performer. There's potential for a focused, if rather well-worn, character ...

Ginn_0

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Preliminary (5/12 eps)

When Lovelive superstar came out, I wasn't interested because I'm not a lovelive or idol fan. I thought it is going to be generic idol anime which indeed it is, but one thing that caught my eyes is this Lovelive anime has a character who speaks Chinese and very good Chinese, which instantly gave me a boner to watch this.

Honestly, it was quite surprising and hilarious when the character is speaking Chinese. Because it is very rare in anime to have an anime character to speak a foreign language (except English). Secondly, it served as a purpose and identity of the character why she speaks ...

flowerscissors

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Love Live! Superstar!! is the fourth entry in the Love Live franchise, and as such, I was expecting that they might have started to run out of ideas. Luckily, that turned out not to be the case. This is the first Love Live! series to get its main run as a prime time broadcast, and I really felt all the special care and little details that went into making this a success. While Love Live! has always been fairly solid, Superstar not only lives up to the standard, but perhaps even surpasses its predecessors.

Even though it is part of a franchise, it is worth mentioning ...

MochizukiTomoya

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This anime is surely great and can be an option to start the franchise.
Not about winning after the struggle like Muse [School Idol Project], not a depressing story like Aqours [Sunshine!], nor Nijigasaki who has tons of member which truly represents a school club. Superstar is different, more like slice of life-ish idol story with only 5 members in it. That's what I thought when watching this show for like the first half season (?)

Let's talk about this first half that I was excited for. First thing you will notice is how good Sayurin's [Date Sayuri] voice when singing. The anime will let you listen ...

zokoi

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Preliminary (8/12 eps)

So, I would like to reviews this in 2 ways: for new fans first watching and for old fans of the franchise.

First, for new fans: the overall score would be around 8+/10.
The story is nothing too special, but it makes good use of the characters to tell a charming story. Also, the story is a standalone so you don't have to watch other series of the franchise to enjoy it 100%. Moving on, the characters themselves are pretty diverse and relatable, and watching them interact is very fun, amusing and heartwarming!

Now, as an anime about idol, the important thing here is the music and ...

Moemoe96

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Superstar is a step down from the previous love lives. What do I mean by "a step down"? Unlike your previous love lives where there are altleast 9 girls, here we get 5. The story and plot is way more down to earth and simple. The 5 girls are all freshmen unlike from previous LLs where we ususally get three per year level. it kinda gives off this fresh and new feeling even though superstar is quite similar to the previous installations. Despite of it being a step down, Superstar might be the best one out of all. crazy am i right?

Before we actually review ...

PhalanxOtakuGod

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Thank you for joining me on this trip. I have no words to explain everything that this anime was able to convey to me, so I will do it with numbers, 10/10.

Everything is perfect, I have no complaints, not to mention that they have not confirmed the second season of course.

The best love live of all time.

Tiny stars! <3

Now I will explain why this anime is the best ever:

Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke, Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke,Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke,Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke,Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke,Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke,Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke,Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, Keke,Chisato, Ren, Sumire, Kanon, ...

i-like-this

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Loved it! Superb-star!!

Love Live! Superstar!! has absolutely no right being this good. I've personally never watched any of the Love lives beloved as they are by it's apparently huge fanbase (the more you know), but I couldn't be happier to have Superstar be my jumping on point. School idol/moe club shows are a dime a dozen so it takes something really special to stand out from the crowd (something 2021 falls idol shows are struggling to do at the moment), but Superstar shines above the crowd like... well... a superstar!

Firstly, the animation is absolutely stunning. Characters move smoothly against densely detailed, information packed backgrounds. ...

Cherith

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Gusokumushi

Gusokumushi

Gu-soku soku soku Gusokumushi.

That's it. That's my review for this masterpiece. I have nothing more to say. Just Gusokumushi every day, all day long. When you listen to this, believe me, this is what's gonna happen in your next dream (or nightmare.)

Have a good anime, a good night, and a great rest of life.

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Christa54

Mixed Feelings

Well I'm starting this review by saying that I used to be a huge fan of this franchise and series.

With that in mind, I have to say that Love Live Superstar has to be the most wasted Love Live yet. Most of my struggles with this series are about how they mishandled so many situations, Love Live is also known for having some musical moments that will melt your heart, but aside of the animation (that we know that it only gets better and better), none of the performances transmitted anything to me really, I would only rescue one (which I will not say because ...