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School shutting
down? Singing in order to prevent it? It kind of reminds me of… you
know what I mean by that.
Love Live! School Idol Project opened up nicely
with the establishment of the situation and their plan on how to work things
out. Otonokizaka High School is closing down because the number of freshmen
applicants wasn't able to reach the quota. In order to attract more students to
apply and enroll to their high school, Kousaka Honoka (Nitta Emi) decided
that they should start a school idol.
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Music-genre is not
really my type of series unless they'll have some really interesting story or
drama or something that can catch my attention other than being moe or what. Love Live kind of reminded me of TARI TARI and K-ON!
because of the characters and that doesn't really look good for me since I
disliked both series.
The direction of the
series looks pretty generic (or maybe it's just me -_-). On the looks of
things, I'm thinking that it'll be similar to TARI
TARI. As the issue is being tackled - the girls' road to being an idol
group - the characters will be introduced per episode through certain things.
I'm pretty sure we're all used to this. SO I don't really think Love Live will be interesting, to be honest.
The characters look
pretty generic and too moe for me to enjoy. The three main girls that will head
this series will be Kousaka Honoka who kind of reminded me of TARI TARI's Miyamoto Konatsu minus the
blackmailing. She's very energetic and kind of focused on what she really wants
to do even though it seemed impossible. Sonoda Umi (Mimori Suzuko) has
got to be my fave among the three. She seems to be the serious type of
character that will keep the balance for the characterization. She seems to be
the type to look at the reality of things and probably dislikes risks or such.
Finally there's Minami Kotori (Uchida Aya) who
reminded me of TARI TARI's (again -_-)
Okita Sawa who's more of the supportive type of person who'll always be there
to fix things up and care more of others than herself.
Love Live is definitely visually good. The
character designs are really cute yet pretty generic. They're definitely
something you'll see in typical slice of life-moe series out there like K-ON! or maybe just plain slice of life like Hyouka in other worlds, their design is a good
reminiscent of KyoAni's style. The background art is really nice as well.
They're definitely pleasing to look at.
As an idol series,
it's no surprise that the animation is pretty flawless. I like the OP sequence
although the CGI at the ED sequence doesn't really please me -_- SO I'm pretty
much hoping that there won't be much CGI in here. The style done at the OP sequence
as well as the video of A-RISE is definitely what I'd like to see.
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The music is okay.
The BGMs are fitting for the scenes and they're pretty fancy. Both OP and ED
songs are pretty energetic which seems right for the series. As for the insert
song, I think that the best thing about it is the difference of the singers' voices.
They had really good combination and can be distinguish from each other. I
think that the best thing about this series' insert songs will be the
combination of the characters' voices when they sing.
Overall, I think
that Love Live will be a pretty decent
series. The story won't be that
interesting and the characters won't be as well but the songs are pretty nice
although not really topping AKB0048's :P
BUT hey, Love Live wins me in character
designs when compared to AKB0048. LOL.
