'Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukou-kai' TV Anime Announced

The Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukou-kai First Live "with You" concert announced a new television anime for the franchise on Sunday. The new anime, titled Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukou-kai (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club), will be based on a new set of idols from the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS rhythm game.

Idol Cast
Ayumu Uehara: Aguri Oonishi (Shoumetsu Toshi)
Kasumi Nakasu: Mayu Sagara (Idol Memories)
Shizuku Osaka: Kaori Maeda (Back Street Girls: Gokudolls)
Karin Asaka: Miyu Kubota (Uchi no Ko no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai.)
Ai Miyashita: Natsumi Murakami (Aikatsu Stars!)
Kanata Konoe: Akari Kitou (Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu)
Setsuna Yuki: Tomori Kusunoki (Assassins Pride)
Emma Verde: Maria Sashide (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!)
Rina Tennoji: Chiemi Tanaka (Sakura Quest)

A 4-koma manga by Hito Miyako launched on the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS official website last year. The serialization moved to Dengeki G's website on July 23 and is published every Tuesday.

Love Live! is a project between animation studio Sunrise, music label Lantis, and Kadokawa's Dengeki G's magazine. It debuted in 2010, with the single Bokura no Live Kimi to no Life by μ's. The franchise has since spawned multiple adaptations including anime, manga, light novels, games, and live concerts. Sunrise produced two seasons of Love Live! School Idol Project in 2013 and 2014, which centered around μ's. A movie followed in 2015.

The project then began focusing on the nine-member unit Aqours, who made their debut single Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru kai? in November 2015. Love Live! Sunshine!!, which centers on Aqours, aired in July 2016, followed by a second season in October 2017. A movie, subtitled Over the Rainbow, opened in January of this year.

Official site: http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/nijigasaki/

Source: Anime Recorder

Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai on MAL