Review of Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow

This should have been the second season. I'm baffled that this whole thing was shoved into a movie instead of being the plot of the entire second season, which it could have easily accommodated (and the second season instead being a bland repetitive plot with no originality). The art and music are, of course, stellar and the characters are at their most extreme - which is good, because that's when Aquors feels most original, rather than their usual day to day not-quite-knock-offs of the Muse cast. Yoshiko and Mari get a lot of spotlight here and that's fair, because they're some of the most interestingand original of the crew, unlike Hono- I mean Chika. The side characters are meaningless and I don't really understand their introduction but they're in the movie so little that I don't care. In all honesty, though, this movie is the thing to watch if you want the best of the Aquors experience without wasting your time on the bad pacing of their two seasons, the repetitive nature of plotlines, and at least it isn't a direct copy of the Muse movie, unlike the rest of the Aquors series. My hopes for the next group of girls being in any way new or original now that another anime has been confirmed isn't very high.