Love Live! Nijigasaki to say goodbye with three new films

On the official site for the "Love Live!" franchise, a promotional video for the first film in the "Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Final Chapter," which will end the anime adaptation of "Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club". The video confirms that the premiere is scheduled for September 6 in theaters in Japan, while the other two films are pending a release date.

This new project announced in June 2023 will serve as the conclusion of this sub-franchise after its debut in October-2020. According to the statement, the first film will be set in Okinawa and the promotional video shows the group preparing for the School Idol GPX, an event in which they will participate.

On the other hand, "Love Live! "Nijigasaki High School Idol Club" is a sub-franchise of the "Love Live!" multiverse, born from the video game "Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars". in 2017. Unlike μ's and Aqours, they are a group of individual school-idols who compete with each other to keep their school afloat. Precisely for this reason they do not have a name as a group, and are simply known as the "Nijigasaki Academy School-Idols Club".

In addition to its obvious involvement in the music world, Sunrise's anime adaptations include two seasons in Fall-2020 (October-December) and Spring-2022 (April-June), totaling twenty-six episodes, as well as the "Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Next Sky" in June-2023, and a comedic spin-off titled "Nijiyon Animation".

Voice cast

Hinaki Yano as Yuu Takasaki
Aguri Onishi as Ayumu Uehara
Akina Homoto as Lanzhu Zhong
Akari Kitou as Kanata Konoe
Shuu Uchida as Mia Taylor
Natsumi Murakami as Ai Miyashita
Chiemi Tanaka as Rina Tennouji
Kaori Maeda as Shizuku Ousaka.
Mayu Sagara as Kasumi Nakasu
Miyu Kubota as Karin Asaka
Maria Sashide as Emma Verde
Moeka Koizumi as Shioriko Mifune
Coco Hayashi as Setsuna Yuki

Production Equipment

Tomoyuki Kawamura (Ao Haru Ride, Taimadou Gakuen 35 Shiken Shoutai, Mitsuboshi Colors) is in charge of directing the project at Sunrise Studios.
Jin Tanaka (Tokyo Ghoul, Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha, Oshi no Ko) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
Takumi Yokota (Mitsuboshi Colors, Nami yo Kiitekure, Senyoku no Sigrdrifa) is in charge of character design and animation direction, with Kerorira in charge of visual design.
Naoki Endou (Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo Season 2) is in charge of composing the soundtrack.

Love Live! Nijigasaki to say goodbye with three new films

Synopsis of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club

The Nijigasaki Institute is known for its various subjects and the freedom they give to students. Second-year student Yuu Takasaki has been drawn to the charms of school-idols, so she knocks on the door of the School-Idol Club with her friend, Ayumu Uehara. Sometimes friends, sometimes rivals, the members of this club each bring their own thoughts and motivations to the group.

Source: Comic Natalie